Not your mother's Garmin or Nokia

Cisco recently announced plans to buy Pure Digital, maker of the popular Flip video camera. Nokia may make a netbook. Garmin is teaming up with Asus to create a cell phone.

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Garmin teams up with ASUSTek on new smart phones

Navigational device maker Garmin Ltd. said Wednesday it has entered into a "strategic alliance" with Taiwan-based Asustek Computer Inc. to develop and produce a co-branded line of feature-rich mobile phones.

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Review: Eee Laptop PC Shreds the Rules

Taiwanese computer parts maker Asus obviously didn't get the memo.

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New data from SquareTrade (one of the bigger warranty providers) says Asus and Toshiba have the least hardware malfunctions over 3 years, while one-in-four HP laptops are projected to experience problems. Oh, and crappy netbooks are worst of all.

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ASUS UK have announced three new laptops in their so-called UnLimited (UL) series, offering up to 12hrs battery life and processors from Intel's CULV platform.

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Rescuecom, a third-party computer repair firm, fielded the fewest support calls to repair Asus and Apple PCs on average, said David Milman, Rescuecom's CEO.

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The dream of owning a keyboard embedded with a full-blown PC running XP on an Atom N270 processor and 5-inch, 800 x 480 pixel touchscreen display/trackpad is nearly upon us.

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Apple's $1.21 billion, or $1.33 per diluted share, was posted on revenue of $8.16 billion, the best non-holiday quarter revenue and earnings in Apple's history, according to Peter Oppenheimer, Apple's CFO.

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AT&T announced on Tuesday that customers in Atlanta could get a type of compact PC called a netbook for just $50 if they signed up for an Internet service plan — an offer the phone company may introduce elsewhere after a test period.

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"Asus has proved that Netbooks that are 'netbook' priced don't have to look or feel cheap. The S101 combines form and function in a chassis that is uncomprosingly small. The good battery life and spacious keyboard allow for a comfortable user experience.

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Garmin and ASUSTeK Computer plan to release a new smartphone with navigation at the Mobile World Congress. The nüvifone M20 uses Windows Mobile 6.1 Professional, so it's not the rumored Android device from Garmin and ASUS.

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The image above shows a netbook Asus EEEPC 1000H running on Google's mobile operating system Android. Huh? You thought Android was for mobile phones, right? Well, as we've written before, Google is planning to use Android for any device — not just the mobile phones.

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There isn't much mystery to why a little-marketed computer known as the Eee PC has lately seized the top spot on Amazon's laptop best-seller list.

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The Open Handset Alliance just made a major score with 14 more members: AKM Semiconductor Inc., ARM, ASUSTek Computer Inc. (previously rumored), Atheros Communications, Borqs, Ericsson, Garmin International Inc., Huawei Technologies, Omron Software Co.

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Netbooks are all the rage at the moment, with Asus predicting that it will sell 5 million of its Asus Eee PC netbooks by the end of this year. However, one of the tricky aspects of netbooks is that they have much more limited hardware resources than larger, traditional notebooks.

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According to PC World, by the end of the day Amazon's top 10 list had ultra mobile notebook written all over it. Seven of the ten spots were taken by netbooks with the Eee PC 900 and Acer's Aspire One fighting over the top spot through out the day.

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The Asus bamboo notebook has been coming for quite some time and we've managed to dig up a few new pictures of it. We'd expect that Asus is now finally very close to launching it, at least if these pictures are anything to go by.

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Ah...Netbooks.

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Hardware makers Intel and ASUS have announced a new project, which the two companies say is designed to foster a "community-designed" PC. Check WePC.com for more info.

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Asus has admitted that Eee Box PCs released in Japan last week were infected with a virus. So far it would seem that the incident only affects systems sold in Japan, but that fact has not yet been confirmed by Asus.

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Today we have the base model in the N-Series – the N10. This uses an Intel Atom N270 processor rather than a Core 2 Duo, which means it's really a netbook rather than a laptop.

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Asus is accidentally shipping software crackers and PC Pro on the recovery DVDs that come with its laptops.

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What a difference a year makes. It was only 10 months ago when the first true netbook, the original Asus Eee PC 701, hit the market. The Eee was a ground-breaking little computer but had a few flaws, the biggest being the limited 800×480 display.

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Dell is expected to unveil its eagerly anticipated attempt to out-Eee Asus' Eee PC later today at an event focused on a "new generation of mobility products".

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The EeePC started as a niche product aimed at children. It was a huge hit, which surprised everybody — even Asus. Microsoft noticed it, and started putting pressure on Asus .

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The ASUS sneak attack. The most interesting story the media is downplaying is the ASUS announcement that it will have a ROM boot chip on all its motherboards, which will boot Linux instantly on start-up. When you flick the switch the machine is instantly on.

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Remix looks to provide a great solution to minimize the need to resize windows and horizontally scroll when using a umpc (like my eeePC). I am currently in the process of loading this, but it looks like an improvement over the Xandros OS that can standard on the eeePC.

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In a move that will surprise few tech heads, Asus, creator of the hugely successful EeePC netbook, have released photos of a desktop system built using the same principles.

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