CrunchPad tablet: it's a goner before arrival

The CrunchPad, a highly anticipated 12-inch tablet computer that was recently named as one of the 10 "most brilliant products" of the year by Popular Mechanics magazine, is "now in the DeadPool," according to the man who has been its biggest enthusiast. Complete Story...

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Review: $500 Samsung netbook sports new processor

Intel Corp. has had a near lock on supplying processors for netbooks — the cheap, tiny laptops that are the biggest hit in the computer market these days. Now there's an alternative from a Taiwanese competitor, Via Technologies Inc. It might be time to leave your Intel-powered comfort zone.

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Lines between netbooks, laptops keep blurring

When I saw Lenovo's recent announcement about its new, 12-inch netbook, the IdeaPad S12, I did a doubletake. Netbook? 12-inch screen? That's what my Mac PowerBook, circa 2004, had, and I remember carrying it everywhere.

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Dell launches 'Della,' a women's PC site

Computer sales have slowed down, but has it really come to this? Dell, the world's second largest manufacturer of PCs, last week launched a cutesy site for women called "Della." What's next, "Dello" for guys? Maybe No. 1 PC maker H-P wants to do something similar like "Hewlett-Packarda" for females, and "Hewlett-Packardo," as in Ricky Ricardo, for men?

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Wireless carriers see net from netbooks

Netbooks, the “Mini-Me’s” of laptops, have gained popularity quickly, and with sagging cell phone sales, wireless carriers see dollar signs in the diminutive PCs. Verizon Wireless plans to offer netbooks by summer, following on the heels of AT&T, which started doing so late last year.

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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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In 2009, it's better to be an Internet company that's taking slow, awkward first steps toward the PC, than a PC company that's still trying and failing to truly integrate with the Internet.

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A $600 netbook? That's the unsubsidized price of Nokia's new Booklet 3G, the company's venture into the netbook field. Or, it's $300 with an AT&T contract for two years.

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Birds are singing, the sun is shining and I am joyful first thing in the morning without caffeine.

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At this point, I'm going to stop asking when Apple will acknowledge these dark days we live in because I think the answer is never. Maybe Apple should just be a bull market company.

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If you were gearing up to launch a tablet computer — and these days, who isn't? — who would you hire to market it? One obvious candidate would be Michael Tchao, one of the original developers of Apple's groundbreaking but failed Newton personal digital assistant.

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Want to know some more about Apple's upcoming tablet device? You're in luck. We've received the scoop from our reliable source—who correctly called the iPod nano 5G, iPhone 3GS and Chinese iPhone 3G months ago.

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Apple has produced not just a lone 10-inch tablet device, but also models in two larger sizes, an anonymous source claims.

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A new study suggests students prefer low-cost netbooks over Apple's MacBook, but some believe the Mac-maker's long-rumored tablet could take a large portion of low-end laptop sales.

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A new financial analysis predicts that Apple's yet-to-be-announced tablet will launch in early 2010 and sell about 2 million units in its first year -- and at an estimated $600 each, that would be an additional $1.2 billion in revenue.

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Rumors have been crisscrossing the Internet about actions by Apple that point tellingly to the advent of an Apple tablet, or some kind of outsize iPod touch. VentureBeat is speculating that Apple may use chips they have developed themselves in the imminent $800 tablet computer.

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Such a device would fit logically in Apple's product lineup and as Spencer Ante and I reported in April, there are people in the wireless industry who've seen just such a device.

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Rumors about an Apple "netbook" or "tablet" have been rampant for years, but if a report today on the Taiwanese news site Info Times is any indication, a touchscreen Mac may finally be coming to market in October of this year.

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The Official Google blog's intro to this announcement is as follows

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A new survey shows that a lot of consumers who buy netbooks may be dissatisfied with their purchases. In late spring, consultant NPD surveyed 600 online consumers to gage their impressions of the popular mini-laptops called netbooks.

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Microsoft plans to redefine mini-notebooks that Intel has categorized as netbooks with a new term – low cost small notebook PC, according to Steven Guggenheimer, general manager of the Application Platform & Development Marketing Division at Microsoft.

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Let's say it does make one.

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We have been seeing better and better looking netbooks, but the Toshiba NB205 is hands-down one of the most stunning we have seen and have had the chance to use. Toshiba is offering two different versions of the NB205.

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With a little more digging, Schouwenberg found multiple Windows system restore points, typically an indication that the machine had been updated with new drivers or software had been installed before it left the factory.

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I was lucky enough to have a friend at Dell who let me play with Dell's new Latitude 2100-N for a few hours. After he chased me down, he pried it out of my fingers. I didn't want to give it up. This is one nice Ubuntu Linux-powered netbook.

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"In the first period--June, July, August of last year--there were some in the retail channels that were shipping (Netbooks) as notebooks," Sean Maloney said in a question-and-answer session that was streamed over the Web.

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According to reports from laptop manufacturers, Intel's road map for the rest of 2009 is crystal clear and full of code names.

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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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EWeek reports that the massive increase in sales for low margin netbooks is destroying the notebook market and that Microsoft must work with OEMs to stop the crisis.

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The sources indicate that Apple has struck a deal with contract electronics manufacturer Hon Hai Precision Industry (a.k.a. Foxconn Electronics) to manufacture Apple netbooks.

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LeBlanc said Microsoft's success in the netbook market has come at the expense of the open source Linux operating system, which was popular on early netbook models because of its small footprint and low cost.

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