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Jolicloud OS gets revealed

Posted on 03 June 2009

I’ve been eagerly awaiting information on the upcoming Jolicloud OS and finally we can see what this cloud oriented OS brings to the table. Sascha has a great video of the Jolicloud alpha over at Netbooknews.com. The 14 minute video gives a very nice overview of Jolicloud, which Sascha is calling a ‘social OS’. I have to agree that Jolicloud looks like it is much more than just another Linux distro with a netbook orientation. They are really bringing the concept of cloud computing into the OS itself. One of […]

Slick VAIO P shaped device runs Android, powered by OMAP3 [video]

Posted on 03 June 2009

Sascha from Netbooknews.de (and more recently the English version, Netbooknews.com) is down on the ground in Taipei checking out the latest and greatest from Computex. A quick video from Sascha shows us an upcoming laptop form-factor device running an interesting combination of hardware and software. The ECS T800, as it is being called, is a device that looks much like the size and shape of the Sony VAIO P [Portal page]. It is using a Texas Instruments OMAP3 3440 CPU running at only 800MHz or optionally the OMAP3 3450 running […]

Pixel Qi shows off new power saving screens [video]

Posted on 02 June 2009

We’ve been hearing rumblings of this for a while now, but it seems that Pixel Qi is now showing its new dual mode power saving screens. Based on the screen featured in the OLPC project’s XO computer. Essentially Pixel Qi has designed an LCD screen which can display just like you would expect a standard screen to do, but it can also toggle to  an E-Ink like mode which uses ambient light to display the on screen image rather than a backlight. What are the implications for the mobile device […]

Computex Day 1 – Netbooks are in apparently!

Posted on 02 June 2009

IMG_9335 Listen, netbooks and ‘thin is in’ notebooks are cool and all that but can we have some MID and UMPC love please? ;-) Read more.

Tracking down the XPPhone

Posted on 02 June 2009

It’s been reported by a few sites recently but today it launched…apparently. At some time between 0930 and 1100 while I was getting my press pass and finding my feet at Computex, In Technology Group launched the XPPhone.

BenQ MID running XP and Wimax

Posted on 02 June 2009

I’ve started at the quiet end of Computex today which is probably a good thing to do when it’s your first time. I’ll move the main hall tomorrow because later today we’ve got the Intel Keynote and Mobility presentation. One thing I did check out though was the Intel WiMax stand where there were a range of devices. The Viliv S5, X70 and S7 were there along with the Benq MID that’s available in Italy. I had heard that XP was working on it but I hadn’t seen it in […]

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