Who Owns the Netbook Trademark?
Linux-based Netbooks — many of them with Ubuntu pre-installed — continue to sell fast. But could there be a potential legal snag with some of those Netbooks? Apparently, Psion claims to hold a trademark on the Netbook term. So what does that mean for Netbook-named products from Lenovo and others? Here’s some speculation from WorksWithU’s sister site, TheVARguy.com.
Ahhhhhh! The old Psion Netbook. What a lovely machine. It went everywhere with me, and I mean everywhere!!!
Time taken to load up the operating system with the same five applocations I had loaded with around 15 data files was… wait for it… 0.5 seconds. Virtually the time it took me to open the clam!
Decent 7″ screen, more than enough memory, Symbian opsys.
If they brought that out again, even with no updated changes at all, I would sell my mother-in-law and granny and buy one like a shot!
Ampers.
Ampers: I was a big fan of Psion nearly a decade ago. Too bad the company — like Palm — got too focused on the personal organizer component and arrived too late to the real communications revolution.