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The rumor at last week’s CTIA conference is that Barnes & Noble is looking for a partner to power it’s own eBook reader with “Whispernet-like” functionality. Sprint and AT&T are in the running, supposedly. (What will they call it? The Flicker? As in “Flicker of hope of competing with Amazon”? )
If this is going [...]

jkkmobile has branded the new 10 cell 13000mAh battery for the Asus Eee PC 901 as the “ugliest battery ever”. (It makes the 9-cell for my Acer Aspire One look svelte!)

The 10-cell behemoth was received recently by an EeeUser forum member who posted images of his new battery on the forums. According to JKK, the [...]

Buy.com has a product listing for the Lenovo IdeaPad S9. Why is that surprising? Because it wasn’t supposed to be available in the U.S.!
Like the S10, the S9 has a 1.6GHz Intel Atom CPU but instead of the 10-inch display of the S10, it has a 8.9-inch display. The S9 also appears to have [...]

Here’s another Apple Netbook rumor though this time, hypothesized by the folks at Apple Matters. Hadley Stern cites these five reasons why we’ll see an Apple Netbook at MacWorld in January:
Reason 1: It’s the economy, stupid
Reason 2: Chips, chips, chips
Reason 3: The iPhone
Reason 4: Steve gets to say he invented it
Reason 5: Another reason to [...]

Holiday promotions or a response to the economy?
Regardless of the reason, both HP and Lenovo have lowered the prices of their flagship netbooks.
Laptoping reported that HP will be reducing the price of the Mini 1000 to $359.99, down from $399.99. As a reminder, specs for that machine include an 8.9-inch display, 1.6GHz Intel Atom N270 [...]