"It has been an exciting CES with lots of updates and Razer teases everyone with "Switchblade" What is Switchblade? Razer quotes it as a revolution in PC gaming on a portable gaming device. Razer did indicate that the Switchblade will be powered by Intel's Atom processor, running on Windows 7. It supports mini-HDMI, USB 3.0 and the standard headphone and microphone ports.

Behold Googles Awesome Power! First the Phones and now the Netbooks.

Seems like only yesterday that we were talking about the HP Compaq Airlife 100 Android netbook -- oh, wait, it was, both here and on the special Emergency PalmCast Broadcast in the wake of HP buying Palm for $1.2 billion.

German researchers claim new world record.

Researchers have set a new record for energy efficient data sorting with a system based on netbook processors and Solid State Disks (SSD).

The system, dubbed EcoSort, was developed at Goethe University and Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), and more than tripled the power efficiency of former record holders.

Records were defined by 'Sort Benchmark', which was created by missing Microsoft scientist Jim Gray and was now managed by representatives of companies like of Hewlett-Packard, Microsoft.

CITY OF INDUSTRY, CA – March 11, 2010 – MSI Computer, recently donated a number of MSI Wind U100 Netbooks to the Virginia Tech Music Department to help create the first ever Linux-based laptop orchestra. The diverse group is made up of theater arts, political science, engineering, biology and math majors and called the L2Ork, in honor of the open source software used by the group.

CITY OF INDUSTRY, CA – January 26, 2010 – MSI Computer, a leading manufacturer of computer hardware products and solutions, is proud to announce the availability of the MSI Wind U135 netbook. These special edition netbooks commemorate the millions of Wind models sold globally and are the first to feature the powerful, yet efficient Intel Pine Trail Platform with the Atom™ N450 processor .

Moblin v2.1 adds new features and developments and will be used as the base for future new user experience support for Mobile Internet Devices (MIDs), in-vehicle infotainment (IVI), and embedded devices, such as media phones. The release target for Moblin v2.1 for netbooks and nettops is expected to release to the community in Q4 2009.

The Moblin Architecture is designed to support multiple platforms and usage models ranging from Netbooks to Mobile Internet Devices (MID), to various embedded usage models, such as the In Vehicle Infotainment systems. The central piece of the architecture is the common layer we call "Moblin Core", a hardware and usage model independent layer that provides one uniform way to develop such devices.