Found under: Android, Netbooks, Asus, EEE, 1000H, Google, MIDs, Smartphones, Linux, OHA, Open Source, The rumors have been skimping around for months since last year about an Android based Netbook for the masses now the guys over at VentureBeat made it a little bit more realistic. The first sensible rumor about the Android based Netbook was that Asus would be the first manufacture to make it possi...

IF A VOICE-CENTRIC HANDSET anchors the left end of an imaginary arc and a wired PC anchors the right end, the middle is increasingly populated by mobile Internet devices, ultra-mobile personal computers, netbooks and e-mail-only devices.

Each year, mobile Internet access from PCs and other non mobile phone devices gets better and better and as I write these lines, I am sitting in a railway station in Paris, connected to the Internet via a 3G USB dongle at multi-megabit speeds. I travel a lot and depending on the country I am seeing lots of people doing the same these days. While at the beginning of this trend, the distinctively re...

I'm delighted to announce the publication of my new report on Mobile Broadband Computing By the end of this month, there will be 35 million users of notebooks with mobile broadband access globally. That should rise tenfold to 341 million by end-2014, including new computing platforms like MIDs. (Note: this figure excludes smartphones) However despite explosive growth in 2008 and huge long-ter...

I am, as you may know, a huge fan of MIDs - they fit in so well with my vision of the wireless future being much more network-centric and much less thick-client-based. Most PCs are regardless now money sinks - too complex, and too expensive to buy and especially own. Microsoft is doing everything they can to kill Windows, and I certainly hope they succeed. Pre-announcing Windows 7 (which some have...

Either that person has a tiny hand, or this mysterious T-swivel device needs to go on a serious diet before hitting the streets. Found on a Korean forum discussing reasons why Ultra-Mobile Personal Computers (UMPCs) and Mobile Internet Devices (MIDs ) never reached market saturation, it is not clear what category this “concept” device fits into. Sporting

I see a lot of people conflating the various terms for "smallish mobile computing device intended mostly for Internet-type applications, which probably has some sort of wireless". As always in the technology industry, there are few precise definitions and lots of grey areas and exceptions. Different companies and observers pick & choose their own preferred terms to fit with their own marke...

It's confirmed the new Aigo P8888 3G MID will be available later this month for shipping through mobilx world wide. US customers will be happy to know that they won't have to pay the VAT tax, while the website shows the product priced at "$861 inc VAT", you should rest assured, if you live in the US you will only have to pay $717. The Aigo P8888 3G MID, uses as most MIDs today a Intel Menlow

We have heard the gossip that’s been flying around at the moment about Microsoft and its own branded mobile phones powered by NVIDIA’S strong architecture for the next generation phones and MIDs at the GSMA’s Mobile World Congress in February in 2009. But we suspect these rumours are just that, if we look at Microsoft’s position,

The popular rumor floating around at the moment is that Microsoft intends to announce self-branded handsets powered by NVIDIA's beefy Tegra architecture for next-gen phones and MIDs at the GSMA's Mobile World Congress in February of next year. Let's put aside for a moment the fact that Redmond continues to vehemently deny having any interest in getting into the hardware end of its W...