Google's Android mobile OS is touch from the bottom up. So wouldn't you expect Google's ChromeOS to be touchable as well?
Google is finally learning from the mistakes of its previous Chromebooks and pricing its latest model far more competitively.
Netbooks, once the cheap portables spotted at coffee shops everywhere, have become so uncool that they are near extinction. Case in point: Dell is saying sayonara to its consumer netbook business.
Dell will stop producing its Inspiron Mini line of …
Computer manufacturer Asus is betting there’s still a pot of gold to be found in the netbook market, despite decline due to growing competition from tablet computing devices.
The company will team up with Intel on a $200-$250 light-weight netbook …
Dell CEO Michael Dell probably doesn’t mind the success of iPad. According to market analyst IHS iSuppli, strong iPad sales in the fourth quarter of 2010 helped Dell to overtake Acer as the number 2 PC maker in the world.…
Goodbye netbook, hello tablet.
Taiwanese computer maker Acer is phasing out its netbook series of ultra-small computers with the forthcoming release of new Android tablets, which are due in the first half of 2011, according to a Computerworld report.
Acer’s …
The lines between work and play have blurred in the always-on, digital online age. Smartphones, netbooks, tablets, and other gadgets make it much easier to do work while you’re supposed to be on the run or taking it easy. And …
During Hewlett-Packard‘s analyst conference call today, the company acknowledged that strong sales of rival tablet computers (such as the Apple iPad) have hurt sales of notebook computers.
HP hit its overall earnings, but the growth was driven by enterprise growth, …
Intel is debuting new members of its Atom family of microprocessors today that can be the brains of everything from low-power laptops to razor-thin netbooks.
To show off the new technology at the Computex 2010 trade show in Taiwan, Intel …
AT&T is about to make it more difficult for new iPhone users to break their contracts. The Wall Street Journal is reporting that the carrier will be raising its early termination fee (ETF) for smartphones and 3G netbooks from $175 …
While Steve Jobs may claim he is taking time off from the day-to-day business of running Apple, that certainly does not mean he isn’t guiding the company’s direction. Jobs is still actively involved with business decisions, reports the Wall Street …
[Update: Since posting this story, we've had a lot of inquiries from readers, with questions ranging from whether Android is ready for laptops and full-scale PCs, why Android can't rely fully on Linux, and so on. See our …
