Apple’s iPad promises to become the “magical and revolutionary product” of 2010. The long-expected touch-screen tablet device is becoming a sensation before it’s released for sale. It occurred that the preorders of the device are “hundreds of thousands”. According to The Wall Street Journal material if this keeps up, Apple could end up selling more iPads in the first three months than original iPhones sold the first three months after its debut those sources. It's still not clear if that means actual sales only, or if that includes reservations for in-store pickups of the device. Apple.com is taking reservations for customers who want to pick up a device in a store on the first day of sale, April 3, but it doesn't require a credit card to be put down. It means that if they don't pick up the device by 3 p.m. that day the iPad reservation is canceled. In other words, a reservation should not yet be counted as a sale, but again it's not entirely...

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Forget about the Google phone. What do you think of a Google-branded netbook? That's the latest rumor that emerged after a report from TechCrunch that says the company is planning to build a netbook based on its operating system Chrome. TechCrunch cites an interview during which Google said it was working with several prominent hardware manufacturers who were interested in the Chrome OS. Among them are Acer, Lenovo, HP and Qualcomm. A direct quote says: “The Google Chrome OS team is currently working with a number of technology companies to design and build a device that will provide customers with extraordinary performance. Among them are Acer, Adobe, ASUS, Freescale, Hewlett-Packard, Lenovo, Qualcomm, Texas Instruments, and Toshiba.” Besides, TechCrunch cites multiple sources who claim that Google has been talking to at least one hardware manufacturer about building a netbook for Google directly. In the report, it’s said that since Google had given...

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Last week, Asus presented to the public it new device – the company’s first multi-touch netbook, the Eee PC T91MT. The device offers a swivel screen that supports Microsoft's Windows 7 Multi-Touch gestures. The netbook weighs about a kilo and it’s with about one inch thicker than the other machines in this class, which make the small computer really comfortable for use. Asus representative explained that the netbook’s multi-touch functionality makes the interaction between the user and the computer perfectly intuitive and effortless. Moreover, this functionality encourages users to show their own creativity. Moreover, supporting Windows 7 Multi-Touch gestures, the netbook enables the possibility almost every task to be performed with a tap, drag, pinch or flick. According to the company, the netbook is designed to be always on the road – its portability is improved with a shockproof 32 GB SSD (solid state drive), and an additional online storage...

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