Intel's Wireless Chip Guru Anand Chandrasekher Leaves

The onetime rising star who ran Intel’s hugely successful Centrino platform last decade couldn’t work the same magic with Atom, which has not yet lived up to expectations.

Two Little Laptops With a Lot to Offer Their Core Users

Walt Mossberg reviews Dell’s M11x and Sony’s Vaio X, two diminutive laptops aimed at radically different customers.

Nokia "Mini-Laptop": Like a Netbook, but With a Completely Different Name

The world’s largest mobile phone maker has finally entered the PC market. Not a week after confirming its interest in the netbook market, Nokia leapt into it, uncrating the Booklet 3G–a 2.8-pound “mini-laptop.”
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Nokia “Mini-Laptop”: Like a Netbook, but With a Completely Different Name

The world’s largest mobile phone maker has finally entered the PC market. Not a week after confirming its interest in the netbook market, Nokia leapt into it, uncrating the Booklet 3G–a 2.8-pound “mini-laptop.”
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Sony Apparently Recovering From Netbookaphobia

If the netbook market is a race to the bottom, then Sony is bringing up the rear. Not a year after Sony execs disparaged netbooks as undeserving of its premium brand attention, the company announced its token entry into the market: the Vaio W.
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Verizon Now Sells Subsidized Netbook With Cell Service

Verizon’s H-P Mini netbook is an adequate light-duty computer for a low price, but the charge for Internet service is high if used as a main online connection.

Netbooks Come Into Their Own

Walt reviews the latest entrants in the “netbook” category–devices that are between a laptop and a smart phone in size and versatility–and finds some compelling choices.

Netbooks Vs. Notebooks: ThinkEquity Sees New Smaller Devices Eating Into Revenues, Profits At Apple, Intel

Is the notebook market slowing down? ThinkEquity analyst Vijay Rakesh thinks so. This morning, in fact, he trimmed estimates on both Apple (AAPL) and Intel (INTC) on concerns about a slowdown in the notebook market.

What's Under Three Pounds, Under $500 and Underpowered?

Add Lenovo to the ever-lengthening list of PC makers turning their attention to the ultra-mobile PC market, that new category of extraneous mobile computing devices the electronics industry seems so determined to create.

What’s Under Three Pounds, Under $500 and Underpowered?

Add Lenovo to the ever-lengthening list of PC makers turning their attention to the ultra-mobile PC market, that new category of extraneous mobile computing devices the electronics industry seems so determined to create.