Smish is a new app for organizing apps on your computer. The software is technically designed for any PC, with a Mac client coming soon. But it looks ideal for netbooks. Or maybe I’m just saying that because it looks like a cross between Moblin Linux and the Intel AppUp Center, which are both designed […]
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Intel AppUp Center (netbook app store) expands to Europe, Linux
Intel’s AppUp Center offers netbook users a single place to find and download applications optimized for netbooks with small displays and Intel Atom processors. You know, kind of like the iTunes App Store, but for netbooks instead of iPhones. Up until today, the AppUp Center was only available for Windows, which struck me as kind […]
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Intel to showcase netbook apps at Mobile World Congress
Intel is preparing to showcase a number of software applications designed to play well with Atom powered netbooks at Mobile World Congress in Spain next week. The company has been pushing its new Intel Atom Developer Program and AppUp Center app-store for netbooks. The idea is to offer programs for Windows and Linux netbooks that […]
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JooJoo tablet production starts, Web App Store on the way
One of Apple’s key selling points for the iPad (and iPhone, and iPod Touch) is an app store with over 140,000 applications designed to run on the devices. Of course, there are also thousands of applications designed to run on Windows, Linux, Windows Mobile, Google Android, and other platforms. But the app store paradigm has […]
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Acer working on Chrome OS notebooks, App Store, eBook reader
Acer appears to be branching out into pretty much every new area that’s getting even a slight bit of buzz. Bloomberg reports that the company has a notebook running Google Chrome OS coming in Q3, 2010. After the initial launch, Acer plans to offer Chrome on as many as 10 percent of the company’s netbooks. […]
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First look at the Intel app store for Moblin Linux – Video
The beta version of Intel’s app store for netbooks (or the AppUp Center, as Intel calls it) is only available for Windows at the moment. But Intel plans to roll out a Moblin Linux version soon, and Nicole from Netbook News got an early look at the Moblin version at CES. For the most part, […]
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Intel AppUp Center App Store for Atom netbooks is now live (in beta)
During his CES Keynote today, Intel CEO Paul Otellini announced that the company’s App Store for Intel Atom powered netbooks is now live. It’s called AppUp Center, and it lets you download applications for netbooks running either Windows or Moblin Linux, although as far as I can tell, only the Windows installer is available right […]
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Intel launches beta SDK for Intel Atom Developer Program
Just to put my cards on the table, I think the Intel Atom Developer Program makes about as much sense as a netbook with a 17 inch screen. The whole point of netbooks is that they’re fully functional computers, unlike smartphones and other mobile devices that offer only a limited feature set. And that means […]
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Intel shows Atom Pine Trail chip, unveils Atom developer program and app store
At the Intel Developer Forum in San Francisco today, Intel launched a new Intel Atom Developer Program. In other words, the company is trying to attract third party developers to write applications designed for use on netbooks and other devices that use the Intel Atom processor. Eventually Intel will launch an Atom App Store similar […]