Asus Makes Good On Open-Sourcing Eee’s Code

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Nov,29

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The other day I posted about how Asus had apparently not released all of the source code for its Linux-based Eee PC, and I branded it a goof that would be rectified soon. Looks like that was indeed the case: Asus has fixed its mistake. For the best possible confirmation of this, I turned [...]


ASUS Wins Prestigious 2007 China IF Design Awards

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Nov,26

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Marek Sokor

Industrie Forum, globally renowned as one of the world’s leading design institutions, gives out the iF Award; which is also sometimes known as the ‘њDesign Oscar’ќ, annually to top designs for a variety of product categories. These IF awards recognize outstanding design and only the best of which were selected for an award and [...]


Did Asus Drop The Ball With The Eee PC’s Open Source?

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Nov,26

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Marek Sokor

One of the provisions of using open-source code is that you have to honor the license the code was provided under, which usually means supplying the source on demand. From what other people have observed, Asus may not have properly fulfilled its obligations under the GPL to release all the source code used to [...]


Amazon and CNET Place the ASUS Eee PC Top on Most Wanted Christmas Gift List

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Nov,22

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Asus Technology Pvt. Ltd. is a leading provider of 3C total solutions. With a global staff of more than 100 thousand and a world-class R D design team, the turnover for 2006 was 17.4 billion U.S. Dollars. ASUS has been ranked in Business Week InfoTech 100 for 10 straight years, and was ranked No.1 by [...]


Asus Rolls Out Smallest PC In Philippines

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Nov,14

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Windsor Genova - AHN News Writer Manila, Philippines (AHN) - A unit of Taiwanese computer maker Asus has started selling the smallest PC in the Philippines this month. Asus Philippines is offering the four-gigabyte hard drive model of the Eee PC for $463, lower than the price of notebooks. The two gigabyte and eight [...]


Hands-on with the Asus EEE PC By Philip Berne, 13 November 2007

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Nov,13

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We pick up (literally) Asus tiny new ultraportable laptop, available now for less than $400. Will bargain hunters buy these in bulk? Check out our hands-on impressions. We’d been hearing about Asus spanking new EEE PC for some time, and were happy to finally see one up close at the Digital Focus event in [...]


Asus Eee PC planned with HDD?

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Nov,13

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Somebody actually read a manual! The Register uncovered an interesting mistake in the Asus Eee PC that could be intepreted that Asus originally planned to have a hard-drive instead of solid-state discs planned for the Asus Eee PC.


Qimonda supports first EN8800GT graphics card model from ASUS with 1Gb Graphics memory

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Nov,08

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Marek Sokor

Munich, December 7, 2007 – Qimonda AG, a leading supplier of memory products, today announced the first shipments of 1Gb GDDR3 Graphics memory for the new Asustek EN8800GT / 1GB Graphics cards. “Qimonda is proud to offer ASUS this ultimate memory solution. The 1Gb GDDR3 is a key product for the Graphics market in [...]