Investors.com - Acer To Offer First Netbook Computers With ... by With android software

Because Android, originally designed for mobile phones, is freely distributed by Google, netbooks running the software would cost less, Acer executive Jim Wong said Tuesday at Computex, a huge computer show in Taiwan. ... (NWS) hopes to sell Google (GOOG) access to more of its media properties as an ad deal between the firms comes up for renewal, executives said. Google currently runs ads on News Corp.'s My-Space. It reportedly wants to renegotiate that pact at a discount ...