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 ...

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, ...

It's not every day that a technology company creates a new gadget category. So when Qualcomm announced a thin, light computing device it calls a smartbook, people paid attention. Now, after a nearly ...

So we’ve heard that the smartbook, a kind of smartphone-netbook hybrid, is on its way, and with such a promising feature set that they’ll sell well. And now there’s evidence showing that China Mobile ...

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 ...

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 ...

Could netbooks be replaced by smartbooks? Yes. But will they? Maybe. The smartbook name has been adopted by companies working with ARM (Advanced Risc Machines), which developed the core processor used ...

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 ...

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 ...