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India's "$10 Laptop" To Cost $100 After All
narramissic writes "In case you missed it, India's Minister of State for Higher Education yesterday announced the development of a $10 laptop that will target higher education applications. There were no specifications given for the laptop and the rock-bottom price raised questions about government subsidies. Today, the figure was corrected: It's not a $10 laptop; it's a $100 laptop. Still no ...
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"Free software is great, and corporate America loves it. It's often high-quality stuff that can be downloaded free off the Internet and then copied at will. It's versatile - it can be customized to perform almost any large-scale computing task - and it's blessedly crash-resistant.
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Microsoft takes mouse maker to court
The software maker files patent infringement actions after it says that Taiwan's Primax Electronics refused to license its technology.
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Linked by Ioan-Alexandru Lazar on Mon 23rd Oct 2006 14:58 UTC
Among the few things I'm proud of in my life, not having had contact with Windows when I first "met" a computer is somewhere around the top. Indeed, the first computer I used ran Unix, and I have been using Unices myself for some time.
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Government must challenge Games web censorship
Green Party MP Keith Locke is asking the Government and New Zealand Olympic officials to challenge Beijing's censorship of websites available to those visiting the Games.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 20th Jun 2006 09:59 UTC, submitted by anonymous
According to a Novell confidential memo dated June 14, Novell is delaying its next release of both the server and desktop versions of SUSE Linux Enterprise 10 "to address final issues with our new package management, registration, and update system and also fix the remaining blocker defects."
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Diversity works for Renaissance
New Zealand computer distributor Renaissance has reported its June year net profit rose 20 per cent to $1.46 million despite losing a good chunk of its business when Apple decided to sell direct to major customers.
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UFO-chaser extradited for mother of all military hacks
LONDON - Some call it the biggest hack of military computers; perhaps it was just a big embarrassment.
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I have written about if before : updating programs on your computer - if you're not using a Linux distribution, that is - is a total and utter mess. On Windows and Mac OS X, there are roughly four ways of updating applications.
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Microsoft sells discounted Office Suite
DAVAO CITY, Philippines - Microsoft Philippines is selling its Office Suite of applications to students and noncommercial users at nearly half the price.
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China plunges into controversy with Internet backflip
BEIJING -- The Beijing Olympics were plunged into another controversy on Wednesday as China announced a backflip on Internet freedoms for the thousands of foreign reporters covering the Games.
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The 2,000-year-old Greek 'super computer' used to predict eclipses decades in advance
The world's oldest calculator - a box of dials, gears and cogs created by the Ancient Greeks more than 2,000 years ago - could predict eclipses decades in advance, say researchers.
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NZ children 'complicit sex victims' on net
New Zealand children as young as 12 are willingly sending inappropriate images of themselves to adults contacted on the internet, a conference has been told.
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TV's loss is Web's gain as Roger Ebert blogs
Roger Ebert is gone from "At the Movies," but he's an increasingly influential figure in the new dominant realm of film criticism: the Web.
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JapanToday: Japan News and Discussion ジャパントゥデイ:日本のニュースを英語で読む
The Beijing Olympics were plunged into another controversy on Wednesday as China announced a backflip on Internet freedoms for the thousands of foreign reporters covering the Games.
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Dell Says Entertainment Will Be Key to Its Products
Dell said it wanted to expand entertainment options for users across all computing platforms, though it declined to confirm...
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Former Canyon County employee pleads guilty to child porn charges
Former Canyon County computer manager Marc Young pleaded guilty Wednesday to possessing sexually exploitive photos of young girls and destroying evidence.
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Intel rev's multicore C++ libraries
— Jul. 22, 2008 — Intel released a new version of its programming tool designed to help adapt existing applications to multi-core processors.
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Microsoft takes mouse maker to court
The software maker files patent infringement actions after it says that Taiwan's Primax Electronics refused to license its technology.
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EarthLink is interested in AOL's dial-up biz
A Wall Street Journal report suggests EarthLink wants to buy AOL's dial-up Internet business.
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CMU prof whose `last lecture’ moved millions dies
PITTSBURGH (AP) — Randy Pausch said obstacles serve a purpose: They “give us a chance to show how badly we want something.” Confronted with incurable cancer, he devised a last lecture that became an Internet sensation, a best-selling book and a celebration of a life spent achieving his dreams.
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Epilepsy Association aims to reach more than 9,000 they estimate suffer from seizures in Midland
By Kathleen Thurber Staff Writer Despite 20 years of experience in the computer industry Trevor Money has been unable to find employment.
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E-mails containing the phrase "F.B.I. vs. facebook" contain links leading to malware.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sun 18th Jun 2006 14:26 UTC
This is the 3rd installment in my series on deficiencies in common desktop environments. After GNOME and the Mac/MacOS , it is now KDE's turn. As with the other installments, this is a rant. Beware.
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