HP is recalling around six million power cords that it shipped with notebooks and accessories, citing a "risk of a fire and burn hazard to customers", after 29 instances of the cords overheating.
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iSuppli is predicting that netbook shipments will completely die off by 2015, while shipments this year will fall 72% to just 3.97m. The rise in popularity of tablets is understandably to blame.
Google, a nearly impenetrable force in the search market, is now starting to make waves in the OS market too. But should Microsoft be concerned about Google's lightweight, Internet-dependent OS?
A new rumor claims that Samsung will soon no longer make any more of its netbook products. Instead it will reportedly produce ultraportables and notebooks based on Intel's Ultrabook design.
Sales for netbooks are quickly and unsurprisingly diminishing due to massive interest in the tablet market, spelling an impending death for the low-cost poor-performing notebook type
A new video in HP's training centre suggests HP may be preparing to reveal netbooks running their webOS 2.0 operating system at their special event next month. The video, found on HP's carrier training website and...
Intel will be releasing the highly anticipated dual-core Atom processor this quarter. The announcement comes after the chip maker had an over 400% profit rise for the first quarter this year compared to the same...
At a sponsored dinner on Tuesday night, Dell Founder and CEO, Michael Dell, told of his dislike for netbooks and admitted that the "biggest mistake" of his career was not diversifying the company sooner. When...
Recently Gartner Analysis predicted that the sales of netbooks will grow nearly 80% this year to 21 million units, while overall PC sales decline by 11.9%. Given that netbooks are leading the PC market growth,...
There has been lot going on with Windows 7 and that it can run on 'netbooks' - lightweight, low-cost laptops that typically use Intel's low-powered Atom processor and don't come with substantial amounts of RAM...
Rumours are spreading that Google is in talks with leading netbook producers to offer a version of Android in anticipation of competing with Microsoft's own Windows 7, an operating system designed to be flexible enough...
Craig Marcho, a support engineer with the Performance Team of Microsoft has blogged his recent experiences with Windows 7 on netbook. A pre-beta build of Windows 7 loaded on a netbook helped him to run...
Hewlett-Packard said it will likely offer at least 3 different editions of Windows 7 - The Starter, Professional and the Home Premium editions on future models of its Mini netbooks. Kyle Thornton,...
During a recent question and answer session with Brad Brooks, corporate vice president of Windows Consumer Product Marketing, he gave his take on Windows 7 on netbooks, or mini-notebook PC's. ...
Matthäus Krzykowski & Daniel Hartmann have successfully ported Google's mobile operating system, Android, to a desktop operating system. The Android's Linux core has helped them to achieve this. The work started when a Google developer,...
