Nvidia sneaks in Tegra platform on HP Mini

Recently we reviewed the Via Nano-based Samsung NC20 and came away quite impressed. With the bulk of Netbooks using Intel's Atom platform, this may be the year when competing chipsets start popping up.
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MSI Wind U115 Hybrid: Goes for hours and hours and hours

Can you feel the way the wind is blowing? The MSI Wind U115 Hybrid laptop has been officially announced today, amid claims of a stonking 12 hour battery life.

It's been a big day for MSI here at Crave. We've seen the quad-core MSI GT725, along with the X-Slim X320 and X340 laptops, and the Wind U123 netbook.
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Google restores tethering app for Android users outside US

Google confirmed that it pulled a Wi-Fi tethering application from the Android Market because it violated T-Mobile's terms of service, but said it hadn't intended to pull that application from the market entirely.

Earlier this week an Android developer said his tethering application--designed to let PC or Mac users get on the Internet through their Android phones--was removed entirely from the Android market because T-Mobile, the exclusive US carrier of the only Android phone on sale in the US, does not allow tethering. T-Mobile users still can't get that application, a Google spokesperson said, but the ban should not have applied to Android users running HTC's Dream phone in Singapore and Australia, as well as those who paid extra for an unlocked phone.
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Toshiba's April Fools' joke sent us slobbering for more

It may be only a prank from the Japanese company, but the idea is just too cute not to share.

Warning: The following is an April Fool's joke and not a product or even a concept model. This is purely for entertainment purposes only.

If man can use computers to better his life, why not one for man's best friend? The PetBook K9 is a laptop made from an organic rawhide casing that is delicious and vitamin-enriched, in case your pet gets a little hungry after a night of intensive Internet chatting.
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Why Android (probably) won't work on Netbooks

We've seen several stories recently (including one by our own Maggie Reardon) about how HP and other companies are considering using an operating system based on Google's Android platform for Netbook laptops, replacing the ubiquitous Windows XP. Examining the short history of the unexpectedly popular Netbook market, it seems unlikely that Android will be able to gain a foothold.

The very first Netbooks ran Linux operating systems, usually with a custom front-end to give users easy access to a Web browser and other frequently used apps. But as well-intentioned as that plan was, it wasn't until PC makers added the already archaic Windows XP operating system that the Netbook craze took off.
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