Technologizer

Would You Buy a Non-Windows, Non-OS X PC?

Tuesday, September 8, 2009

The IDG News Service’s Dan Nystedt has a report today that Taiwanese electronics behemoth Foxconn is planning to build “smartbooks”–even cheaper netbooks, basically–built around ARM processors. Their lack of x86 CPUs means they’ll run some flavor of Linux–perhaps Moblin (backed by Intel) or, eventually, Google’s Chrome oS. We know they won’t run Windows–not unless Microsoft [...]

JoliCloud’s Cloud-Happy Netbook OS On the Way

Thursday, May 28, 2009

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One thing that first drew me to netbooks was the idea of living on the cloud. After losing everything on my last PC in a horrifying motherboard fire, I suddenly wanted to have as much as possible running over the Internet. So JoliCloud’s netbook operating system, reportedly going into alpha next month, is an exciting prospect. [...]

5Words for Memorial Day, May 25th, 2009

Monday, May 25, 2009

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Holidays are usually pretty quiet: Google Earth honors the fallen. Read Sprint’s Pre launch guide. Lenovo to use Nvidia’s Ion. More about AT&T’s Palm EOS. Safari 4 practices poor housekeeping. Goal one for Pre: browsing. Gotta love the name “Wooo.” iPhone-painted New Yorker cover. Iran blocks Facebook. (Twitter? MySpace?) A more Mac-like Linux.

5Words for March 24th, 2009

Tuesday, March 24, 2009

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News, hot off the grill: In defense of Facebook’s redesign. Dell’s working on smaller devices. Google Street View: Kill it! A cloud-based game console. Skype: biggest long-distance carrier. A botnet that attacks Linux. Warner’s made-to-order DVDs. iPhone keyboard, no jailbreaking required. Peek’s new not-a-phone. Voice-driven Eee PCs soon?

The Best of Frenemies

Thursday, December 11, 2008

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Frenemy: Someone who is both friend and enemy, a relationship that is both mutually beneficial or dependent while being competitive, fraught with risk and mistrust. –Urban Dictionary That’s not a bad first stab at a definition, but let’s expand on it: A frenemy can be a friend who evolves into an enemy. Or an enemy who morphs [...]