ASUS is putting a lot of thought into merging its Eee PC netbook and notebook departments both to fight the credit crunch by decreasing management costs and also to help increase efficiency.
Market sources told the DigiTimes that Asustek has already sent out documents outlining the merger plan to key personnel in both departments and that [...]
Short battery lifespans in netbooks are a thing of the past, at least in the case of the MSI Wind U115. EEE-PC.de have been running battery tests of the new U115 and the results have been pretty amazing.
Running a test in Battery Eater Classic they found the U115 had a battery life of 13 hours [...]
Australian technology entrepreneur Ruslan Kogan, known for his boasts and little in the way of follow-throughs, recently claimed he was developing a netbook and even asked people online what they’d like to see in it.
Naturally there was skepticism on how far this would go but amazingly enough it looks like he is coming through and [...]
Yesterday we reported that the mysterious, elusive Apple netbook looked more and more like a possibility, with some juicy new info emerging that pointed towards some kind of release in the second half of 2009.
Reuters adds more fuel to the fire today with news from a source that reveals Apple has ordered a range of [...]
Back in November, details emerged that Packard Bell was planning to release a very standard netbook named the “dot” in the UK. With Packard Bell being a subsidary of Acer, the “dot” was a rebranded Acer Aspire 10.
Sadly (or not) the “dot” never hit shelves in January as intended and SlashGear now reports that Packard [...]
Could ARM CPUs become the dominant processors in the Intel-dominated netbook world soon? Robert Castellano, president of The Information Network, thinks so.
Castellano, who heads the market research and consulting firm, predicts that ARM-based processors will take market share from Intel’s Atom processors by 2012, with a 55% share.
He said that Atom will hole an 80% [...]
Analysts told us in December that we Apple would unveil netbooks in January at the MacWorld Conference and Expo. No such luck.
And yet the rumors have persisted and now fresh reports claim that Apple plans to roll out a touch screen netbook this year. All this after Steve Jobs said publically that Apple “don’t know [...]
Taiwan Mobile announced a self-branded netbook last week that it will bundle in deals with its 3.5G wireless services. Netbooknews.de has now discovered more information on the TaiwanMobile W101 that was on show at CeBIT ‘09 but largely unindentified.
The W101 has a 1.6GHz Intel Atom N270 processor, 512MB of RAM, an 8GB SSD rather than [...]
Orange and HP have united to offer HP computers, including the HP Mini 1000 netbook with 3G wireless capabilities, in Europe.
They will be promoted and distributed by Orange who will likely slash the prices on the Mini 1000 if customers agree to sign up for long-term mobile plans.
HP’s range will initially be offered by Orange [...]
Remember the mystery slim netbook by Acer that we talked about a fair bit last month?
The FCC has now posted a report of the model (hat tip: Netbook 3G) with more information and a set of photographs.
Both the Acer Aspire One AO530 and Acer Aspire One ZG8 are used as names in the report so [...]
