"Acer strives to continually improve on our customers’ total mobile experience, whether it is increased responsiveness or extended Internet interactivity through longer battery life," said David Lee, associate vice president of Acer’s Mobile Computing Business Unit. "We are pleased to select dual-core Intel Atom processors for Acer netbooks, helping to empower netbook users achieve even more – both at work and at leisure."

"In their short history, the netbook category has experienced impressive growth," said Erik Reid, director of marketing for mobile platforms at Intel. "Having shipped about 70 million Intel Atom chips for netbooks since our launch of the category in 2008, there is obviously a great market for these devices around the world."

Intel says the netbooks enable new levels of support for applications like games, as well as Adobe Flash technology for access to a number of Web pages including online hotel booking systems and multimedia sites such as YouTube and Hulu.

The devices will be in stores from today until the end of the year, according to the announcement.

On a related note, Intel has shipped over 70 million Atom netbook chips since its the launch in 2008.

The mobile blogging functions are designed to incorporate the handsets’ mobile camera and also provide an “intuitive” automatic setup for consumers who do not already have a personal blog.

Blogger will be pre-loaded on Sony Ericsson models K610 UMTS, the K800 and K790, and made available in the second quarter of 2006.

“We are seeing exponential growth in blogging and consumers are turning more and more often to the Internet as a means of sharing information or images in personal blogs,” said Jan Wreby, Corporate Executive Vice President, Head of Sales and Marketing, Sony Ericsson.

Along with Sony Ericsson, Google has also struck a deal with BenQ Mobile to provide pre-loaded Web Search functions, including Google News. A special Google Web Search option can be activated from any page without launching a new web page.

“Today’s tech-savvy consumers are becoming increasingly more mobile and demand access to information on-the-go, whether it’s the latest news headlines or directions to a favorite restaurant,” said Nikesh Arora, vice president, European Operations, Google Inc.

In related news, Toshiba last month developed a mobile phone technology that scans product bar codes using a camera phone function and then collects information from the blogosphere to return a near-instantaneous positive or negative product rating. Toshiba will be testing the product in Japanese stores in March.

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