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Netbook or notebook? Confusion reigns at 12 inches

Netbook or notebook? Confusion reigns at 12 inchesThere's also a real difference in battery lifeSo if battery life is more important than performance and this is true for many people on the road you're better off with a netbook.Netbooks and ultralightsI've long been a fan of the ultralight category of...

Tags: Netbooks, nettops & MIDs, Notebooks, netbook market, netbook, laptop computer, Confusion Reigns, notebook, battery

Discussion threads 2009-06-25

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News to know: Yahoo, Windows 7, Palm, AMD, Blackberry Tour, Netbook

Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET’s around-the-Web tech coverage. Sam Diaz: Bartz to Yahoo shareholders: Change is coming; We're not Google Yahoo: Showtime for shareholders this morning ...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Google Inc., Richard Koman, Yahoo! Inc., Palm Inc., RIM BlackBerry, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Sam Diaz, Netbook, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software

Blog posts 2009-06-26

Netbook or notebook? Confusion reigns at 12 inches

Market researcher NPD says that consumers are confused about the difference between a netbook and a notebook. It's no wonder. In the world according to Wintel, the distinction would be fairly clear: Netbooks have 10-inch or smaller displays, use Atom processors and 1GB of memory, and run...

Tags: Memory, Microsoft Windows, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Laptop Computer, Netbook, Gateway LT3100, Dell Mini 12, Notebook Price, Netbooks, Nettops & MIDs, Notebooks, Processors, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Semiconductors, Components, John Morris

Blog posts 2009-06-25

Spam maker sees trademark bid canned

Spam maker sees trademark bid cannedhallelujah- there be the lightperhaps.,... just perhaps.... there is hope to this crazy trademark and patent thinking..... hallelujahI sleep better tonight [just as long as MS have a pending application for the TM spam as some form of unwanted intrusion into the personal life of...

Tags: Cyberthreats, Spam, Branding, Google Inc., Spiced Ham, ham, Sham

Discussion threads 2006-10-05

BEA, Cape Clear claim no. 1 ESB spot

Forrester Research just published its latest quarterly report on the ESB market, and both BEA Systems and Cape Clear Software are claiming the top spot in the rankings. Forrester describes ESBs as 'the most straightforward way to get started with service-oriented integration today.' To avoid more confusion...

Tags: Enterprise Service Bus

Blog posts 2006-07-06

MSN has media network plans, but brand confusion still reigns

The new head of Microsoft's MSN division, John Nicol, has been calling the company's MSN portal "MSN Media Network" internally, according to reports. However Nicol says that Microsoft has no formal plans to rebrand the site. In a CNET article Nicol talks about wanting MSN to be a "media...

Tags: MSN

Blog posts 2006-02-09

Marriott loses data on 200,000 customers

Marriott loses data on 200,000 customersYou would think they have learned by now...It seems companies are losing personal data at every opportunity. As if Choice Point wasn't a wakeup call for IT security, it seems hackers need not apply for identity theft jobs; Just assemble a team of...

Tags: Social Security, E-mail, Operational accounting, SECURITY, Marriott

Discussion threads 2006-01-03

Apple developers cautiously upbeat on Intel

Apple developers cautiously upbeat on IntelChanging...but to the wrong processor?Change is good. But if they're not going to go PC Compatible, they should have just waited and changed to commodity Cell processors.At least writing viruses will be easy. :>What about old software?So to buy a new Intel Mac,...

Tags: Desktops, Operating systems, Apple Macintosh, Apple Mac OS, Apple Inc., Apple Mac OS X, Intel Corp., processor, virus

Discussion threads 2005-06-06

New Netscape embraces Firefox, IE

New Netscape embraces Firefox, IEwhat?"AOL renewed its license to use IE with its proprietary online service."IE is part of the OS, so why do they need a additional license to allow a user to use it, too funnyThe good news: now even Netscape has IE.Good to know that the...

Tags: Web browsers, Netscape Communications Corp., Microsoft Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, Web browser

Discussion threads 2004-11-30