Netbooks have had no shortage of naysayers since they first appeared two fall seasons ago. Critics said they were too small, underpowered, and fragile, for starters. Tell that to the consumers who ...

Customers looking at netbooks at a Gome Group store in Beijing. Cheap, portable and document-processing friendly, netbooks seemed to meet all the needs of professionals. But today they are losing out ...

Microsoft had a choice; it could use Windows 7 to bolster Netbooks, or wait for another vendor to disrupt its PC licensing revenue. It chose the latter, and has been working to correct ever since. For ...

Worldwide netbook shipments are expected to grow in the first quarter of 2010, but could be affected as handheld tablets like the iPad gain in popularity, research firm DisplaySearch said in a study ...

Canonical has not yet built an Ubuntu Linux distribution for tablets and will continue development of the OS for PCs and netbooks, company executives said. Fast growth in tablet shipments has not ...

In the early 2000s, a lot happened in terms of hardware. New device categories appeared out of nowhere and disappeared just ...

Look, I know you like the netbook idea -- and you love netbook prices. If you're like most people, you think tablets are expensive, slow, heavy and a pain to use. But if you've bought one, you know ...

Personal computer sales overall will grow 52 percent by 2015, the report predicts, with consumers in the U.S. purchasing nearly half a billion desktop, notebook/laptop, tablet and netbook PCs during ...

The tablet category is quickly becoming a tricky one to analyze. As in the early stages of any technology category, we are seeing the tablet market splinter into separate markets. While I like to ...

I'm in the market for a cheap ($200 -$250) netbook or tablet. I really just need internet, email, maybe netflix on it. I know I can get a netbook for $200 and probably be happy with it. The issue is ...

TAIPEI (Reuters) - Netbooks, take note. Hot sales of Apple's iPad is attracting a growing group of developers to a new generation of stylish, multimedia tablet devices that could be the next big thing ...