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Archive for January 8, 2009
Asus and Symantec Team Up
Jan 8th
Asustek and Symantec Corp. has just reached a multi-year agreement that would bring the Norton Internet Security 2009 software to the Eee PC netbooks and nettops. And to kick off this agreement, Symantec announced that it will be giving a full-featured 60-day introductory subscription of the software.
In agreeing to the deal, Symantec’s vice president for consumer channels said that they believe that Asus is fully committed to their customers for bringing economical, environment-friendly and fashionable netbooks and nettops. Hence, it is but right that Asus should also think of their users’ welfare by offering the Security Software to protect users from adware, spyware, viruses, worms, spam and other malicious attacks while surfing the web.
Symantec believes that the Eee PC netbooks and nettops users are not mostly tech geeks but also consumers who are not aware of Internet attacks.
Hence, the more reason for Asus to ensure that their users are well protected. That is through Symantec’s easy-to-use and fast security solution.
via CNN Money
A post from the Asus Eee PC blog.
ViewSonic Intros its VieBook Netbook
Jan 8th
The netbook scene at the CES in Vegas was not dominated by just Asus, Sony, and MSI. A not so well publicized netbook was also launched at the event coming from ViewSonic, more popularly know for their LCDs and other display products.
ViewSonic’s netbook which is called the VieBook is your usual 10.2-inch netbook packed with the usual netbook specs and features. These include:
- 1.6 GHz Intel Atom processor
- 1GB memory
- 160GB HD
- Ethernet LAN connection
- Wi-Fi
- Bluetooth
- 1.3 megapixel webcam
- 4-in-1 card reader
- Microsoft Windows XP Home
- 3 hour battery life
The ViewSonic VieBook will be released sometime in February with an SRP of $429.
Now tell me, is there something to be excited about this netbook? Well, perhaps if you’re a ViewSonic fan, or you’re tired hearing about the netbooks of major brand players.
Via Netbooktech
A post from the Asus Eee PC blog.
ViewSonic Intros its VieBook Netbook
SanDisk Shows Off New pSSD Drives for Netbooks at CES
Jan 8th
SanDisk has announced a new flash memory-based SSDs at the CES in Las Vegas – the SanDisk pSSD which is aimed at meeting the demand of netbooks’ OS. This new generation flash memory SSDs was designed to replace HDDs and features a SATA interface which boosts the SSDs performance. With this new SSDs netbooks will boot and launch applications faster than when using the traditional SATA HDDs.
The SanDisk pSSDs will be available in 8-64 GB capacity and is slated to be released sometime in February. Price details are not yet available, although SanDisk promises to make this pSDDs as affordable as possible.
Via I4U News
A post from the Asus Eee PC blog.
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