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Jun 15 2009   4:38PM GMT

Sneak peek at Dell Android phone?



Posted by: Barbara Darrow
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Want a blurry peek at Dell’s long-rumored cell phone? Here it is courtesy of PDAfans via Engadget. This picture must have been taken with the Barbara-Walters-soft-focus cam. But hey, it’s something.

Reports of this work in progress have circulated long and hard. You gotta hand it to Google, it’s drummed up Android rumors to a fever pitch. Positively Microsoftian.

Jun 4 2009   3:08PM GMT

Back to the future: Ellison eyes netbooks



Posted by: Barbara Darrow
Android, Google, IT channel products and technologies, Barbara Darrow, Windows 7, netbooks

I can’t remember who said it but  around the time Oracle launched its big Sun Microsystems buyout plan, one industry pundit snarked that it was only a matter of time before Oracle CEO Larry Ellison would rechristen netbooks as NCs and declare victory. (If you kids don’t know what an NC is, ask your parents. Or read this.) Continued »


May 26 2009   6:51PM GMT

OS choice for netbooks expands



Posted by: Barbara Darrow
Google, Android, Intel, Barbara Darrow, netbook, Linux, IT channel products and technologies

First there was news that Hewlett-Packard, Dell and possibly other hardware makers would consider slapping Google Android on netbooks.

Last week, Intel said it’s jumping into the netbook OS market as well with Moblin, it’s own take on a Linux-based netbook OS. 

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