A few years ago IBM started offering a free office suite called Lotus Symphony. It’s based on code from OpenOffice.org, but IBM has forked the project and created a custom user interface and other tools. Last month IBM released Lotus Symphony 3.0.1 with a number of improvements including support for bubble charts and up to a million rows in spreadsheets….

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Lotus Symphony is a free office suite that IBM has been offering for the past few years. While the software is based on OpenOffice.org, it’s been largely maintained as an independent fork, and much of the code separating Symphony from the main branch of OpenOffice.org has not been contributed back to the original project. Now it looks like that will…

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The Simmtronics Simmbook isn’t exactly a state of the art netbook. It features a 1.6GHz Intel Atom N270 CPU, 10.1 inch, 1024 x 600 pixel display, 1GB of RAM, and a 160GB hard drive. In other words, it looks like virtually every netbook that was released in the summer of 2008. But here’s what the netbook has going for it:…

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The Intel Atom CPU may be the dominant chip in the netbook space right now. But the company is facing competition from VIA, ARM, and to some degree AMD. And now it looks like IBM wants in on the action. IBM and a group of partners is developing a 28 nanometer processor that could power netbooks and smartphones.  The tiny processor…

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A few days ago we found out that Lenovo’s upcoming low cost ultraportable notebook could be available as soon as September. Now it looks like we have a few specs to share. And when I say a few, I mean it. DigiTimes reports that the laptop will be manufactured by Quanta computers and will come in two models. There will…

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