IDC’s has released its market report for the second quarter of 2009, and it contains little in the way of good news for beleaguered PC vendors. Worldwide PC shipments are down 2.4 percent year-over-year, as businesses and consumers continued to hold off on upgrades and new purchases. Adding to the misery was serious margin compression—aggressive discounting [...]

A typical flow of people passed through the laptop section in the 20 minutes I was there. Toward the end, all of the remaining customers (a few men and women, each) were marveling at all the cute, inexpensive laptops. Cute, inexpensive laptops to them, Netbooks to us in the media who like cut-and-dried categories… Tweet [...]

Nokia Corp. Wednesday priced its first netbook computer at the high end of the market as it also highlighted new music phones and multimedia services, including a “Lifecasting” offering that integrates its phones with social-networking service Facebook. Nokia’s Booklet 3G, the closely watched netbook it unveiled last week, will ship at €575 ($818) before subsidies [...]

We heard that MSI may release a touchscreen netbook with Intel’s next generation Pine Trail Atom platform, and it will. According to MSI, the new Intel Atom chipset is planned to be officially launched at CES… Tweet This Post