Asus is taking the Eee brand and pushing it into a whole series of products. We have seen the Mac Mini like $299 computer powered by Linux, but now the guys over at electronista have a nice first look write up on the Eee Monitor which is a Linux computer built into a 20″ Widescreen LCD monitor. Making it similar to the popular Apple iMac but at less than half the price.

Electronista | Eee Monitor shots reveal Linux’s iMac rival

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The price point is supposed to be $500 for this all in one gem, but remember the Eee PC netbook was also supposed to be $200 once upon a time. Now they are climbing past $700. I do hope Asus can stick to the sub $500 price point for this one. This would be an ideal second desktop for many homes. Ideal for in the Kitchen, or Family room. I can even see this flat screen wonder being converted to a fold down display for mounting under a cabinet. Put it behind some waterproof glass and it’d make for great surfing and IPTV watching by the hot tub.

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Adobe has finally released control of it’s popular PDF (portable document format) to ISO (International Organization for Standardization).

Appleinsider | Adobe’s PDF format now an ISO standard

This is great news. This should mean that PDF creation will now finally be a simple thing, incorporated into every piece of software or perhaps into every operating system. Oh sure if you are an Apple user you have had this built into your system for ever, but if you used Windows or Linux, you had to rely on kludgy third party applications to turn your printouts into PDF documents you could email or otherwise distribute electronically. Or pay a ridiculous fee to Adobe for a copy of Acrobat.

Good Job Adobe

Very very cool. The smart people over at Data Robotics have introduced a development kit that can be used to write software or server programs for use with it’s Award winning Drobo storage solution.

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In case you don’t know, Drobo is a very cool Data Storage Robot.

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Amazon.com is reporting that the much anticipated Asus Eee compitor the MSI Wind has been delayed three to five weeks. This is my current favorite in the Netbook market since Asus started pricing themselves as a premium line. If the device works as well as I hope it will, we may even roll them out in my real job as a road computer for the sales reps.

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I hope to be putting my hands on one fo these and putting it through it’s paces when it becomes available. Hopefully closer to the 3 week mark.

Rim has released it’s Unite software for Blackberry to the USA. Unite has been available on Bell Cananda for a while now, but clearly the impending threat of MobileMe from Apple being released in 10 days time has made the smartphone giant release it’s own version just ahead of Apple.

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Blackberry Unite software installs on a single PC (Windows Only) but allows exchange like access for a small office or family.

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