Techaisle Small Business Survey Finds 50 Percent of Netbook Owners Use Push Email

Techaisle‘s study on ownership and use of Netbooks among businesses shows that current and potential Netbook buyers are more technologically sophisticated than non-Netbook owners and support mobility products within their businesses. These small businesses not only support and use mobile applications such as direct push email they have a defined policy for the use and support [...]

Next Generation Netbook Platform Delayed to Next Year – Portable Monkey

According to Digitimes, the next generation Pine Trail platform, including the newer Atom N450 processor, will be delayed from a launch Q4 2009 to anywhere in the first half of next year, 2010.

The reason being is to allow the existing netbook market to settle. Current netbooks are selling hot. It’s estimated that sales will [...]

Dell to ditch x86 for new ARM-powered netbook/MID hybrid device

Dell is reportedly developing a new pocket-sized device for “tapping into the Internet”. The device will run Google’s Android software (not Microsoft’s Windows) and will be powered by an ARM CPU (not Intel’s Atom, or VIA’s Nano). While the device will be similar to an iPod touch, though slightly larger, it too will be without cellphone [...]