The Singapore Straits Times has spilled the beans on the upcoming CrunchPad touchscreen tablet that’s the brainchild of TechCrunch founder Michael Arrington. The initial idea was to build a touchscreen device that was designed to run a web browser and little else, get excellent battery life, and sell for around $200. So how did they do? Basically, they’ve wound up…

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TechCrunch’s Mike Arrington started an intriguing project last summer. The goal was to build a $200 tablet designed for browsing the web, watching online video, and generally doing things that you can do in a browser. The idea was that since the hardware and software didn’t need to support any application other than the web browser, you could cut costs…

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Michael Arrington, the driving force behind the popular tech blog TechCrunch has a thought provoking article today, entitled “Three Reasons Why Netbooks Just Aren’t Good Enough.” In a nutshell, he says they’re underpowered and that the keyboards and screens are too small. Fair enough, but you’ll notice he doesn’t say exactly what they’re not good enough for in the title….

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It’s been a bit over a month since TechCrunch founder Michael Arrington announced his plans for world domination a $200 internet tablet that does one thing, and does it well – runs a web browser. Arrington’s idea is that you don’t really need a full fledged operating system and the ability to run applications on some portable devices. All you…

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One of the things that makes tiny laptops like the Asus Eee PC exciting is that they are actually full-fledged computers, not just glorified cellphones, PDAs, eBook readers, or other dedicated devices. Intel and others like to call these computers “netbooks,” because they make it easy to connect to the internet but don’t provide a ton of processing power to…

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