Now this is one for the books. Asus is planning to make some voice-controlled Eees and they plan to release them before the end of the year. “Oh for sure,” reiterated Asus CEO Jerry Shen, when TechRadar quizzed him further about voice-controlled computing. “Actually, internally we have one team dedicated to studying voice recognition. Touch […]
Archives for April 2009
After netbooks, will a $5 iPod follow?
Netbooks were a big hit. Cheap, affordable and underpowered laptops that could be carried around everywhere became an instant hit within a year of the launch of the first Eee. So it wasn’t much of a surprise that a Seattle-based nonprofit organization called Literacy Bridge is pushing for the creation of a cheap iPod-like Linux-based […]
Eee PC 1004DN
So we all know that the Eee PC 1004DN with an optical disc drive, an ExpressCard/34 slot and a fingerprint scanner, along with an SD card slot and 3 USB ports, right? If it wasn’t too much of a good deal already, Asus is also throwing in a bunch of software with the much-anticipated netbook: […]
96% of netbooks are running Windows – Microsoft
According to Microsoft, 96% of netbooks are running Windows. Now the reason people are going for Windows when Linux is around and in many cases, is almost as easy to use, according to Microsoft is that: It’s easier to set up, easier to use, and easier to maintain It just works with people’s stuff There’s […]