New Netbook and slim 13-inch laptops from MSI

While they're not the first name that comes to mind when thinking of Netbooks, PC maker MSI earned a lot of ink last year for its MSI Wind U100, one of the first 10-inch Netbooks to hit the market.

The follow-up, called the Wind U123, has Intel's latest Atom, the N280, as well as a TV tuner and optional 3G antenna. It'll also come in red and blue, in addition to the standard white and grey versions we saw with the U100.
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Faltering economy boosting Netbooks

While there's been discussion lately about what the best operating system for a Netbook is, there is no question that the small form factor PC is a runaway hit with consumers.

In DisplaySearch's Quarterly Notebook PC Shipment and Forecast Report for the first quarter of 2009, the research firm says Netbooks are on track to grow 65 percent over the course of the year from 2008's totals. Conversely, traditional notebooks are expected to grow just 3 percent this year. And, according to DisplaySearch, Netbooks will comprise one fifth of the 133 million notebooks to be shipped in 2009.
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Snow White and her Apple

In what could possibly be the coolest MacBook cover ever, Flickr user LübeckerJung put a picture of Snow White holding the Apple logo. For those not familiar with this fairytale, Snow White bites into a poisoned apple and falls into a coma, awakened only by some prince later on. The one thing that would make this mod even better was if she was standing on the right, so the bite would be on the correct side.

We don't have the details for this bit of art--whether it is a vinyl sticker or painted on. And it looks like this picture is all the information we'll be getting for now because the original image has been deleted from Flickr.

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Latest mobile broadband module offers a new bag of tricks

Swedish telecoms provider Ericsson claims that its F3607gw mobile broadband module is the company's most advanced effort yet, and according to its specs, we tend to agree. The unit not only allows laptops to hook up to HSDPA, GPRS and EDGE networks, it also includes some nifty new features that will bring mobile computing to another level.

For units equipped with this new module, the wake-on wireless feature remotely starts a notebook in sleep mode. This allows a machine with Intel's Anti-Theft PC Protection Technology to be disabled if stolen as well as permits important messages and security updates to be "pushed" to the laptop.
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LogMeIn's remote access plan for Netbooks

A Netbook's extremely limited hard drive space (typically half that of a laptop and one third of that for a desktop) makes it terrible for storing files, but its Internet-connectedness and light weight make it ideal for carrying around.

LogMeIn, a company best known for its free and pro-level remote access applications, is looking for carriers and Netbook manufacturers to preload its LogMeIn Ignition remote access software onto Netbooks so that consumers will be able to view and edit photos and documents from their main desktop or laptop computer from their tiny Netbooks. The deal would give carriers that sell Netbooks with mobile broadband plans and Netbook-makers two products in one--the remote tools for users to access their main computers, and an IT administration tool for themselves--called LogMeIn Rescue+ Mobile--that would let their support staff remotely access your Netbook for troubleshooting purposes. Both might become available to you for an additional fee.

Of course, for customers to use LogMeIn, their primary computer must be turned on--that's fine when you're planning to work remotely, but a stumbling block if your need to view files is more sudden.
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