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The developing world needs well-developed ideas
Leader Bill Gates doesn't like the One Laptop Per Child project, which he says is too small, too fiddly, and missing the point. If Bill Gates and $100 laptop progenitor Nick Negroponte were to look at the places without light and listen to those without a...
[March 17, 2006, 14:15]
In pictures: One Laptop Per Child review
Reviews When Nicholas Negroponte (above, right) of the MIT Media Lab showed off a prototype OLPC (One Laptop Per Child) at NetEvents in Hong Kong, ZDNet UK's Rupert Goodwins was there with his camera. The laptop just visible in the bottom left-hand corner...
[December 6, 2006, 9:37]
Transmeta chips to cool off Intel
News IBM flirted with a Transmeta laptop but cancelled it, saying the chip didn't save enough power to make the effort worthwhile. One product that straddles the fence is the new Casio Fiva, a $1,500, 35-ounce laptop that boots up either Linux or...
[March 23, 2001, 9:38]
Companion Device
Talkback I would agree that this would not make the best device for someone without a desktop or laptop.Let me clarify companion device.At my office I have a $3,000 Toshiba laptop with a dedicated 128 MB graphics card and gigs of ram.
[July 25, 2007, 1:12]
802.11-ngratitude
Blog Comment As I mentioned in my blog, my new Lifebook laptop came with a built-in Intel 4965AGN wireless adapter, so I decided to get a new router to try it out. In my case, it is primarily related to the fact that Swiss houses are built to withstand nuclear...
[February 27, 2008, 14:13]
HP unveils aluminium-clad Eee rival
News Also featured is HP's 3D DriveGuard technology, which uses a signal from a three-axis digital accelerometer chip to turn off the hard drive if the laptop is dropped suddenly. The laptop uses Via's C7-M ULV processor, which comes in speeds ranging...
[April 8, 2008, 17:15]
A good PDA and a decent phone but...
Member Review I recently bought this device to move my emailing and phoning (regular phone and Skype) from my laptop and mobile phone. This device looks like it's just a little bit short of a laptop really. The good thing is it can be charged from USB port, so...
[December 20, 2007, 10:44]
Vista may require "unproven" drive technology
News Details have emerged this week that Microsoft may be planning to make it mandatory for laptop manufacturers who want to support its operating system to install hybrid flash drives. However, website Tom's Hardware, recently reported a conversation...
[June 16, 2006, 13:30]
Panasonic Toughbook mini review
Blog My fave laptop was in dry dock, and the plane left at six. Otherwise, it's a consumer laptop made of plastic. A quick email to Panasonic to get an extension, a frantic hunt for the right power lead, a promise to Chaz that I'd write it up, and it...
[March 6, 2007, 7:49]
Intel aims to cut Linux power usage
News For instance, a current laptop running Red Hat's Fedora 7 uses about 21 watts. If you apply six little changes we propose, that same laptop takes 15.5 watts," Hohndel said. Intel has launched a green Linux project — "LessWatts.org" — designed to...
[September 24, 2007, 12:10]
Support grows for thin-client computing
News The more information that resides centrally and the less that resides on a laptop or desktop, the more secure that information is. Neoware, a partner of Citrix, is one company producing pretty smart devices that look like a laptop, sound like a...
[June 6, 2007, 16:38]
Mobile working is a myth
Blog Comment Usability / Ergonomics - extended working on planes, trains, in hotels etc.can truly reveal the usability of devices, e.g.why does my laptop touch panel below the keyboard pick up on movements of my hand whilst I am typing.
[June 13, 2007, 8:05]
Get Set... (Ubuntu Intrepid Ibex)
Blog But with my Lifebook S6510, which has an Intel Mobile 965GM display adapter, I am able to use an external display on the laptop port replicator, and I can choose whether I want the screens to be "mirrored", in which case I simply close the laptop...
[October 29, 2008, 10:08]
OLPC laptop drops AMD for Via
News The One Laptop per Child project's XO laptop will switch to a Via processor as part of a general hardware refresh. He said the shift to the Via chip came about because AMD had discontinued its low-power processor.
[April 20, 2009, 13:26]
Researchers demo keystroke-sniffing via laser
News Presenters at the CanSecWest security conference in Vancouver detailed on Thursday how they can sniff data by analysing keystroke vibrations using a laser trained on a shiny laptop or through electrical signals coming from a PC connected to a PS/2...
[March 20, 2009, 11:34]
Defra equips staff with 'green' laptops
News She said she has a fixed personal computer in her office, a laptop for home use and a BlackBerry for mobile use. In the new world, I will be able to have one item, which is a laptop which I shall carry to and from [work] on my bicycle and plug in...
[July 21, 2008, 9:23]
Laptops threatened with plane ban
News Concerns over the safety of Ultrawideband (UWB) could see aeroplane passengers banned from using laptop computers while onboard a flight. All laptop use might have to be stopped, because air crews could not be expected to tell which laptops might...
[September 2, 2002, 12:21]
Evolution of the Mac
News This colourful design, clearly inspired by the original iMac, was Apple's consumer laptop product for 1999: the iBook 3G. It resembles later student-laptop designs such as the XO laptop and Intel's Classmate PC and came with integrated wireless...
[January 23, 2009, 13:40]
Apple patches trio of Wi-Fi hijack flaws
News Apple's patches come a month after researchers at SecureWorks demonstrated at the Black Hat security confab how an attacker could gain complete control over a laptop by sending malformed network traffic to a vulnerable computer.
[September 22, 2006, 8:50]
Thursday: Technology failure day
Blog Hello.er, your laptop is making a strange ticking noise and there's a blue screen on it saying something about memory dumps. This time, I later discover, a miscreant pollen grain triggers a major neurological event while she's typing away on the...
[July 18, 2003, 16:28]
