Last year ABI Research forecast that approximately 35 million netbooks would ship into world markets in the course of the year – an estimate was viewed in some quarters as unrealistically high – they were wrong, by the end of 2009 36.3 million netbooks shipped. This year they estimate 58 million netbooks will be shipped…
Day: 17 May 2010
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Mobiles and cancer? The jury is still out
The results of a new international survey on the links between cancer and mobile phone use has been published, and the conclusion is that there’s no link that they could find, but that it still needs some research, particularly for the effects of “long-term heavy use”. Luckily that research is ongoing and the research that…
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Google nix Nexus online
Google have had a slight mid-course correction with the Nexus, and have decided to leave selling mobiles to the big boys in store, and to concentrate on pushing Android via online. Andy Rubin, VP, Engineering at Google in an announcement on his blog on Friday, “Nexus One changes in availability”, described the reasons for Google’s…