Get ready now for netbooks in the enterprise
InfoWorld
Netbooks in the enterprise are coming, some observers believe. And whether it takes a year or five for netbooks to catch on in corporate America, it behooves IT managers to get ready sooner rather than having to clean up a mess later on. Re...
Google OS can start PC in 7 seconds
Express India
Google said the software will initially be available by the holiday season of 2010 on low-cost netbooks that meet Google’s hardware specifications, such as using only memory chips to store data instead of slower hard drives, the current sta...
Netbooks in the enterprise: Get ready
Network World
Netbooks in the enterprise are coming, some observers believe. And whether it takes a year or five for netbooks to catch on in Corporate America, it behooves IT managers to get ready sooner rather than having to clean up a mess later on.
What Chrome OS Means for Business
PC World via Yahoo! News
Today in Mountain View, Google held a press event to announce details of its upcoming Chrome OS. What it unveiled is an exciting new platform for Web computing that is aimed squarely at consumer netbooks, and has little relevance to busines...
Beyond The Anti-Virus Arms Race
Forbes
Forbes spoke with Chen about how that cloud system--along with the switch to netbooks and mobile devices--is disrupting the antivirus arms race. Forbes: The last time we spoke, about a year ago, you were very critical of the anti-virus indu...
Netbooks Shunned By Official Mac OS X 10.6.2 Release
Ars Technica
The fears of netbook users with an appreciation for Mac OS X have been confirmed this week with the release of the 10.6.2 update to Snow Leopard . Users of "hackintoshed" netbooks are now finding out the hard way that attempting to install...
Google's Chrome OS Will Be Optimized for Speed
NewsFactor via Yahoo! News
Google is showcasing how its Chrome OS will change the user experience when it launches before next year's holiday season. The new operating system will initially appear on netbook-style devices that will feature bigger keyboards than today...
ZDNet Holiday Tech Gift Guide 2009
ZDNet
Looking for top netbooks? We've got them. Searching for the perfect camcorder for Dad? We've got that, too. We've got GPS navigation devices, e-book readers, MP3 players, desktop computer hardware components and even the year's best iPhone ...
Snow Leopard no longer confined to the steppes of Apple's restricted ...
DailyTech
OS X hackers are threatening Apple's business model by give people the ability to build or buy OS X-driven "Hackintoshes" -- netbooks, notebooks, or PCs with third party hardware -- at a much lower price than Apple's slickly packaged, but p...
Special Report: Google gives a peek at Chrome OS
ZDNet
Dana Blankenhorn: ChromeOS is Google’s version of Linux for netbooks, much as Android is its Linux for handhelds. It is a version of Bill Gates’ nightmares from 15 years ago, as Netscape was rising, visions that led directly to the case of ...
Gadgets ASUS to Add NVIDIA Ion Graphics to Some Netbooks and Nettops
DailyTech
The first of the netbooks to hit the market were underpowered when it came to decoding most video, especially if that video was in HD resolution. This left users frustrated with choppy video playback or the outright inability to play some v...
Adobe Updates Acrobat.com, Releases Flash 10.1, AIR 2.0 Betas
eWeek
Flash Player 10.1 is also available for x86-based netbooks, and expected to be available across a broad spectrum of smartphones and other Internet-connected devices in 2010," Adobe said in a news release Nov.17. "Adobe AIR 2 builds on the s...
Netbooks 'not just a consumer fad'
The Register
Business keen on 'em too Canalys Mobility Forum Netbooks are just a fad. Punters are only buying them because they're cheap. According to market watcher Canalys, neither of these statements are true.…
Deep Discounts Should Make It a Very Tech-y Holiday
CNBC
Netbooks will be another hot seller. These portable, durable, lightweight PCs with reasonably strong processing power sell for nearly 20 percent of what a laptop did 10 years ago. In many ways, they’re almost in the field of impulse purchas...