PayPal Gives Developers Free Netbooks At Innovate09
PayPal and eBay execs gave out free netbooks today at the PayPal Innovate 2009 conference as a gesture of appreciation to all attendees.
The conference offered details about how application developers can integrate with a new PayPal platform, and emphasized that developers are PayPal’s next new set of customers (third to online merchants and cutomers).
The freebies are getting better, it seems. Steve Ballmer recently gave out copies of Windows 7 at the 7 release party. He’s notoriously anti-netbook, so it’s good to see PayPal is giving netbooks – and its customers – some attention.
Via VentureBeat.
Get a HP Mini 110 Netbook For Free
CNet is offering an HP Mini 110 netbook for free over at their site, and you could win it by Monday if you’re lucky.
All you need to do is register on CNet leave a comment on that post, and wait until Monday, August 10 at noon EDT to find out the winner.
The HP Mini 110 only costs about $300 anyway, but it’s certainly worth the time you put into writing a comment if you win. There were 880 comments on it already as of this post, but a gamble’s a gamble, right?
Linux Foundation Predicts All Netbooks Are Free By 2010
Jim Zemlin, Executive Director of the Linux Foundation, says some interesting things are in store for netbooks in the future if mobile internet providers follow his advice and give away netbooks for free.
Why? Providers can profit through multi-year subscriptions and application stores. By passing out netbooks like candy and depending on the fact that users will want to spice up their computing with applications and bonus features, the business plan could work.
Zemlin made a confident prediction that some vendors with stakes in Microsoft won’t be too happy about:
“In less than a year, I predict that the new cost of a netbook will be zero.”
Naturally, Linux fits into the formula by acting as a software cost cutter. Netbooks could be a whole new ball game if Zemlin has his way, but it depends on consumers dealing with monthly subscriptions. Will it be worth it in the long run?
Via TheInquirer.
