Waterloo (ip-192.com): Rumors that Research in Motion (RIM) is planning a new BlackBerry powered tablet, named BlackTab are flying high (again). A report by Rodman & Renshaw analyst Ashok Kumar claims that the new device will be build around a 1 GHz Armada 610 Marvel processor, 4GB of internal memory and a 7-inch touchscreen. The [...]
Menlo Park (ip-192.com): Google confirmed that it will launch its new Chrome OS in fall of 2010 instead of 2011, as originally planned. The open source based operating system is geared towards netbooks and laptops that will run applications within a browser. To deliver a great user experience, Google plans to be initially very selective [...]
Round Rock (ip-192.com): Dell has modified the new Google Chrome OS to enable wireless access to the Internet. While the hardware manufacturer does not expect to have a product available until next year's holiday shopping season, it has ported an experimental version of Google's Chromium OS to the PC maker's Inspiron Mini 10v netbook. "Without [...]
Santa Clara (ip-192.com): Intel has released version 2.1 of its Linux derivate called Moblin. The improved OS focuses on increased functionality for netbooks using the Intel Atom processor. The update comes with a lot of bugs fixed, along with new features and customer requested improvements. Among them are: 3G Support: Currently it supports 3G connections [...]
Cupertino (ip-192.com): The upcoming Mac OS X Leopard 10.6.2 will not run on the Intel Atom processor, according to several news reports. The Atom processor is widely used in netbooks, a lately very popular stripped down version of a laptop. If the reports are true, Apple will break many netbooks which have been hacked to [...]
San Francisco (ip-192.com): A demonstration of Moblin 2.1, a Linux based operating system aimed at running Netbooks, showcased features of the next version of the Moblin operating system that eventually may find its way into cell phones and smart phones. "We're flushing out the software side," so CEO Paul Otellini at the Intel Developer Forum [...]
