This week news broke that Psion, the company that got a trademark on the term “netbook” more than 10 years ago has apparently decided to begin enforcing that trademark. Never mind the fact that Psion hasn’t released a new machine under the netbook name in 8 years, and the fact that Intel has been throwing the word around since 2007….

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Long before the OLPC XO Laptop was just a twinkle in Nicholas Negroponte’s eye, Sharp was putting out tiny clamshell devices running Linux that were even capable of running some desktop apps with a little elbow grease. Around a year ago Sharp announced that it would be killing off the Sharp Zaurus line of PDAs/mini-computers. But apparently the company kept…

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Maybe the Asus Eee PC never hit the mythical $200 price point, but that doesn’t mean you can’t pick up a laptop style device with a 7 inch display for a low, low price. In fact, Jointech appears to have even the OLPC project beat. While the XO Laptop still costs somewhere between a C note and $200, the Jointech…

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