 According to an article on Digitimes, the rumour in Taiwan is that the touchscreen notebook market is getting ready to take off big time. If the article is indeed correct, then we can expect to see two to three touchscreen notebooks from the various major Taiwanese vendors come October.
 Dell has launched a teaser site for its upcoming Adamo XPS and there's no coincident that Dell decided to reveal it today, as it measures a mere 9.99mm thin and as it's 09/09/09 today, well, you get the idea.
 Microsoft has launched a new keyboard that should appeal to mobile computing users, namely the Bluetooth Mobile Keyboard 6000. It uses Microsoft’s Comfort Curve layout and comes with a separate Bluetooth number pad that can be used independently from the main keyboard.
 Palm has finally gotten around to announce its second webOS device, although we can't say that we're sold on the name, as Pixi sounds a little bit too girlish to be taken seriously when it comes to a Smartphone. The Pixi is going to be the Pre's more affordable sibling, which puts it in a very competitive market space.
 HTC has just announced a new product in it's Android powered line-up which seems to be growing on a regular basis and the latest addition goes under the name of Tattoo. The HTC Tattoo is a budget devices compared to the previous Android handsets from HTC, but it still offers enough features to be an interesting device if the price proves to be right.
 HP is readying as many as six new notebooks, although only three of them really are new and of those, one is a netbook. The new models are the dm1, dm3 and Mini 311, with the first two being based on the Intel CULV platform and the latter featuring the Nvidia ION chipset.
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 If you've found your standard notebook or netbook hard drive to be on the small side, then maybe the new 640GB Scorpio Blue from Western Digital is what you've been waiting for. This 2.5-inch hard drive will fit in just about any notebook or netbook, as it's only 9.5mm thick.
 Apple has launched a range of "new" iPods as expected, however, it seems like all the rumours didn't come true, despite what various iPod accessory manufacturers managed to leak ahead of today's launch event.
 ViewSonic's VNB100 and VNB101 netbooks have finally gone on sale, well, at least in Taiwan and the good news is that both models are on sale for far less than the MSRP and many local computer shops are discounting both models heavily.
 It seems like Intel has finally decided that it's time for a faster consumer mobile Atom processor, as the N-series of Atom processors is going to get a speed bump to 1.83GHz come the first quarter of 2010.
 A new Android handset from LG which is currently going under the name of Etna was spotted during IFA and it looks like one of the most interesting Android devices to date. It has a full QWERTY keyboard that is no less than five columns high with a dedicated number row.
 Although the EC1400-31K as this CULV notebook is called is nothing new in itself, it's the first CULV notebook to launch with the new Intel dual core Celeron SU2300 processor. This is the first dual core CULV Celeron processor to date and quite an important step forward for Intel in gaining consumer interest in the CULV platform.
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