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Microsoft's agreement to offer Windows XP on OLPC's XO laptop is appropriate and long overdue. It was pure hypocrisy for Microsoft billionaire Bill Gates to publicly decry the so-called "Digital Divide" while privately refusing to support the XO simply because Linux was a supported operating...
Published: Friday, May 16, 2008 12:04 a.m. MDT South Jordan-based PC Laptops said this week that it will offer free lifetime labor and service support to owners of PC Club brand computers in Utah and Nevada, after PC Club announced it has gone out of business. The hardware components in personal...
Despite the tightening purse strings of the new Credit Crunch Austerity Britain, the Ferry family coffers were recently opened to purchase a new PC. Despite regular complaints from cost centre no.1, investment in mobile phones, MP3 players and other such essential paraphernalia of modern life is...
LONDON, May 16 (UPI) -- Microsoft Corp. has teamed with a nonprofit organization in Britain that builds low-cost laptops meant for developing countries, organizers said. By teaming with Microsoft, One Laptop Per Child will be offering Windows XP as a dual operating system for its computers, which...
XtremeNotebooks announced the launch on the United States market of the first professional grade laptop available with the Intel X3360 Xeon Quad Core processor. The company already holds the title for the first vendor to introduce Quad Core laptops in US and now it secures its position by...
Friday May 16, 1:00 pm ET Colleges and Universities Choose Dell to Simplify Mobile Technology ROUND ROCK, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Colleges and universities that want to make mobile technology more accessible and affordable for their students are increasingly turning to Dell, the leading supplier...
LEMONADE and computer keyboards do not mix. I learned that the hard way a few weeks ago, when my stepdaughter accidentally spilled some onto her iBook laptop. -- New York Times. Apple Executives to Showcase Mac OS X Leopard and OS X iPhone Development Platforms at WWDC 2008 Keynote Apple Tuesday...
Ed Sutherland - AHN Editor Cambridge, MA (AHN) - Microsoft Windows is now an option for inexpensive computers sold by the 'One Laptop Per Child' organization. Students using the laptop will be able to choose running Windows or the group's own Linux-based operating system. Offering Windows will...
Eee PC enthusiasts, rejoice, as more new photos of the upcoming Eee PC with Intel Atom heart have made their way on the web. While early adopters rushed to snatch an Intel Celeron model, the upcoming Eee PC will not only bless late customers with a brand-new breed of chips, but it will also come...
The One Laptop Per Child program will put XP on its XO laptop and children in the developing world will have a choice between Windows and Linux. On the surface, a little choice isn't going to kill anybody. In fact, choice is good. And if some poor...
