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...Asus Eee PC 1000HE Taiwanese tech titan Asus has mastered the art of making teensy, high-performance PCs. The 1000HE ($530) has a zippier processor than its rivals (making for smooth HD video playback) and a 9.5-hour battery. But that all adds bulk - at 3.2 lb (1.5 kg), it's one of the heaviest netbooks around. www.asus.com...
...ambition, and this combination has harmed Microsoft. It has an over-abundance of smart people who have far too little to do. The company's core software divisions require a large number of software engineers and product development staff, but these people are primarily updating products in Microsoft's PC, server, and office Windows products. There may be some innovation in the creation of new versions of these offerings, but a great deal of the work is the equivalent of maintenance. (See pictures of Bill Gates: The Early Years...
...expansion into less expensive and less powerful chips for netbooks and other portable devices may drive significant revenue growth once the economy begins to recover. Shares sold short in Intel as of April 15 were over 80 million, down 15%. Intel's positive remarks about sales in the PC market in its most recent earnings release may have driven some short sellers out of their positions. Intel shares are up 30% from a one-year bottom in late February. Intel trades heavily with an average volume of 72.7 million shares...
...Microsoft (MSFT), the most shorted large tech company traded on any U.S. exchange, is a nearly ideal way to bet against software. It has dominant global market share in PC, server, and enterprise products used by large companies and governments. Microsoft is no longer considered a growth stock by Wall St., but it remains one of the most impressive corporate cash flow machines in the world. Microsoft's ongoing battle with Google (GOOG) over search and desktop software keeps it in the headlines regularly, and its quest to get control of Yahoo!'s (YHOO) search engine operation has gone...
...biggest winners here, for instance, is Adobe, whose Air engine (it's free and runs on any PC, Macintosh or Linux computer) will drive many, if not most, of the new Facebook applications. Air creates, in geek parlance, a "run time" - think of it as a universal mini-operating system across all computers. Developers, writing in Flash, can build an application once, and it runs on any computer. About 100 million people have installed it to date. Its most popular application? Tiny programs that make Twitter easier to use than its lean website interface. (See, for instance, Tweetdeck...