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By Adam Pash Lots of big names in hardware appear to have already signed up to join in the Chrome OS world of netbooks. [IT Pro]Life After Television Two cheers for Android lovers! You've got two updates in your future yet this year. [Android Guys]Limit the CPU usage of a certain application in Linux

By Kevin Purdy We asked on Twitter what features users wanted to see in Google's Linux-based, web-focused operating system, due to be released in code later this year, then on sponsored netbooks in the second half of 2010. We've compiled ten must-have features that we'd like to see from Google's upcomi...

Five big issues with ARM and Android netbooks ZDNet Blogs Android on smartbooks is snappier than Windows 7 says Gartner Netbook Choice ARM Android netbooks more “snappy” than Windows 7 on Atom say analysts SlashGear PC World - OS News

The biggest difference between smartbooks and netbooks might not be in size, however, but in the choice of processor and operating system. Smartbooks, expected to appear in the fall, will use an ARM processor, which works with Linux. ... Review: Netbooks go mainstream WA today

Of course, there's a big leap from snappy performance to an appealing platform, and that's something that Linux still needs to address for mainstream users. Sales figures of Windows and non-Android Linux netbooks suggest that buyers are willing to put ...

At the forefront of these innovating developments are various Linux branches, Android quite possibly one of the most popular and most hoped to come preinstalled on netbooks. In the humble shadows, however, a new mobile OS is emerging and just may have ...

Elektrobit Corporation (EB), based in Oulu, Finland aims to change that with their new MID reference design that combines the "pocketability" of smartphones with the power of PCs/netbooks since it can run desktop Linux applications. ...

 MA Everything from mobile phones to netbooks to even picture frames are being built around the Linux variant. Sony has been outed this week as building the next round of their venerable Walkman products around Google's Open Source OS. ...

Qualcomm's processors don't understand the x86 instruction set used by chips from Intel and AMD, so they won't run mainstream Windows. Instead, netbook makers are turning to Linux, which has been ported to many non-x86 processor architectures. ...

BenQ planning Android netbook & smartphone for 2010  AZ BenQ to develop Android smartphone, netbooks for next year Mobiletor.com BenQ commits to Android, Acer says Android netbook will have Windows FierceWireless BenQ Android Phone & Netbook Planned for 2010 Hot Hardware

Android, Google's open-source mobile operating system, is based on a Linux kernel. As a result, it isn't hard to imagine Android, given the right kind of ... Startup Founders Turn Android into Desktop OS PC World Android OS running on netbooks CrunchGear

It's been rumored for years that Google would one day release an eponymous Linux operating system variant, but nothing ever materialized. ... Startup Founders Turn Android into Desktop OS PC World Android OS running on netbooks CrunchGear An FAQ about those Android netbooks VentureBeat

By edit@zdnet.com.au (Alex Serpo) Microsoft has previously said it would only continue to supply Windows XP for low cost "netbooks" as long as they could limit the specifications of the device, to stop competition with Vista. This is why netbooks have close to uniform specs, and specifically never more than 1GB of RAM. Thus...

By info.rss@cro.consumer.org (Consumer Reports) Netbooks, highly portable mini-laptops that are smaller, cheaper, and weigh less than regular laptops, are on track to be one of this holiday season's hot sellers. The cheapest netbooks, priced well under $400, run the Linux operating system, which limits which application software y...

By Jon p2pnet news view Open Source | Mobiles:- Mobile phone chip designer Arm and open-source Ubuntu, the free, Debian derived Linux-based O/S, have teamed up to get Ubuntu onto small, hand-held netbooks, as the likes of the XO from the One Laptop Per Child and the Eee machine from Asus, are bei...