Is the computer industry shooting itself in the foot with the netbook?

Just one year ago, netbooks were still a novel concept – the now legendary minuscule Asus Eee PC was just beginning to generate buzz, while mainstream PC manufacturers such as Dell, Hewlett-Packard and Acer were yet to release their versions.
Publication date: 2009-01-29

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AOL chief warns staff of cut-backs in 2009

AOL’s CEO, Randy Falco, has warned staff in a memo that the company faces a 10% reduction in workforce as well as other cost-cutting measures in 2009. AOL, a division of Time Warner will re-organize its business and will not be awarding merit raises this year, in addition to shedding approximately 700 jobs.  The moves come as the [...]
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Matt Miller launches Nokia Experts, site dedicated to all things Nokia

The name Matt Miller should be familiar to Geek readers since he used to write regularly for the PDAGeek section of Geek.com. Since that time Matt has been writing a couple of blogs at ZDNET. Now he’s taking on yet another venture and has launched a site dedicated to all things Nokia: NokiaExperts.com. Matt certainly qualifies [...]
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Apple wins touchscreen patent

Apple has won yet another patent on iPhone hardware, this time in the form of the touchscreen technology pioneered by the original iPhone development, in a decision finalized just days ago.  Patent 7,479,949 could have fairly sizable impacts on the industry as it gives the company the ability to monitor the usage of the technology [...]
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