Google Voice is  one of my favorite new tools I’ve begun using this year.  Don’t confuse this with voice activated search on your phone, Google Voice is a new phone number assigned to you by Google.  A phone number that saves you and your friends and family time and frustration.  People don’t have to make a decision to call you at home, work, or on your  mobile… no, they call one number and you decide where that number rings.  The best part for you… no more listening to long voicemail!!!  Google

Circle October 20th on your calendars folks. Barnes & Noble sent out invitations to the media for a New York-based event on that day – a day most suspect will be the official unveiling of Barnes & Noble’s entry into the e-reader market. The media has been buzzing about this ever since the Wall Street Journal and Gizmodo reported last Thursday that B&N was planning to enter the market with their own 6 inch touch-screen device based around the Google Android OS to compete against Amazon and Sony.  While B&N entering the e-reader market isn’t necessarily a surprise, what is surprising is the rumor about the possible use of Android as the OS.

The long-expected Android Acer Aspire One has been making big strides in recent weeks, today finally going up for pre-order on Amazon . The netbook costs $349.99 and dual-boots both Google Android and Windows XP. The 10.1-inch netbook is the Acer AOD250-1613 model, and comes with a 1.66 GHz Intel N280 CPU, 1 GB of RAM, a 160 GB HDD, Intel GMA950 graphics and a 6-cell battery lasting, supposedly, up to 9 hours on one charge. If you buy one now, you don’t pay shipping when the netbook is released.

Just in. The 10.1” Acer Aspire D250 netbook dual booted with Windows XP and Google Android is up on amazon.com for pre-order starting at $350. Some of its specs include an Atom N280 processor, 10.1” 1024×600 Display, 802.11b/g Wi-Fi, GMA 950 graphics, 1GB RAM and the highest capacity 5800mAh 6-cell battery Acer offers on the Aspire [...] Related posts: Acer Aspire One AO751h 11.6-inch HD Netbook Acer announces Aspire AS5739G Notebook, Priced at $750 Acer will launch 3D Aspire laptop in

by Jacky Fuzz But how come this happened? Did Apple go as well as do something in specific — something they’re still we do — which keeps them so incredibly dominant? No a single has managed to strike a peculiarity carry out Apple has (but a Palm Pre has done a great effort). We’ve collected together a 5 most expected reasons why. #5: Planning forward regularly works There have been multiform phone manufacturers who unequivocally have no clarity of where their association is starting (think of Motorola), as well as they have been regularly stranded listening to a carriers, who expostulate a approach phones get made.

We recently reported that the dual booting netbook from Acer should be available to purchase from November . At the time we had no price for the netbook but, the machine is now up for pre-order on Amazon, with a retail price. The Acer Aspire One D250 is available to pre-order for a price of $349.99. No specific release date is listed. The netbook will dual boot Android and Windows XP. A Windows 7 model should also be available with the release of a Windows 7 model in Japan .

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Filed under: Analysis / Opinion , Apple Corporate , Odds and ends It’s the end of an era for the relationship between Google and Apple — Google has announced that Dr. Arthur Levinson has resigned from its board of directors, meaning that the last common member between the boards of the two companies has now “chosen a side,” so to speak. I doubt it was that serious, but you never know: the Department of Justice had announced that they were looking into the connections between the two boards, with both former Apple boardmember and Google CEO Eric Schimidt being one link, and Levinson being the other.

Acer is preparing to unleash its first netbook running the Google Android operating system on the world before the end of the year. The netbook will be an Acer Aspire D250 laptop which will actually dual boot Google Android and Windows XP. Honestly, I’m not entirely sure there’s a huge demand for netbooks with both operating systems, since you’ll end up paying for the Windows license anyway. An Android-only netbook would undoubtedly be cheaper.

The Android powered Acer Aspire One D250 netbook is now ready for pre-order on Amazon. If you are not certain if you want the D250 running on Android OS, then you also have the option for a Windows 7 version sometime next week. ( Hands-on review ) If you choose to go for the Android version, then you will have dual booting between Google Android and Microsoft’s Windows XP. The netbook is powered by an Atom N280 processor and has just 1GB of RAM. The 5800mAh 6-cell battery is the highest in its range, offering up to 9 hours of usage.