Here is a short demo of chromeTouch, a Google Chrome extension which enables touchscreen and inertia scrolling within Google Chrome. Works great if you’ve been waiting to find an alternative to Firefox and the Grab and Drag addon!

Find…

Memory, screen and CPU utilization are serious considerations for the UMPC and Netbook user. I’ve been looking at Twitter clients to try and work out what the best solutions are. I’ve found a few that you need to avoid too!

Opera 10.5 has been knocking around in Beta for a while but from today it’s available as a fully released product and ‘The fastest browser on Earth.’

“Opera 10.50 is the fastest browser we have ever produced. Under the hood,…

Amy Barton from Intel explains the Million Dollar Fund intended to kick-start developers and get applications into the Intel Atom Developer Program

In a call with Intel last Friday we heard about a ‘Million Dollar Development Fund’ which should be officially  launching right about now. (Should appear here.)

The fund is aimed at reducing the challenges that developers might have…

I sat down with Pankaj Kedia today. Pankaj is responsible for ecosystem development for the ultra mobility group at Intel and plays an important role in interfacing with software developers and bringing their products into ultra mobile devices. I…

We’re still trying to digest and analyse the Maemo, Moblin, Nokia, Intel, MeeGo news but it’s clear that this is a serious marketing effort. It also raises a lot of questions.

It happened. Maemo and Meego launched. Im standing in the press conference now and will report later but expect Meego to be available in Q2.

More info at Meego.com

The Big Merge: A Message from Intel and Nokia…

I’ve already seen a Dalvic runtime component on a Moblin build running on a netbook (Canonical were working on it and gave a quick glance at Computex last year) but here’s another clear indicator that there’s interest for running Android…

While I was at DevMob2010 last week the organisers interviewed me for a video. We talked about some of the sessions at DevMob and the opportunities for developers in the 4-10” screen size range.

I’ll be talking…

We were expecting (a beta release of) Moblin 2.1 for handhelds before end of 2009 but it didn’t turn up. In a search this morning, however, found this. It’s a month old but it’s a build of Moblin for…

I’ll be talking about the 4″ to 10″ space, along with my beloved ‘Mobile Computing Segments’ diagram at DevMob 2010 in London next week so if you’re in the area, please drop in and say hello. I’ll have a bunch of devices with me too so if you want hands on with the new UMID BZ, Viliv X70, S5, Android Tablet and other MID-space devices, it’s the place to be!

For those of you with netbooks running Windows in the U.S. or Canada, you might be interested in testing out the Intel AppUp applications store. If you haven’t heard the news, it’s a full app store with a purchase system…

AllMyApps, with the support of Intel, have launched a helpful one-click online app installer for small-screen windows devices which looks like it might make a nice stop gap during the wait for the real applications store.

Intel have just announced that the SDK for the Intel Atom Developer Program has reached Beta stage and along with the announcement comes information about how you can now start testing and submitting applications to their program. In order to get things moving, Intel are offering some big big prizes. How about a Smart Car or a $20K vacation? There are 100 netbooks on offer too!

Two items of news related to Linux support on the Menlow platorm have caught my attention in the last 24 hours. Both news items are related to the Ubuntu Linux distribution.

I doubt many of you will be spending $599 on a UMPC just for the Kindle PC application but if you’re thinking of a mobile tablet PC anyway, here’s my tip for a good PC-based Amazon Kindle reading experience. The Viliv X70 UMPC. (Video after the jump.)