As you may have heard, Psion allegedly holds a trademark on the Netbook term and is sending cease and desist letters to some IT companies. But here’s a new twist on the Netbook soap opera: Apparently, Intel owns and uses the Netbook URL (www.netbook.com), which redirects to Intel’s home page. Does a showdown loom between the two companies?

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6 Comments on “Netbooks: Psion vs. Intel, Round Two”

  1. Phillip L Says:
    December 31st, 2008 at 4:56 pm

    Psion was unsucessful with the netbook concept and format.
    They ran away from it and never took the time to understand this piece of the market.

    They should walk away from the fight as they have little to to gain at this point. Their core competence is in data collection. All of their efforts to date to move outside of space have met with little sucess. The Netpad and Badger are to prime examples.

  2. Roy Schestowitz Says:
    January 1st, 2009 at 3:19 pm

    I used to think Intel owned the trademark (someone warned me) so I’ve always said “sub-notebook”.

  3. aikiwolfie Says:
    January 2nd, 2009 at 4:52 am

    I call them “stupidly wee computers”. We should all adopt that term and pay me $100 every time :o D … the acronym SWCs can be used for free :o p

  4. matthorany Says:
    January 5th, 2009 at 8:16 am

    How about calling it a laptop? I don’t care how small it is, it’s still a laptop until it either fits in your pocket or on a belt clip. Besides… what is a netbook anyway? If the name suggests that it’s a notebook with net communications capabilities, then I’ve had plenty of netbooks over the years. I used to have a compaq netbook with 32mb of ram and a 1gig hard drive. It was a sweet netbook.

  5. The VAR Guy Says:
    January 5th, 2009 at 9:29 am

    Matthorany: Your idea is too logical for you to work in the IT channel.

  6. Save the Netbooks Says:
    February 17th, 2009 at 12:14 am

    It will become clearer over the course of this year what the netbook class is capable of in terms of reliability, battery life, etc.

    Netbook is a portmanteau of Internet + Notebook – it has nothing whatsoever to do with size and indeed internet devices should have as large a screen as practical. Small devices are “subnotebooks” or “ultraportables”.

    Anyway I encourage you to join our campaign, even if just by raising awareness of it:

    “Save the Netbooks” campaign launched to fight impending trademark threat

    The “Save the Netbooks” campaign is fighting the impending trademark threat from Psion Teklogix, who have given until the end of March 2009 to cease using the term citing trademarks relating to a line of products discontinued over 5 years ago.

    For more information visit http://www.savethenetbooks.com/.

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