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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 31st May 2007 21:08 UTC
"If you use a traditional desktop like GNOME or KDE, a keyboard-controlled desktop with a minimum of utilities may seem like stepping back 10 or 15 years in the history of interface design. Why bother, when traditional desktops are easy to use and RAM and disk space are so cheap nowadays?"
OS News |
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as of yesterday, they are taking orders
When Dell put up its IdeaStorm community-feedback site, the company was surprised by the strong response in favor of shipping personal computers with Linux.
OS News |
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Washington DC
SAN ANTONIO , May 20 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- In recognition of Older Americans Month, AT&T Inc. (NYSE: T ) announced today that the company is launching free briefings to seniors on how to operate their mobile phones and on Internet cybersafety in various cities throughout the country.
The San Francisco Examiner |
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Laptop-for-kids project resumes donation program
Tue, May 20, 2008 (1:32 p.m.) The One Laptop Per Child project plans to resume its Give One Get One program, in which people spend $400 to buy one of the nonprofit's rugged computers and donate a second one to a child in a developing country.
Las Vegas Sun |
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TAGNOS(TM) Selected as U.S. Finalist in Global Business Planning Competition
LADERA RANCH, Calif.----TAGNOS™, a healthcare software company whose innovative technology tracks patients and equipment in hospitals, has been selected as the U.S. finalist for the Wales International Technium Challenge, a global business planning competition.
Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance |
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Hewlett-Packard’s Operating Margin Rises to 10%
The world’s biggest computer maker posted a rise in its quarterly operating margin, and pointed to strength in its international business.
NYTimes.com via Yahoo! Finance |
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Nashville drivers can now renew tags online
Davidson County residents now have the option of renewing their vehicle tags online.
WKRN Nashville |
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Netflix unveils $100 set-top box for digital movies
The breakthrough comes in the form of 5-inch-by-5-inch device tailored for a year-old service that uses high-speed Internet connections to stream more than 10,000 movies and TV shows from Netflix's library.
Houston Chronicle |
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Redwood Acres Fairgrounds goes wireless
Category: Local News Topics: Business Carlson Wireless, an Arcata-based wireless communications equipment manufacturer, has recently completed the installation of a wireless network at Redwood Acres Fairgrounds.
The Eureka Reporter |
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HP second-quarter operating margin rises to 10 pct
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Hewlett-Packard Co , the world's biggest computer maker, posted a rise in its quarterly operating margin on Tuesday, and pointed to strength in its international business.
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Laptop-for-kids project resumes donation program
The One Laptop Per Child project plans to resume its Give One Get One program, in which people spend $400 to buy one of the nonprofit's rugged computers and donate a second one to a child in a developing country. Nicholas Negroponte, the founder of the laptop group, announced the return of the donor program Tuesday as he disclosed plans for a second generation of the "XO" computers. By 2010 ...
The State |
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HP: All eyes on EDS as profits rise
Hewlett-Packard Co. reported a 16% increase in its fiscal second-quarter earnings Tuesday, results that matched preliminary figures it reported a week ago.
CNN Money |
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Notebook step aside, here comes Netbook
The IT world is waiting eagerly for the Netbook, a term introduced by Intel to describe a new category of scaled-down subnotebooks used primarily to surf the Internet and perform basic functions such as word processing.
Bangkok Post - Thailand's English news |
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UF Doctor Fired for Putting Medical Records at Risk
JACKSONVILLE, FL -- The private health information of 1900 local patients may have been compromised when a Jacksonville doctor gave his computer away.
First Coast News |
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Apple Launches Corporate Gifting and Rewards Program
Apple has launched the Corporate Gifting and Rewards Program. The special program allows corporations to create quantity purchase promotion and awards packages consisting of iPods, iPod accessories, and iTunes gift certificates. Specialized corporate content can also be pre-loaded onto the iPods
The Mac Observer |
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Greenpeace confirms hazardous materials in game consoles
Greenpeace today released detailed numbers on the concentration of hazardous materials used to manufacture the PS3, Xbox 360 and Wii game consoles. The good news is that the findings reflect previous hazmat results from notebook tests, but the report indicates that each manufacturer has a lot of room to reduce the concentration of materials such as lead, chromium, bromine or cadmium in its ...
TG Daily |
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Startup aims to make remote PC repair mainstream
SANTA ROSA - A team of Internet and computer entrepreneurs has formed a fast-track company to offer a low-cost, always-available remote computer-repair system to brick-and-mortar computer resellers and service providers.Jib Enterprises sees a huge and growing market for the service.
The Santa Rosa Press Democrat |
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Startup Aster Offers Software For Clustering Commodity Servers
Aster says its technology can turn commodity servers into a massively parallel processing relational database for analytics.
InformationWeek |
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OLPC 2.0 coming; will project survive to see its launch?
The One Laptop Per Child project has revealed its new model, a dual-touchscreen hardware device that will be available in 2010 for $75 per unit. The timetable and price are optimistic, especially given OLPC's recent troubles. Read More...
Ars Technica |
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World's cheapest Linux-based laptop?
A Hong Kong-based manufacturer is shipping a Linux-based ultra-mini PC (UMPC) laptop for only $250 ($180 in volume), which appears to give it the lowest price yet for a Linux laptop. Bestlink's Alpha 400 offers a 400MHz CPU and a 7-inch, truecolor display.
Desktop Linux |
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Wikimedia Foundation muzzles Wikinews
Speech is free if you pretend it's free Wikinews - like its sister site, Wikipedia - bills itself as a place without bias. Ostensibly, it's a democratic news source that never answers to a higher power. But that's just a setup for the latest act in the world's greatest online farce.…
The Register |
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Glens Falls man arrested on child pornography charge
QUEENSBURY — A 21-year-old Glens Falls man was arrested on a felony child pornography charge in connection with a computer that was left at a police station with a note indicating it contained illicit pornography, State Police said.
The Post-Star |
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ISP problem causes Internet troubles in state
Problems with a major computer data network caused widespread Internet problems in Vermont on Tuesday, apparently caused by a break in a fiber optic line and other technical problems, officials said.
Boston Globe |
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Recent Articles
On Monday, VMware made a number of announcements centered around thin-client developments and professional services. Among the news to come out of Palo Alto was a glimpse of an integrated desktop solution designed to leverage its VDI platform with Sun Ray Software and virtual display clients.
Server Watch |
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OLPC unveils plans for XO laptop 2.0
One Laptop per Child reports it is working on the next generation of its XO laptop, a smaller model with touchscreen controls.
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