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AT&T offers more netbook options

AT&T stated Tuesday it will proceed with its plans to sell subsidized netbooks with data contracts.
The telecoms company has had success by offering discounted cell phones with two-year contracts, and it is betting on it that businesses plan forward with netbooks. They offer $50 Acer Aspire One computers in trial markets for users who signed [...]

[ More ] May 20th, 2009 | No Comments | Posted in Computing, Mobile |

Dell dumps Intel and AMD for Via

Dell engineers are turning to Via Technologies to power the systems. Tasked with creating a server that offered full functionality but that could fit into highly dense Web hosting environments, Via seemed the logical choice.
Dell is preparing to release the XS11-VX8, codenamed Fortuna, which is powered by Via’s Nano CPU and is aimed at Web [...]

[ More ] May 18th, 2009 | No Comments | Posted in Computing |

Netbooks account for almost 20% of notebook sales

Market forecaster DisplaySearch reported that almost 6 million netbooks were shipped in Q1 2009, which raises their standing within the notebook PC market to almost one fifth of the market.
HP saw the highest numbers in the industry having shipped 7.3 million units in Q1 2009. Acer, having recently scaled back its shipment forecasts for its [...]

[ More ] May 14th, 2009 | No Comments | Posted in Computing |

Intel fined a massive $1.45 Billion in Antitrust case

The European Commission on today fined the world’s largest chip maker, Intel, a record $1.446 billion (or about €1.06 billion) for abusing its dominance in the computer chip market to exclude longtime rival Advanced Micro Devices (AMD).
The move comes one day after Intel’s CEO Paul Otellini stated that chip orders for Q2 2009 have been [...]

[ More ] May 13th, 2009 | No Comments | Posted in Computing |