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Gdium launches One Laptop Per Hacker program for netbook developers

The folks behind the upcoming Gdium netbook have launched a new program they’re calling “One Laptop Per Hacker.” The goal is to build a more robust developer community around the company’s unusual netbook platform. The Gdium uses a custom version of Mandriva Linux which runs from a removable USB flash drive called the G-Key. Because […]

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Psion explains its trademark position, probably won’t sue me

Psion, the company that holds the trademark for the word “netbook” is attempting to better explain why it sent cease & desist letters to some bloggers and web sites recently. Apparently most of the entities on the receiving end were advertisers and computer makers using the term to describe their products, not journalists and bloggers. […]

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So what exactly can you do with the NVIDIA ION platform?

Now that we know Intel isn’t going to block NVIDIA from pairings its grpahics chips with the Intel Atom processor, it’s time to take another look at what kind of performance NVIDIA’s new ION platform really offers. NVIDIA has said the platform will offer 10 times the graphics performance you get from the Intel Atom […]