Give me a real netbook any day of the week. Touch screen is nice, but I just can’t get on the Apple band wagon. I’ve tried, believe me I’ve tried. The sad part is, we’re conditioned to Apple’s dictatorship. There’s no expectation of an Apple device to allow you to do what you want with it. We’ve never known freedom with any apple device, so why should we expect it now?

I use the little green laptop on recreational travel because the wifi signal strength is much better than your average laptop and it’s been less likely to get stolen since most people look at it and think it’s a toy. Hopefully they’ll release the next version of the laptop soon so i’ll have one to play with again! So long XO.

The Craigavon Task Forc, established shortly after an iBurst tower was built just north of Johannesburg in Fourways Memorial Park on 12 August 2009, has battled with iBurst to get the tower relocated elsewhere due to concerns over radiation from the tower causing a long list of health problems. Little did residents know, the tower was shut off more than six weeks ago.

The Nexus One was released today! Built by HTC, the unlocked version is $530 (the phone works with “nearly all” GSM SIM cards, according to Google) or you can pay $180 for the typical two-year contract with T-Mobile. if you already have tmob service, but don’t have a data plan, it will cost $280 for the phone. Google says there will be other carriers and plans coming sometime in the future. I think the arrival of the Google phone pretty much spells the end for the Droid.

The Uruguay programme has cost the state $260 (£159) per child, including internet connections, equipment repairs, maintenance costs, and training for the teachers, but the extent to which they use the laptops in the classroom is up to them. Meanwhile, pilot programs in Ethiopia with the OLPC XO laptop are stalling. Teachers resent the device and consider it a toy.

Smarter tabs, Opera turbo, widgets, cache control, dragonfly, speed dial, and all the little things like middle mouse clicks to open tabs.

The small size of the eeePC makes it a handy little machine to take with you anywhere you go. There’s plenty of smart phones out there that are just as expensive or more and lack 90% of the features of a netbook. Sporting a freshly installed eeeBuntu, the netbook does the job of browsing and word processing with an Atom N280 chip, 1024×600 back-lit LCD, two gigs of memory, Ethernet, wifi, three USB ports and a VGA port. The latest version of eeeBuntu Linux was installed from a USB live image.

The model has strong principals, but the goals blow my mind. I’ll explain in a minute, check out the principles first.

and then I ran across this post with palm and blackberry users whining about their crappy devices, praying for the next gen linux smartphone gods to save them.