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Kivu's G-Five KTNO2 netbook sports ridiculous 'aerodynamic' design, could be the wind beneath your wings

Fri, Nov 13 | from Engadget
There are a lot of improvements we here at Engadget like to see in netbooks -- more SSD storage, higher-resolution screens, less flimsy construction -- but not a one of us put "greater aerodynamic lift" anywhere on our list. Someone at Kivu Technology Co. apparently did, as the company has l...

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Menq EasyPC E790 Wants You To Have A Netbook For $80

The Menq EasyPC E790 is currently running Windows CE, but the company has announced plans to push out a Google Android update in the next month and at a very reasonable $80. So what does $80 buy you these days? How about a 7 inch display that pushes out 800 x 480 pixels of resolution, a [...]
Fri, Nov 13 | from The Inquisitr

Qualcomm Enters Netbook Market

The Snapdragon ARM processor from Qualcomm is coming to Lenovo netbooks. The netbook will be available through AT&T, and is built around the 1GHz Cortex-A8 core. The system is being referred to as a smartbook due to the low power ARM chips that power them. The smartbook will run a custom L...
Fri, Nov 13 | from Overclockers Club

ARM netbook sells for $80

China-based Menq has launched a smartbook/mini-netbook that runs on an ARM9-based Samsung S3C2450 processor, and offers WiFi, Ethernet, SD storage, and a 7-inch 800 x 480 display. According to one review, the Menq EasyPC E790 costs only $80, and though it ships with Windows CE, can also...
Fri, Nov 13 | from Linux Devices

Manufacturer claims attractive brushed steel netbook is lighter when it is closed

The cheap and shoddy designs of early netbooks are mostly a thing of the past. The the thick and bulbous chassises, the tiny trackpads, the bizarrely bifurcated trackpad button placement, all have been swept away. Today’s netbooks are sexy, colorful and sleek, and make the earliest netbo...
Fri, Nov 13 | from Geek.com

Qualcomm demos Adobe Flash 10 on ARM-based netbook

Mobile phone service provider AT&T is going to supply customers with the first ARM-based netbook, according to Paul Jacobs, chairman and CEO of Qualcomm Inc. (San Diego, Calif.). Jacobs showed the Lenovo-made device to attendees at the company's investor day in New York Thursday (No...
Thu, Nov 12 | from EE Times Online

Lenovo making first ‘smartbook’ – a blend of smart phone, netbook

Get the latest news alerts: Follow LTW at Twitter. MORRISVILLE, N.C. – The development wizards at Lenovo have developed the first so-called “smartbook” – a device that larger than a smart phone and smaller than a netbook.
Thu, Nov 12 | from Local Tech Wire

Bluetooth®/1-Stream 802.11n Module targets netbook market.

Supplied on half-mini card, AR9002WB-1NGB enables array of simultaneous wireless applications on same notebook/netbook PC. Included AR9285 single-chip 1-stream 802.11n PCIe solution integrates MAC/baseband and radio transceiver as well as PA, low noise amp, and antenna switch, w...
Thu, Nov 12 | from ThomasNet Industrial News Room

Asus’ latest netbook is 11.6 inches, runs Windows 7

Ever since the Asus Eee PC 701 first came on the scene, introducing the computer world to the netbook form factor for the first time, Asus has experimented with their netbooks sizes. The first Eee PCs were 7 inch affairs, but they — like the ultra mobile notebooks that were their evolutionar...
Wed, Nov 11 | from Geek.com

OLPC switching to ARM, plans paper thin netbook

One Laptop per Child chairman Nicholas Negroponte told Xconomy that OLPC is prepping an ARM-based version 1.75 of its XO netbook while planning to release a "paper-thin" version 3.0 in 2012. Meanwhile, the Internet Archive is providing OLPC users with 1.6 million e-books, says the nonprof...
Fri, Nov 6 | from Linux Devices

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