If you are eyeing and planning to get a notebook, and you are considering Eee PC’s that most people talks about, well, better  look for another model or brand (preferably Asus) that has the same price but much effiecient and has the ability to support everything  .  The reason is that Asus is phasing out the 8.9in Eee PCs within this year according to a company executive.  Even though a couple of high ranking official of Asus had indirectly said that the 8.9in Eee PC models will be phased out. The phasing out was mainly based on consumer preference for the 10in models which uses hard drives while the latter are using SSDs.

So, if you plan to buy notebook, make it as your habit to research first ten times….

When we talk about technology boys are always the one who are active with it. Boys have different gadgets, talk about gadgets, talks about programming, talks about anything and especially technological topics. But girls? well, fashions, about their new hair style and color of their finger nails. That is way back 19 century. This century is different because even girls must be “in” in terms of technology news and gadgets.

Do you want to have proof? Try to visit Kathy’s PinaytechBlog.com and you will find what I am talking about…

BARCELONA–Intel announced here Monday at the GSMA Mobile World Congress that LG Electronics will use its latest generation technology to build a new class of device called mobile Internet devices, or MIDs.

Specifically, Intel and LG will work together to build these new devices using a processor that Intel has code-named Moorestown. The devices will also use a version of the Linux open-source operating system called Moblin. The LG device is expected to be one of the first Moorestown designs to market. And Intel has said that devices using the new Moorestown chips will hit the market by 2010.

Intel and LG have already been working closely together on other products. In the fourth quarter last year, LG launched a Netbook using Intel’s Atom processor. And LG also ships full-fledged notebooks using Intel’s Core processor.

Now, the companies are working on a new class of product that are mini-computers that can also be used to make phone calls using a wireless Internet connection. Intel sees the category of product as something that is somewhere between a smartphone, like the Apple iPhone, and a Netbook, a scaled-down version of a notebook computer.

As the global economy continues to deteriorate, Intel, like many other large companies, is looking for growth markets. The company’s bread-and-butter PC processor business is suffering as people stop buying desktop computers.

Intel sees mobile devices, and specifically the MID market, as an important area for growth. While the overall cell phone market was down about 12.6 percent worldwide in the fourth quarter, according to IDC, smartphones were actually up about 22.5 percent. Read more…