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While it’s surely a mockup right now, the picture above might not be so far off from a 10″ Mac Netbook from Apple rumored to be approaching Q3 of 2009.
The movement in the industry that seems to have tipped Apple’s hand early (besides everyone waiting for a Netbook from Apple for about 20 years now) [...]

Laurence Hartje just sent in a mini-review of the BlackBerry Storm on the Vodafone network, here it is in it’s entirety:
I’ve been lusting after a Storm, and since it launched in England before the US (and I’m over here at the moment) I thought I’d swing by a Vodaphone store to play with one.
Spent about [...]

It’s freaking official, after the first announcement was made that the BlackBerry ‘Thunder’ was the new BlackBerry to compete with the iPhone, then months of waiting, then rumors that it was now called the ‘Storm’, it’s finally here, and every carrier everywhere seems to be getting them.
The shot you see above is from Canada’s Telus [...]

My apologies, this is actually older news back from May, but we hadn’t run across it until now. It seems that the media semi-blitz required to reset people’s perspectives of Microsoft (and erase the bad name they got for Vista) are starting early… way early.
Microsoft isn’t slated to release Windows 7 (Vienna?) until January 2010, [...]

Update #1: The BlackBerry ‘Thunder’ is now called the ‘Storm’ and is slowly being released on networks all around the world, with Verizon having first-rights here in the US. Check out the story.

Well it looks like BlackBerry was working on a touch-screen smart phone after all! Pictured above is the new BlackBerry Thunder (9500-series); details [...]

Rumors of a giant touch-screen Blackberry for the 9k series have been floating around for a while now, but always shot down. Jens Eckels sent in a link over to ZD Net where Russell Shaw takes a look at a LCD-based touch screen patent filed by RIM that suggests such a device is already through [...]