Acer Set To Sell Android Netbooks Or Smartbooks By Q3 2009

Acer, the third biggest PC manufacturer, will be launching Android based netbooks by the end of the year as competition flares towards Christmas. The announcement comes a few hours after pictures of Asus, Acer's fiercest rival, demoed an Asus EEE PC Netbook running Google's Android operating system on a Qualcomm-based hardware platform instead of Intel. The company said in a statement that "it believes the Android operating system will contribute significantly to...