In the early 2000s, a lot happened in terms of hardware. New device categories appeared out of nowhere and disappeared just ...

Apple looks set to shake up casual computing with a tablet that offers clever design and ease of use. But that streamlined approach may also be the iPad’s weakness. Ever since Steve Jobs got on stage ...

Are consumers dissatisfied with their netbooks? Despite the form factor's explosive growth in popularity and seemingly bright future, a market analysis firm with a novel means of collecting and ...

Each week Ross Rubin contributes Switched On, a column about consumer technology. In describing Toshiba's decision to exit the U.S. netbook market, Engadget eulogized that it was "a sad day for those ...

With the announcement of three new Windows 7-based tablets, Netbook Navigator has made a splash in the already flooded world of tablets here at CES 2011. Netbook Navigator showed off the NAV7, NAV9 ...

Lenovo has introduced a new netbook with a 12-inch display that will also be the first netbook device to include Nvidia' s new graphics platform, Ion. The IdeaPad S12 from Lenovo will have a 100 ...

E-book readers are popular for reading digital books, but they've got their limitations. If you have a netbook, you already have a powerful and virtually unrestricted portable e-book reader on your ...

Sony doesn't make netbooks. The Vaio P, for example is absolutely, positively not a netbook. In fact, in February Sony senior vice president Mike Abary called the whole netbook market "a race to the ...

Jolicloud, which set out to build a cloud-based operating system for netbooks, appears to be preparing to build and sell its own line of actual netbooks, too. Tariq Krim, founder and CEO of the French ...

With the poor global economy, the computer market is having one of the roughest years in recent memory with most all of the major computer makers reporting missed earnings and looking at layoffs in ...

The term netbook, coined by Intel, conveys little useful information about this category of machines. Sure, they all have wireless networking, but so does every other laptop. What the term originally ...

Why silicon.com's sub editor is ditching her laptop for a sprightly mini-laptop Netbooks have been enjoying the spotlight of late - but are they suitable for the workplace? Bethan Jones puts one to ...