Cheap netbooks don’t just offer sales appeal. The low price-point is also giving rise to a hardware hacker movement that’s growing quickly. Let me put it another way: are average computer users more likely to hack and slash a $2,000 notebook or a $300 netbook? My money is on the netbook ...

We’ve talked time and again about how functional you can be with a smartphone or if it can be a computer replacement. And when you want a bigger screen, desktop software functionality or need to type more than ten words at at time, we often turn to netbooks.  In ways I hadn’t thought of...

* There were two shootings in St. Louis City on Friday night.  However, they took place where you might not expect, but if you keep up on the decline and fall of St. Louis, you won’t be surprised.  One was on Potomac and Michigan, and the other was on the 3700 block of Iowa. * It looks like ...

Intel is beginning their push into the smartphone market with a partner announcement out of Mobile World Congress today. LG Electronics plans have a MID with voice capability available in 2010; The device will run on Intel’s next Atom platform called Moorestown and offer 3G and other wireless ...

eReader will soon be on all of these It’s no secret what we think about eReader here on jkOnTheRun.  Kevin and I have both been using eReader and buying books for it for years.  One of the strengths of eReader has always been the multiple platform support, something that was last indicated w...

Earlier this week, Microsoft formally announced the various Windows 7 SKUs, or product editions, and a brouhaha quickly ensued. There were the inevitable comparisons against Mac OS X which essentially has one edition consumers can purchase. Questions arose around netbooks because they’re capab...

Computer data can be very important to us, especially those of us who make a living on the computer. Over the last several years, the computer has grown on all of us, making our lives so much easier. For that very reason, it’s easy to tell that if we lost our computer data, it would [...]...

MSI Wind U120 Yesterday, we caught word of the newest MSI Wind netbook for sale. It’s the U120, which doesn’t offer much more than the existing U100. The U120H does add integrated 3G and an option for an SSD drive, but the U120-series appears to offer less in the memory expansion departm...

Aside from the fact that Odoacer flubbed the oath, which wasn’t a big deal, and that his inauguration address sounded like some warmed over piecemealing of the words of John Kennedy, Ted Kennedy and (now) former President Romulus Augustus, here’s what jumped out at me, that hardly anyone...

TechCrunch has more information available about their web tablet prototype, which is now known as the CrunchPad. They’ve built a working prototype and offer up two videos that show what state the project is at. Built on a VIA Nano chipset, the slate currently uses a full build of Ubuntu Linux,...