Manufacturers will soon start selling notebooks that feature integrated Voice over Internet Protocol; built-in cell phone capabilities are expected to follow. Michael Kanellos is editor at large at ...

Intel's Centrino notebooks deliver quite a punch for those who spend a lot of time on notebooks: faster processing speed, longer battery life, and improved connectivity to networks and the Internet.

Notebooks will go on a diet in 2005. After several years of bulking up to meet consumer demand for high-performance models with large screens, many notebooks will shed weight to dip below 7.5 pounds.