LAS VEGAS--So-called Netbooks or mini-notebooks are all the rage at the Consumer Electronics Show. A number of PC companies including Dell, Acer, Lenovo, and HP have unveiled notebook PCs that are smaller, less expensive, and more energy efficient than traditional notebook PCs.
In this podcast, Hewlett-Packard's Marco Pena shows off a new business Netbook.
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Industry pioneer Energy Conversion Devices, which makes flexible solar collectors, files for bankruptcy protection and intends to sell of its solar businesses.
Cutting Edge
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Apple is taking fire from a Chinese company that says it still owns the iPad trademark there--and which now wants an import and export ban.
Apple Talk
While some are blaming technology for an increase in one night stands, perhaps it's simply the brevity with which people communicate by phone that suggests swift progress to sexual congress.
Technically Incorrect
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A startup from Australia has built a social network around live video--and it's already in 137 countries. The key challenge, of course, is to get more users.
Bootstrap
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When the sun goes down, that's when the iPad gets busy for folks with news readers. The iPhone? It's more of a daytime habit. If you're building an app for both devices, heed the lesson.
Geek Gestalt
Primus Green Energy has developed a process to convert wood pellets and natural gas into a high-octane gasoline. But can they do it cheap enough?
Cutting Edge
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Greek multimedia artist Petros Vrellis would like you to be able to touch a Van Gogh without getting tackled by a security guard.
Crave
EnerG2 opens a plant to make an engineered carbon that will improve performance of energy storage devices and make storage for start-stop hybrid cars less expensive.
Cutting Edge
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Technically Incorrect
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As founder of SafeKids.com and co-director of ConnectSafely.org, Larry Magid has a special interest in Internet safety, including debunking myths like a predator behind every screen and messages like "be afraid, very afraid."
