Qualcomm Smartbooks Could Outweight Intel's Netbooks

Semiconductors giant Qualcomm could well dislodge netbooks as the hottest consumer products on the market with a new device category called smartbooks. While smartbooks and netbooks may be sharing the same form factor, they differ significantly when it comes to the technology used. Smartbooks will only use ARM-based processors combined with a Linux-based  operating system and will integrate 3G. Netbooks in comparison use Windows XP OS and Intel-based platform. Both...