Motorola Webtop laptop dock

In the smart phone realm, the Motorola Atrix 4G has got to be the most intriguing of all. For one thing, this smart phone uses a very fast NVIDIA Tegra 2 processor and it also connects via 4G. Of course, the most intriguing reason is that Motorola has revealed some laptop docking stations that can [...]

Asus working on an App Store for Eee Pad

Asus’ CEO, Jerry Shen has told engadget at CeBIT 2010 that they are working on an AppStore for its upcoming slate tablet, Eee Pad. Also, on using ARM processors in netbooks, he said that x86 infrastructure is required to provide better experience to the users and ARM processors are more suited for “one piece PCs”.

This is a clear indication that Asus is not going to roll-out a clamshell smartbook anytime soon.

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HTC to enter netbook market

HTC has received pretty good recognition and is now considered one of the most reputed smartphone manufactures. Now, according to the latest news bits, there are chances that it might try it hands in the (over-saturated) netbook market.

According to HTC CEO Peter Chou, they are very much interested in this category and they are looking forward to enter the netbook market.

I am pretty sure that we will see something very unique and exiting, if, in case, HTC does enter the netbook market. We have seen some really great MID-like smartphones from them. To name a few, HTC TOUCH PRO 2 and the latest one featuring a capacitive display like iPhone, the HTC TOUCH HD 2

Note that HTC did enter the UMPC market and they were not able to sell a lot of these UMPCs. HTC’s UMPC known as the HTC Shift was a disaster; costing more than $1000; ran Vista on a 800MHz processor!

Look out for our extensive HTC TOUCH HD 2 coverage at WindowsPhoneMix.com, our sister site about Windows Phones

Pixel Qi Tablet Netbook debuting in November

“A new tablet netbook that uses the Pixel Qi display might be declared in November”. Those were the words of Mary Lou, CEO of Pixel Qi. This display has both e-ink and LCD display properties and one can toggle between these two types just by toggling a switch!

The mass production will commence once the production for limited volumes get completed.

Dell and Salesforce Team Up to Offer Cloud-based Solutions

Few days back, we mentioned about Larry Ellison (Oracle’s CEO) views on Cloud Computing and how much he despised Cloud Computing. Today, surprisingly, Dell and Salesforce.com announced a new line of cloud based solutions to enhance the effectiveness of customer relationship management apps. This new handshake between Dell and Salesforce will integrate Salesforce’s CRM apps with Dell’s Integration Services to solve critical integration issues between apps

Learn more about Dell CRM here

Oracle’s CEO hates the word “cloud computing”

Larry Ellion, CEO of Oracle Corporation is extremely allergic to the word “Cloud Computing”. However, unlike techcrunchit, we do not think he is hates “cloud computing”, but he hates the way that word is being used. He is NOT against cloud computing. According to him, we have been using cloud computing’s apps in the past too, but the difference was that those apps did not carry the tag “cloud apps” with them.

I feel that cloud computing is great until the network goes down. Reason behind it is that sync does not work when the network goes down. Also, cloud computing can never work for mission critical apps or apps that require 100% uptime or access to your data.

That said, lets face it: Oracle serves the back-end of the cloud computing for many websites. So, Oracle makes money out of it even though Larry openly admits that he hates cloud computing.

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ASUS to go for DTS surround sound in 2010

ASUS has opted to go for DTS surround sound for their notebooks and netbooks in the next year, that is 2010, says ASUS CEO Jon Kirchner.

Other than ASUS, is already in partnership with other big companies such as Acer, Foxconn and Shuttle. It has also signed deals with VIA Technologies, Intel and Realtek.

ASUS Snapdragon Smartbook – Launch postponed

ASUS has decided to halt the release of their ARM-based Qualcomm Snapdragon smartbook. We mentioned a couple of months about ASUS releasing their Smartbook.

What could be the possible reason for delaying their Smartbook is the fact that ASUS suffered revenue loss which was in the news today.

CEO Jerry Shen doesn’t have high hopes for the smartbook market, he is quoted as saying, ”Currently, I don’t see a clear market for smartbooks.”

So there are two reasons for it. First, lets face it that ACER is kind-of becoming the undisputed leader in the netbook market although it entered after ASUS in the world of netbooks and thus ASUS is not able to sell achive its sales targets. Secondly, demand for Smartbooks is currently unknown. Last month, Acer decided to delay the launch of their netbook. Acer’s Smartbook will be running Android OS and Acer thinks that there is not-enough demand for the Android OS and thus has decided to postpone the release of their Smartbook.

Good news for Android Netbooks – Android OS to get Opera Mobile browser!

Opera Mobile is one of the most popular apps ever made for Windows Mobile. Infact, the Internet Experience would have been nothing but shabby on Windows Mobile devices if Opera would not have made Opera Mobile for WM. Now, folks at Opera have announced that very soon, they will soon be unveiling Opera Mobile for the Android OS.

“Yes, we are working on an Android version,” von Tetzchner, CEO of Opera said

Competition is always good. Although we have no complaints with the built-in browser of the Android OS, but it would would be nice to see if Opera is able to take mobile web-browsing to a new level or not.

No Blackberry netbook in horizon

RIM’s CEO has confirmed that they won’t be releasing a blackberry netbook anytime soon. This is not surprising as just few days back, he literally thrashed the netbooks by saying that since the Smartphones are more portable than netbooks, they will always rule over netbooks.

Instead, he says that wirelessly connected hardware like keyboards and secondary screens is something they will work upon. Stupid logic.