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Five years ago, I wrote an article about the relatively new class of netbook computers. I suggested the ultra-low price machines runnin...

The rise of the netbook has been an extraordinary saga. When the Asus Eee PC was first launched at the end of 2007, it seemed to come from n...

Here's an excellent point : Even Windows-based netbooks are good news for open source, though. Firefox is pre-loaded on the millions of ...

Remember OQO ? It was a really innovative machine, well ahead of its time. Essentially it was a netbook before they existed, but it made ...

One of the most vexed questions at the moment is the state of the netbook market. What are the returns for GNU/Linux-based systems? And is...

Here 's what he said: "The economy is helpful. Paying an extra $500 for a computer in this environment -- same piece of hardware --...

As I've noted before, you can tell open source has entered the mainstream when political parties try to outbid each other in establishin...

As I've been telling anyone who would listen, one of the key recent trends has been the "race to the bottom" in terms of prici...

There's been a lot of sound and fury flying around about the split between GNU/Linux and Windows XP sales on netbooks, and what that mea...

There are two schools of thought about netbooks. The first is that they are simply another kind of notebook - smaller, a bit cheaper, but o...

Hmm, lookee here: Microsoft wants to hire a Director, Open Source Desktop Strategy. Here are the details : The Windows Competitive Strategy...

Hp's new Mini 1000 Mi is starting to win plaudits all over the place. It's not hard to see why: it looks cool, has cool specs, and ...

Netbooks have been one of the surprise successes over the last year. They have also been one of the most contentious areas of computing. The...

News that for probably the first time Microsoft would be making significant numbers of its workforce redundant has inevitably been picked up...

Good point here: Even if manufacturers may be getting smaller margins on netbooks, I suspect they will add skins, cool designs and other le...

Surprisingly spot-on piece in FT today about netbooks. Key bit: The netbook category is posing a challenge for Microsoft, the biggest sof...

As I've just written on Open Enterprise, the rise of the ultraportable/netbook was one of free software's biggest successes - and su...

One of the surprises of 2008 was the runaway success of the ultaportable/netbook form factor. Now that systems running Windows XP are availa...

I've written before about the increasing uptake of, and innovation around, free software in Russia. Here's another fascinating exp...