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ASUS has finally unleashed the first of it's new 12-inch line of Netbooks into the wilds of Amazon and put the Eee 1201N up for pre-order on Amazon's US site in a choice of black or silver. With a release date of January 15th, the 1201N can be yours for $499.99, or the same price in Euros on Amazon's European sites (although not the UK site yet). Those lucky Europeans also have the option of purchasing the 1201N in red. - Netbooknews

ASUS has finally unleashed the first of it's new 12-inch line of Netbooks into the wilds of Amazon and put the Eee 1201N up for pre-order on Amazon's US site in a choice of black or silver. With a release date of January 15th, the 1201N can be yours for $499.99, or the same price in Euros on Amazon's European sites (although not the UK site yet). Those lucky Europeans also have the option of purchasing the 1201N in red. - Netbooknews

Learn about Jolicloud's online features and applications and how it is all integrated with its linux back end. - Netbooknews

Hands on with the Optima Mini Laptop which is a macbook air clone. Its 1280 x 800 resolution running on a Atom N270 Platform with a 3 cell battery. - Netbooknews

Posted by a French blog, the video above purporting to leak Apple’s touchscreen tablet is obviously a fake, but it’s fun to watch anyway. Check it out yourself and tell us if you can spot the stuff giving away its phoniness. - Netbooknews

Evan, Phil and Ron of the University of Vermont show off their Computer Science Final Project. They used an Acer Aspire One and built a Lego Chassis and this Rover Robot gets a tour of campus! They used a Wii remote over a wireless network to a netbook that remote controls the Rover robot through Bluetooth. They used Lejos 0.8.5 to program the brick. That's all the information I can give you about the little guy as the audio track has been disabled on this video. If you can fwd to about 1 minute to see it in action. Even with no audio its a pretty cool video to watch! - Netbooknews

The fine folks at Sewell have created an adaptor that goes from Mini-USB to dvi which will enable HDMI & VGA from your Netbook to power large monitors. - Netbooknews

Barnes and Noble have officially announced their ebook reader, the Barnes and Noble Nook. It offers dual displays and free 3G and WiFi b/g wireless. The nook has a 6-inch E Ink Vizplex E Ink display up top and a 3.5-inch color touchscreen underneath, with the whole thing based on Android and measuring 7.7 x 4.9 x 0.5-inches while tipping the scales at 11.2oz. B&N have partnered with AT&T for the nook’s 3G access, and owners will be able to use the retailer’s in-store WiFi connections for free as well. Here is the Unboxing - Netbooknews

Blump'it works as a Firefox plugin which is getting demoed on a custom tablet with an Intel Atom N270 cipset. Blump'it Software could soon be available as a Chrome Browser extension, to provide a bunch of user interface options on top of the browser and on top of any OS be it Windows, Linux or Mac. Installing the Blump'it features is just a one-click process. - Netbooknews

Thanks Brett & Larry! - Netbooknews

Jolicloud Express is now available for download, and its looking pretty slick! It automatically install Jolicloud for you, without erasing your current Windows install and gives you access to all of your windows content. The GUI is much improved from the alpha version to take a look at this quick walk through! - Netbooknews

At a conference full of the world's top tech influencers its always fun to see two big names talk to the same person. Mike Arrington of TechCrunch interviewed You Tube's Chris Hurley at Le Web '09 while Scoble filmed from the sidelines. It's fun to see Scoble challenge Arrington to a race to upload on YouTube, in the end Scoble did wait a day to get the interview posted. But we like this version better then the TechCrunch Version, its capture's the spirit of Le Web '09, competitive collaboration! - Netbooknews

Looking to remove that extra bit of stutter on the new 1080 You Tube upgrade?? Over clocking your netbook's video card will certainly help you get that extra bit of performance you might be looking for. You will need to Download GMA Booster 950 as all netbooks use Intel's GMA 950 graphics chip, which comes integrated with the motherboard of most Atom netbooks. The chip is also used on some notebooks and business desktop PCs. The next program you'll need to overclock you processor is ClockGen The Netbook that is getting overclocked in this video is a Samsung N130. Download these two programs and get overclocking!! - Netbooknews

Things haven't looked up in the Reviews for the Barnes & Noble Nook. Here is a hands on video for you to judge for your self. - Netbooknews

If you didn't feel good about Chrome, Google's new ad will certainly help you along the way! Its a dynamic video goes over some of Chrome's features. But really you just want to watch it because it makes you feel good! - Netbooknews

