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• VIA to take aim at UMPC market
  Wednesday 20 December 2006 – 05:13
  VIA Technologies is restructuring its business and taking aim at the Ultra-Mobile PCs (UMPCs) market, with the company expecting solid growth in the segment in 2007, according to VIA Technologies president and CEO, Wen-chi Chen.
• HTC To Revamp UMPC Strategy Amid Rise Of The Eee PC
  Monday 16 June 2008 – 05:20 in Business
  The increasing popularity of Asustek Computer's Eee PC has resulted in a significant impact on the development of UMPCs (ultra mobile PCs), which may force High Tech Computer (HTC) to adjust its deployment of UMPC products, according to Peter Chou.
• FIC introduces 2.2 lbs UMPC with detachable calculator
  Thursday 7 June 2007 – 11:47
  Taipei TAIWAN - By now you are probably sick of all the UMPC news, but FIC has put a spin on things by announcing a UMPC with detachable modules
• Samsung's Q1 UMPC to start selling at Best Buy
  Tuesday 2 May 2006 – 02:14
  Samsung has announced that it will start selling the Q1 ultra mobile PC (UMPC) at Best Buy. The Q1 is a small keyboard-less computer that will play back music and videos, but will also have some horsepower to do work. To kick off the US launch, Samsung, along with executives from Intel and Microsoft demoed the product to the gawking press in San Francisco.
• Second generation UMPC to debut in H1 2007
  Thursday 28 September 2006 – 05:10
  Forget about the first, relatively bulky UMPCs - which have sparked quite some controversy at their launch back in march of this year. The second generation is being prepped - with case designs and the functionality that was expected to be available for the initial wave of devices. Extra: Image Gallery
• Is Intel's UMPC really Origami incognito at IDF?
  Wednesday 8 March 2006 – 03:47
  No, Origami has not been announced. At least not officially. But several sources hinted that a UMPC shown at IDF would be "very similar" to the mysterious Origami device Microsoft will be unveiling on 9 March at the CeBIT tradeshow in Hanover, Germany.
• Intel executive shuffle will enable 'adjustment' to UMPC, says Manetta
  Friday 21 July 2006 – 12:32
  In an interview this afternoon with TG Daily , Intel spokesperson Robert I. Manetta said one of the objectives of today's senior executive and general managerial shuffle, announced this morning, was to enable a seasoned, experience executive the chance to take the helm of the company's ultra-mobile PC (UMPC) project. Are congratulations in order?
• Fujitsu introduces LifeBook U1010 UMPC
  Thursday 19 July 2007 – 10:20 in Consumer Electronics
  Fujitsu on July 17 unveiled its first UMPC (ultra mobile PC), the LifeBook U1010, in Taiwan, with the company aiming to sell 600 units a month when the device becomes available at the end of this month, according to sources at Fujitsu Taiwan. The U1010 U
• Samsung's UMPC runs Windows Vista
  Tuesday 6 March 2007 – 05:26
  Samsung announced today that its Q1P ultra mobile PC (UMPC) is its first UMPC to get Windows Vista certification.
• AgoPC lowers price of UMPC by $200
  Thursday 21 September 2006 – 11:08
  AgoPC has reduced the price of its Ultra Mobile PC (UMPC) "Ago7" from $1000 to $800.
• Intel to unveil UMPC this week
  Monday 27 February 2006 – 04:20
  Microsoft's so-called Origami Project, due to be launched on Thursday, appears to be its early version of the ultra-mobile PC (UMPC) concept Intel has been touting of late.
• UMPC prototypes at CeBIT running 15 minutes on full battery charge :BBC
  Thursday 9 March 2006 – 09:53
  A report from the BBC this afternoon from the show floor of CeBIT 2006 states consumers are meeting these new devices with a great deal of skepticism...especially once they watch their batteries drain.
• Will the price of UMPC ascend well into the four-digit range?
  Friday 14 April 2006 – 05:32
  Yesterday, news of the first available UMPC devices emerged from South Korea, where Samsung is premiering its "Sens Q1" early next month. Its suggested sale price puts it well above the four-digit price range, when converted to dollars, which is leading many to wonder whether UMPCs in North America will actually sell for the $750 target that many anticipated.
• Intel preferred over VIA for UMPCs
  Wednesday 19 April 2006 – 03:02
  Market sources indicated that Microsoft originally planned to partner with VIA Technologies to promote its Origami Ultra-Mobile PC (UMPC), as VIA's C7-M embedded processor is priced at $700-800, compared to the Intel Celeron M and Pentium M series at $1200-1400.
• [IDF] The future of Notebooks and UMPCs
  Thursday 20 September 2007 – 01:43 in Business
  Mobile PCs, which can be subdivided into notebooks, UMPCs and smartphones, will be of prime importance for Intel over the next years. As the division between UMPCs and smartphones is a flowing one, it is difficult to judge today which of the platforms wi ...