update A German court on Thursday granted Smartbook AG a temporary restraining order against Lenovo that prohibits the Chinese PC maker from using the term "smartbook" in any commercial correspondence ...

This, ladies and gentlemen, is the future of mobile computing: The Smartbook. In the same way that a netbook filled a previously unknown need by being something between a laptop and a smartphone, a ...

At least two companies aim to make smartbooks different enough from laptops--and Netbooks--that consumers will take notice. Think of the device as a large smartphone. Brooke Crothers writes about ...

At MWC, Alcatel was kind enough to give us a preview of its working "smartbook" prototypes. The idea isn't too far off from Motorola's doomed Lapdock or the first-gen ASUS PadFone, where an Android ...

Qualcomm and a host of other technology companies have spent nearly six months orchestrating the global debut of a new kind of mobile computing device they call "smartbooks." Now, a trademark dispute ...

That's right, not only does Augen-- a company unbeknown to us before yesterday -- make an $150 Android 2.1 tablet, but the company is also stocking Kmart shelves with a $99 Android smartbook of sorts.

In a quest to promote a new type of mobile computing device called the smartbook, Qualcomm unveiled a new Lenovo gadget Thursday. The wireless technology company is betting that consumers will ...

Digital textbooks are available on a variety of platforms and from most of the major textbook publishers. The advantages are clear. They are cheaper, easier to carry around and can incorporate ...

A German court on Thursday issued a restraining order at the behest of Smartbook AG to stop Lenovo from using the “smartbook” trademark to describe low-cost laptops in Germany. Smartbooks are ...

For most of us, the term ‘smartbook’ (a device that’s somewhere in between a smartphone and a netbook) is nothing but the latest tech buzzword du jour. For German company Smartbook, however, it’s ...

Nothing like a new niche to get the concept artists salivating, but this time it's Freescale Semiconductor who are working on possible Smartbook designs. The company has commissioned six prototypes, ...

Remember our odd partial-fax from the legal beagles of Germany firm Smartbook AG earlier this month? The company had made a name for itself by attempting to dissuade bloggers and news sources – ...