The $99.99 net book, which weighs under two pounds, has a seven-inch screen and comes loaded with Windows CE, will allow users to access e-mail, surf the Internet and visit social networking and video streaming sites (although one wonders how successful streaming will be on such a basic unit). CVS will be selling the netbook for about $5 less than Amazon. a
Saturday, August 21, 2010
Get Your Netbook at the Drugstore
CVS will be offering a Sylvania netbook for $99.99 as well as Sylvania’s new LookBook e-reader for $179.
Gary Kim has been a digital infra analyst and journalist for more than 30 years, covering the business impact of technology, pre- and post-internet. He sees a similar evolution coming with AI. General-purpose technologies do not come along very often, but when they do, they change life, economies and industries.
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