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Will the Dell Mini launch on Thursday?
News Box.net makes OpenBox, an application for online file management that will be one of the preinstalled programs on the Dell Mini. Ever since Michael Dell was spotted toting a bright red ultraportable notebook around an industry conference earlier...
Tags: sharing, dell, ultraportable, michael dell
3 September 2008, 9:20
Orange bundles Eee PC with mobile broadband
News The 'connected laptop' packages include a cheaper-than-an-iPhone, £25-per-month consumer tariff offering the popular Asus Eee PC 900 mini laptop. Mobile network Orange has stepped up to iPhone-wielding rival O2, Apple's partner for the iPhone in...
Tags: windows vista, consumer, core, iphone
24 July 2008, 8:31
News.blog: Facebook's redesign goes live
News The facelift, which has been in the works for a while and was released on Sunday, will include an expanded Wall section that includes updates from a user's Mini-Feed. Social-networking site Facebook has unveiled its redesign.
Tags: facebook, redesign, navigation, clips
22 July 2008, 8:40
PC World stocking Atom mini laptop
News The UK computer-store chain PC World is claiming to be the first retail outlet in the country to offer a netbook using Intel's Atom processor. The Advent 4211, a close relative of the MSI Wind, went on sale on Friday for £280 -- around £40 cheaper...
Tags: intel, windows xp, laptops, viewing
8 July 2008, 8:50
News.blog: Facebook gets gender specific
News Members who haven't already will now be asked to specify a gender, for the purpose of refining the wording in News Feed and Mini-Feed stories. People who haven't selected what sex they are frequently get defaulted to the wrong sex entirely in Mini...
Tags: feed, mini, post, stories
30 June 2008, 9:13
News.blog: Facebook adds Mini-Feed comments
News Facebook has made it possible for members to leave comments on each others' 'mini-feeds' of activity, according to an announcement on Wednesday from the social network. The Mini-Feed, introduced in 2006 to initial shock and eventual acceptance, is...
Tags: friends, activity, feeds, feed
26 June 2008, 8:44
Asus Eee Box ready for August release
News Eee Box desktop version of its popular Eee PC mini laptop -- and it will include Windows XP, which has now been given a reprieve on some desktops, as well as Eee PC-type mini laptops. It will also have a gigabyte of RAM, an 80GB hard drive and...
Tags: linux, box, operating system, xp
23 June 2008, 9:09
News.blog: PSPs to get Google search
News Nonetheless, the company continues to force users to buy the much rejected Universal Media Discs (UMD), the mini DVDs that Sony built especially for the PSP, or hack the device with video converters. Sony will soon add a Google Internet search...
Tags: wi fi, upgrade, google, sony
17 June 2008, 9:20
Microsoft gives XP new life on low-cost desktops
News At the Computex trade fair in Taiwan this week, Microsoft said that, after offering Windows for mini laptops -- low-cost laptops intended for students and first-time PC customers in emerging markets -- it will also offer the operating system on...
Tags: pcs, desktops, xp, laptops
5 June 2008, 9:28
News.blog: Acer favours Linux for mini laptops
News Acer officially unveiled its entry into the low-cost mini laptop market, the Aspire One, on Tuesday. Plus, as Acer points out, Linux has a quicker boot time and can extend the battery life of tiny mini laptops like the Aspire One.
Tags: linux, market, laptops, develop
5 June 2008, 8:56
News.blog: Ubuntu readying version for mini laptops
News A version of the popular Ubuntu Linux operating system is coming later this year for mobile Internet devices and mini laptops. Canonical, the commercial sponsor of Ubuntu, said on Monday that it plans to demonstrate the new version, called Ubuntu...
Tags: devices, atom, remix, ubuntu
4 June 2008, 9:19
News.blog: Sony to u-turn on low-cost mini laptop?
News At the WiMax Expo in Taipei, contract manufacturer Quanta Computer showed a mini laptop based on Via's just-released design that will be out in the third quarter of this year. The mini laptop has an 8.9-inch screen, at least an 80GB hard drive...
Tags: names, hard drive, laptop, laptops
3 June 2008, 10:02
News.blog: Asus Eee Box details released
News Media card reader supporting: SD, SDHC, Mini SD, (microSD through adaptor); MMC, MMC plus, MMC4.x, RS MMC, RSMMC4.x (MMC mobile through adaptor); MS, MS PRO Word got out a little early yesterday morning regarding Asus's small Eee Box, which will be...
Tags: hard drive, box, linux, lan
3 June 2008, 9:47
News.blog: Intel to ship Atom for mini laptops
News Intel is ready to ship the latest edition of its Atom processor family, this time going after the emerging market for low-cost mini laptops.The N270 and N230 are processors designed for what Intel calls 'netbooks' and 'nettops', and the company...
Tags: processor, inch, family, intel
3 June 2008, 9:01
News.blog: Via opens up its mini-laptop design
News Chip designer Via Technologies unveiled its OpenBook Mini-Note reference design on Monday, in a move that throws some open source into its core business of developing chips for mobile devices. The OpenBook design aims to aid PC makers in creating...
Tags: devices, source, wi fi, market
30 May 2008, 9:03


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