One if five laptops sold is now a netbook

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DisplaySearch’s latest Quarterly PC Shipment and Forecast Report has confirmed the netbook trend. More than 38 million netbook computers were sold in the second quarter of 2009, it is a jump of over 40% compared to the first quarter of the year. Sales of netbooks are growing twice as fast as laptops The strong growth [...]

Nokia announces Booklet 3G Netbook and goes head to head vs Apple Tablet

Nokia, the world’s largest manufacturer of mobile phones, has announced a stylish netbook Nokia Booklet 3G. The Nokia netbook features a 10-inch HD-ready screen, weighs 1.25 kilograms (2.75 pounds), it runs Windows 7 and connects to Wi-Fi as well as 3G cellular wireless networks. The Nokia Booklet 3G has an aluminum case, it is about [...]

Will the Apple Tablet be the ultimate portable netbook ever?

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Will the Apple tablet be the ultimate portable netbook ever is the big question. Rumors about Apple Tablet device are everywhere last few days. Some say it will be released late this year, some say early 2010. But no one really knows other than few people at Apple. The ultimate portable web-centric device? But all [...]

How will Google make money with an open-source operating system?

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Google plans to release Chrome OS operating system as a free alternative to Microsoft’s Windows and Apple OS operating systems. Chrome OS will be released as an open-source during 2010. The question is how does Google plan to make money with an open-source OS? Google CEO Eric Schmidt has been talking to the financial analysts [...]

Microsoft responds to the threat from the Google cloud

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“We have over a half a billion customers world-wide and what we hear from them is that they really want the power of the web without compromise. They want collaboration without compromise. “And what they tell us today is that going to the web often means they sacrifice fidelity, functionality and the quality of the [...]

What is Cloud Computing?

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Cloud computing is one of the hottest trend in technology and with the rise of the netbooks and the announcement of Google Chrome OS, it is slowly going mainstream. We will definitely hear much more about cloud computing as it becomes more advanced and available to more people, but here is an overview of what [...]

More Google Chrome OS news not always good news

Chrome won’t be available for another year. And we know precious little about it beyond its due date and the fact that it’s designed primarily for netbooks. Nobody really knows at this point what impact, if any, the Chrome OS will have on you, me, Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, or anyone else. But that didn’t [...]

Google Chrome OS / Operating System

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Google Chrome Operating System or in the other words Google Chrome OS has just been announced. This Web OS which will mostly consist of Google web apps as native operative system apps will change the way we spend our time on our personal computers and the way we spend time online. TheChromeCloud blog will focus [...]