Intel Atom Developer Program launches Million Dollar Development Fund

The folks at the Intel Atom Developer Program are at once again. Ever since their announcement at CES of the new Intel App Up program, Intel has been going full bore on their promise to help developers get visibility into the netbook arena.  Intel wants the netbook market to flourish and applications for netbooks to [...]

CES- More on the Intel App Up Store

I was fortunate enough to attend the Intel Netbook meetup event yesterday afternoon, where Intel gave us a hands-on with their new Intel App Up store.
While we have already reported most of the major details, here is some more information we were able to squeeze out of Intel:

The look and feel of the store is [...]

CES: Intel’s App Up goes live

Here at the CES Intel keynote, Paul O finally let the app out of the bag with the beta version of the new Intel App Up store.  The store is in beta right now, but here is what is now available for consumers:

Developed for developers to create new and adapt old applications to work on [...]

Intel announces new Atom processors- small and efficient

Intel has announced the arrival of its new Atom processors, including the “Pine trail” nettop-centered processors.   They are smaller, more integrated, and more efficient.
From Gizmodo article:
The new chips include the N450 for netbooks and the D410 and D510 for nettops (or, as Intel kept calling them, “entry-level desktops”). The big news is that they’ve [...]

New MSI Wind netbooks using new Intel Pine Trail processors

The folks over at MSI have wasted no time in wanting to use Intel’s new Pine Trail line of Intel Atom-based processors in their new 2010 netbook line up.

The two new Wind netbooks, the U130 and the U135, use the N450 chip will will greatly enhance the battery life for these machines.  Something every netbook [...]

Nvida ION 2 Likley to Arrive Alongside the Atom N450 in January

Digitimes is reporting that the Nvidia ION 2 chip will likely arrive in time to support the new Intel Atom N450 CPU which is expected to be released in January in a slew of new netbooks.
According to the report the release of Nvidia ION 2 will, “resemble and act more like a discrete GPU.” This [...]

1/11/10- The day N450 Atom comes to town

Complying with their agreement with Intel, the big netbook vendors MSI, Acer, Asustek Computer, and Lenovo all held off releasing their new Atom-based N450 netbooks.  But, as of January 11, 2010, these netbooks will be available for sale to the public.
There will be three versions of Atom N450-based netbooks available, each using different operating systems: [...]

HyperSpace: Instant on Coming to Nettops

How often do you sit there waiting for the Windows Boot Screen to disappear, just wishing that you could be happily on your way to Twitter or watching a TV Show on Hulu over your lunch break?

My guess is pretty often. One of the biggest complaints that people have with their computers is that they take “forever” to boot up and let them do something. While each version of windows boots faster if you really want instant on access you need to have an operating system like Phoenix Technologies’’ HyperSpace.

Nokia Announces the Nokia Booklet 3G Netbook

Last Friday’s rumor of a Nokia Netbook was confirmed in short order by a press release on Nokia’s website announcing the Nokia Booklet 3G. The Nokia Booklet 3G will feature a 10″ screen, a Windows OS and claims a 12 hour battery life that will convince you to leave your power cord at home.