Remember those first 7-inch Asus Eee PCs advertised with kids tapping on chicklet keyboards? Well, Intel apparently wants us to return to those Netbook glory days.
By getting Hewlett-Packard, Dell and other hardware OEMs to consider the Android operating system for their netbooks, Google has ripped a page right out of Microsoft's playbook.
Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) is taking steps to ensure that it's not left behind by rivals such as Apple in the burgeoning market for netbooks -- a new class of low-cost, low-powered notebook PCs optimized for basic tasks like messaging, e-mailing, and Web browsing. "Just look at what we are seeing with new low-cost PCs today -- so-called netbooks -- and what they are enabling you to do in addition to the PCs and the phones that people own," Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer said last month at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain, signaling a keen interest in the sector. [Comments...]
