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...with tiny 8-in. screens and cramped keyboards, are bulking up to challenge full-sized, full-featured notebook computers - albeit with higher prices. At Computex, Taiwan-based Acer is showing off its $499 Aspire One 751h netbook, which features an 11.6-in. screen and a standard-sized keyboard. Campbell Kan, Acer's VP of Mobile Computing, says the device, which debuted in April, is selling particularly well in Europe, where telecommunications companies are selling the Aspire One for one euro to customers who sign two-year contracts for 3G service. "We can't deliver enough to meet demand," Kan says...
...Netbooks are refining their role as an on-the-go Internet device. "The mobile phone is always on," says Kan, "so ideally netbooks should be like this." At Computex, Acer became the first manufacturer to unveil a computer that will use Google's Android operating system, created for smartphones, that will boot up in less than 20 seconds. It will be on the market in the third quarter of this year. Taiwanese consumer electronics maker BenQ plans to launch a netbook running Google's Android operating system next year. (Watch a video about dropping your laptop from 3 feet...
...House tutor Jennifer Kan Martinez's famous homemade cupcakes (Dunster...
...compete with established high-speed standards - means that tens of billions of dollars may be spent on networks that will be outdated within a few years when countries such as Japan are set to begin rolling out faster 4G services. "The life of 3G is almost over," Professor Kan Kaili of the Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications told reporters when the licenses were announced. "There is no point in China getting on the last train to leave the station...
...Stimulus or no, Kan, one of the fiercest critics of the rollout, maintains that the vast majority of China's mobile users have no interest in paying for faster phones. "Until now, 3G service providers across the world are all having a hard time struggling with little market demand...