Asus To Ship 60 Percent Of Eee PCs With Windows XP
News Asus has said that around 60 percent of its Eee PCs shipped this year will come with Windows XP pre-installed, according to reports. On Thursday, Reuters quoted Asus chairman Jonney Shih as saying: "About 60 percent of [Eee PCs] will have the...
[March 13, 2008, 11:02]
Next Windows Mobile Primed For Release
News Meanwhile, Taiwanese manufacturer Asus this week showed off a Windows 2003-based handheld with a VGA screen at the CeBit trade show in Germany. Next week Microsoft is expected to announce an update to its Windows Mobile operating system, which...
[March 19, 2004, 8:00]
Asus Eee Gets Upgrade And Windows
News Asus executives joined those from Microsoft on stage, as well as representatives of T-Mobile Germany, the operator which is to distribute the Eee PC bundled with free Wi-Fi minutes or HSDPA dongles. Asus chief executive Jerry Shen unveiled the Eee...
[March 4, 2008, 17:49]
Manufacturers Unwrap First Origami Ultra Mobile PCs
News The others were built by Asus and Founder, a Chinese technology company. And while the Samsung and Founder devices were operational and being used to play video, the Asus UMPC — the R2H — appeared to have run out of power.
[March 9, 2006, 10:30]
Photos: Origami Ultra Mobile PCs
News Intel's general manager for Europe, Christian Morales, introducing three Ultra Mobile Origami PCs — from Samsung, Asus and Founder — at CeBIT on 9 March. The R2H from Asus includes a high-resolution Webcam, a fingerprint scanner and &mdash in the...
[March 9, 2006, 12:55]
Xandros Expands Mobile Device Push
News Xandros, which makes the Windows-like Linux distribution used in Asus's popular Eee PC sub-laptop, has signed a deal with information-management software maker Viyya Technologies to jointly target portable devices such as laptops and mobile...
[May 6, 2008, 17:10]
Asus And Microsoft Unveil Eee Upgrade
News At the same event, Asus announceed a partnership with T-Mobile Germany, which will see the operator distribute Eee PCs with bundled Wi-Fi minutes or HSDPA dongles. We are in close discussions with Asus [regarding] how to take that forward… in...
[March 4, 2008, 17:28]
The Lowdown On Asus' Eee PC
Blog Comment My review about ASUS EEE PC: I became one of very few privileged consumers in Canada to own the Asus EEE PC model 701 version with 4 GB drive. This is a *** pre-production *** model and I bought it from a company that did an online review for Asus.
[September 28, 2007, 9:31]
Gates Lays Out Vision For Future Tech
News As for PCs, Microsoft plans to show off a new Lamborghini laptop from Asus, as well as Lenovo's new IdeaPad consumer laptop line, which includes a model that uses flash memory rather than a hard drive for storage.
[January 7, 2008, 7:16]
Can Linux Forget Desktops And Servers?
Blog There's the Asus Eee PC, and an expected rush of other devices, joining the few that have seeded that segment, like the Nokia N800 tablet. Windows Mobile hasn't done that well outside the US, which has always been a smaller and freakier mobile...
[November 26, 2007, 14:48]
Surveys Show Vista Struggling One Year On
News Three launches back this up, said Moody: "The Asus Eee PC looks likely to spawn a new category of ultra-small, ultra-cheap, mobile PCs. Finally, if Google's mobile-phone stack, Android, takes off, we could be seeing hundreds of millions, or even...
[November 23, 2007, 17:36]
UMPC: Better, But The Jury's Still Out
Blog We've just reviewed our second Ultra Mobile PC (UMPC), the R2H from ASUS. It's taken until now to get our hands on a second UMPC, and the ASUS R2H is a big improvement. In case you'd forgotten, the UMPC caused something of a stir back in February...
[December 6, 2006, 12:33]
Ultra Mobile PCs Need Better Battery Life, Says Gartner
News The first examples were displayed at CeBIT this week by manufacturers including Asus, Samsung, and Founder. Ultra Mobile PCs (UMPCs) face the same problem as previous tablet PCs in that their battery life is not long enough at the moment for...
[March 10, 2006, 15:55]
Ultimate Road-warrior Tech At CeBIT
News Asus has been amazed at the interest shown by corporate buyers who are looking for a light computer that can be used for email, writing and web browsing, as well as being perfectly suitable for spreadsheet work and presentations — if you can can...
[March 7, 2008, 11:36]
IDF: Ultramobile Intel Processor Breaks Cover, Adopts Linux, Gets Alliance.
Blog To that end, Intel has convened the Mobile Internet Device Innovation Alliance - the idea is that you'll only buy this stuff if it connects to the net by wireless, and that's not wrong - with its friends in Elektrobit, Compal, Asus, Quanta...
[April 18, 2007, 4:53]
Intel Launches Atom Power, Devices Due In June
News The MIDs, coming from companies such as Lenovo, Asus and Panasonic, will run Windows or Linux and are being promoted as the functional equivalent of a wireless-connected PC in pocket format. The new chips, described by the company as entirely Core...
[April 2, 2008, 10:41]