One on One up close and personal with Chris Pirillo Fonder of Lockergnome, he helps business refine their models specifically when dealing with community. Accodring to his website http://chris.pirillo.com/: He publishes a personal blog and lifecast to tens of thousands of viewers, and is a top subscribed partner on YouTube. When searching Google for “Chris,” his site is listed as the first result. He was formerly a monthly columnist for CPU Magazine, and has authored books on business and personal technology. Chris also produces weekly video segments for CNN.com Live, where he offers tech advice to a savvy audience. He records (on average) 1,000 videos per year, and had once cracked the “Top 100″ most subscribed throughout the whole of YouTube. His live stats are even more impressive: over 5 million unique live video viewers watched Chris do his “thing” in 2007 – a total of 2+ million LIVE viewer hours with an average viewing time of 25 minutes per visitor. In the month of August... - Netbooknews

rnaud Laprévote CTO Mandriva talks about Linux operating systems and the over all ecosystem in which they are competing at the Netbook World Summit in Paris France. The panel he was speaking on was entitled: Alternatives OS (Android, Moblin, Linux based, web OS...) - Netbooknews

Our very own Sascha Pallenberg @Sascha_P is at Le Web '09 in Paris. Here are the opening Remarks from Day 2, which go over the day's upcoming events and give some conference i - Netbooknews

On stage at Le Web '09 Mike Arrington from TechCrunch interviews Marissa Mayer on Real Time Search and Page Rank. - Netbooknews

Mike Arrington of TechCrunch sits down with YouTube cofounder Chad Hurley talks about his newest projects & his life at Le Web '09 in Paris. - Netbooknews

We all know Ion Netbooks have a bit of kick behind them so its always a pleasure to see someone gaming on them. We came across this video on You Tube from Mini Gaming, they let us know that the Mobii Ion Netbook comes with 1024x600 resolution an Intel Atom N230@1954Mhz, ION GPU@570/800/1250Mhz, 2GB RAM - Netbooknews

At a conference for the world's top blogger's you won't be coming to the table dial up!!! The connection that British Telecom put is actually good enough to start your very own ISP. Gary Shafer from BT gives Robert Scoble the skinny on connection that's keeping the world's best real time bloggers in the moment. - Netbooknews

Yesterday was The Netbook World Summit and mobile enthusiasts like Chippy & Jkk weren't in the audience but that doesn't mean that they didn't have a say! Listen to Chippy & Jkk chit chat about Netbooks, Windows CE, Tegra and the state of the industry. - Netbooknews

Founder of Le Web Loic LeMeur gives us details on what is going on at this years Le Web ‘09. Get a behind the scenes look at what it takes to put together a conference worthy of the world’s top bloggers. Via Andrea Vascellari - Netbooknews

Watch the Joliclouds new prebeta show off its improved boot up speed. The cloud based o/s is loaded on an ASUS 100HA with 2G or Ram. We also take a peak at the easy set up menu for installing it along side Windows. This new cloud based O/S for netbooks is looking very promising! Stay Tuned for more video's shortly. - Netbooknews

Le Web Founder Loic Le Meur has taken 3 video's documenting the the construction of the venue. LeWeb started in 2005 with only 250 attendees, second edition still in 2005 gathered 500 people, 1000 in 2006... and on December 2008, for its 5th edition, 1800 participants from 40 countries met in Paris. 2009 is the 6th edition of LeWeb, in Paris on dec 9th and 10th in Le cent Quatre. Here is the 1st video of the venue being set up with only 3 days to go!! - Netbooknews

oic & Geraldine Le Meur founders of Le Web 09 know that the real time web is taking the world by storm! Twitter has grown exponentially in one year with an extremely simple service that does only one thing keep you in touch with what your friends are doing, in real time. Facebook entirely redesigned its most important assets, its home page and opened its feed to third parties. Given the growth of the Twitter and Facebook ecosystems with thousands of applications and new uses, startups as well all major players are adapting their services to compete in this environment. There was the static web, the social web and now here comes a new web: the real-time web. Listen to their opening remarks here: - Netbooknews

Anti-glare has to be one of my biggest pet peeves about most netbooks, manufacturers are starting to get it, but what about the netbook you already have in your life?? I am not actually brave enough to try this on a friends netbook and the guy in the video is showing us on a dropped Eee Pc 900. But never the less it looks entirely possible to remove the anti-glare on a non trashed netbook and still have it be perfectly functional. - Netbooknews

Learn about the possibilities of NFC (Near Field Communications) from Laurent Renard. His company Toro is dedicated to developing mobile software and services around this innovative new technology. He explains some usage scenarios for NFC and netbooks as well as mobile phones. Toro is a French Company based in Taiwan, as the Netbook World Summit is based in Paris went looking for a Taiwan connection to France & found one in NFC. - Netbooknews

Here is a demonstration at Le Web '09 conference in Paris from Charbax of the Seesmic application for Android running on the Archos 5 Internet Tablet with Android, the worlds first Android Tablet with a 800x480 medium density 4.8" touch screen and even with a 720p HDMI output. - Netbooknews