The latest laptop news from around the web for April 7th:
- Acer Issues Upbeat Outlook on Portable Devices – eWeek – Acer issued upbeat forecasts for its own second quarter and for the year it expects that global netbook shipments will double. Acer estimated that its Q2 PC shipments will grow 25 to 30 percent. It also expects its shipment of notebooks and low-cost …
- Orange deputies arrest car-burglary suspects, recover stolen department laptop (Orlando Sentinel) – Orange County deputy sheriffs arrested two suspects in a series of car burglaries early Monday in a neighborhood near Florida's Turnpike and discovered another deputy's stolen laptop computer.
- Missing State Laptop Had Commercial Licensees Info (KITV Honolulu) – The personal information of about 1,900 commercial vehicle drivers license holders is lost when a state laptop disappears.
- Behind the Scenes of the Netbook Boom (New York Times) – The growth of the thin, Internet-centric computers known as netbooks has been a mixed blessing for computer and chip makers, as the low-cost devices are challenging already dismal profit margins. But some companies are enjoying the emergence of this new category of computers.
- Google CEO sees newspaper future in advertising (AP) – <p><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/tech/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090407/ap_on_hi_te/google_newspapers"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20090407/capt.fec385bede36467ebad81bcb3a09f287.google_newspapers_cadp105.jpg?x=130&y=96&q=85&sig=8zDT3JgGz62hSPWerGryCw–" align="left" height="96" width="130" alt="Google Chief Executive officer Eric Schmidt points out the size of a reporter's laptop computer during news conference after giving the keynote address at the Newspaper Association of America annual convention in San Diego Tuesday, April 7, 2009. (AP Photo/Denis Poroy)" border="0" /></a>AP – Google Inc.'s chief executive told newspaper publishers Tuesday that they should continue to rely on advertising but seek new ways to reach readers.</p><br clear="all"/>
- Woman’s Laptop, Drunk’s Career Saved by Facebook (Valleywag) – Carla Pillo Mote, an executive director at a Philadelphia advertising agency, used Facebook-stalking skills to track down the drunk guy who stole her laptop, tax files, and wallet. Too much…
- Total Targus Laptop Accessory Bundle for 38% Off – MobileMag – One of the best ways for you to save some serious cash is to buy into bundles rather than buying the individual components on their own. Whether you're in the market for a new laptop or you're in need of some basic accessories for your existing …
- Edison driver tells of 3-hour laptop lapse – Hong Kong Standard – Edison Chen Koon-hei's driver testified yesterday that he let Chen's laptop computer out of his sight for about three hours after he took the MacBook Pro in for repairs at a computer shop in Central. Wong Hing-cheung told Kowloon City Magistrates …
- Police search for SLC laptop burglar (ABC 4 Salt Lake City) – SALT LAKE CITY (ABC 4 News) – Salt Lake City Police Department detectives are seeking the public’s help in identifying a suspect they say stole a laptop and a personal…
- Microsoft says that it holds over 90% of the netbook OS market – DailyTech – With the proliferation of netbooks on the market today and the massive popularity of the category, it's hard to fathom that the netbook really only took off in late 2007. Today, netbooks are the fastest growing computer category and the netbook is …
- The psychic pain of a laptop laproscopy (Independent Press) – My laptop had a stroke. There were no warning signs. One minute all my gigahertz and jigawatts were working fine, and the next; nothing…nada…zippo. It wasn't a sniffle or a snort. It was sudden death….
- Windows Dominates Netbook OS Market (AnandTech) – Microsoft says that it holds over 90% of the netbook OS market…
- HP ZD7010US 17 Inch Wide Screen LCD Laptop and Exspansion Base (WTAJ-TV Altoona) – HP Laptop 3.0 Gigahertz Intel P-4 HT Processor, 1 Gigahertz Memory, DVD Burner, 80 Gigabyte Hard Drive, NVida Dedicated Video Card 64 Megabytes, Good Battery, 5 in 1 Memory Card Reader, HP Exsansion Base. This laptop is in Excellent Condition. Keyboard, Bezel and Touchpad show little use.
- Dell Inspiron 1000 Wireless Laptop (WTAJ-TV Altoona) – Nice Clean Dell Inspiron Laptop with wireless Card. Intel Celeron Processor at 2.2 Gigahertz, 512 Megabytes Memory, 30 Gig Hard Drive, CDRW-DVD Drive, new Battery, AC Adapter. 15 Inch LCD Screen. Unit is nice and Clean and all ports work.
- Teens Arrested After Laptop, Mp3 Player Stolen (FOX 8 WGHP) – Two teenagers were arrested after stealing a Mp3 player and laptop on Monday.
- Laptops? They are so yesterday. Try a netbook (The Farmington Daily Times) – Laptops? They are so yesterday. Try a netbook
- Sentimental photos were on stolen laptop (Redditch Standard) – POLICE are appealing for the safe return of a laptop computer containing a woman’s sentimental photographs.
- Kensington® Introduces Five Essentials for Netbook Enthusiasts – WebWire – Smart made simple™ Design Brings All You Need — Mice, Lock, Charger and Sleeve — to Accompany Your Netbook Redwood Shores, Calif.- Kensington Computer Products Group, a worldwide leader in delivering smart made simple™ computing accessories for …
- HP Launches Pavilion dv2 Notebook for $749 – Toms Hardware – Some of you might recognize the HP Pavilion dv2 from CES. The company showed off the 12.1-inch notebook in Las Vegas in January and we gotta say that HP has really scored a hat-trick with this one. The dv2 offers portability along with power …
- ‘Dutch women prefer desktop for online searches’ – TMCnet – Apr 07, 2009 (DMEUROPE via COMTEX) — Woman in the Netherlands use the internet more than men, with 70 percent accessing the internet via their fixed PC, 30 percent via a laptop and 1 percent from their mobile phone, a study reported. The Digital …
- Sneaky raider takes laptop (Peterborough Today) – A SNEAKY burglar crept into a house through an unlocked door and snatched a laptop while the homeowner was in another room. (07/04/2009)
- Netbook PC LCD Shipments to Nearly Quadruple by 2012 – TMCnet – (M2 PressWIRE Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) El Segundo, Calif — Shipments of low-cost netbook PC displays will nearly quadruple to 47.4 million units in 2012, up from 13.1 million units in 2008, as consumer demand for the inexpensive, small form …
- ZDNet News Special Coverage – ZDNet – For their pick of mobile devices, many consumers have decided that notebooks are too big, smartphones are too small, and netbooks might be just right. Meanwhile, companies are trying to decide if netbooks are powerful enough to run a business. In any …
- HP Pavilion dv2: Netbook or notebook? – ZDNet Blogs – If Goldilocks was in the market for a laptop, she might pick the new HP Pavilion dv2 . It’s not too big, and not too small. It sits between the large and expensive notebooks, and the small-screened netbooks — it’s just right. Announced at CES …
