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Syracuse University 1.1

...and staff, check the campus map and weather, find library resources and free computers in the public ITS computer labs, and more! Whatever your affiliation... Read more

22 October, 2011

Tiny free offer nosedives

Tiny says nobody wanted its free PCs, but other PC makers say that's unlikely. Read more

20 August, 1999 by Will Knight

Free web-access scheme rolled out across England

The rollout of a £300m government scheme to provide free computers, software and broadband for 270,000 low-income families in England... Read more

13 January, 2010 by Natasha Lomas

Gov't wants 7.5 million more people online by 2014

...to link into the £300m Home Access programme to provide credit for free computers and internet connections to 270,000 families with school children, and... Read more

2 March, 2010

Sorting security fact from fiction

...Cola is giving away cases of coke, that Dell is giving away free computers, that Nokia is giving away free phones, and so on. In... Read more

11 April, 2006 by Deb Shinder

Free is a Four-Letter Word

...for school kids: There's no free lunch. And there are no free computers. The company gave computers to schools that allowed them to put... Read more

6 December, 2000 by Jesse Berst

Jane Wakefield: A spoonful of Internet medicine

Has the backlash against the Internet finally begun? Read more

13 October, 2000 by Jane Wakefield

Government plans to bring free Internet access to poor

...Internet services to Britain's most deprived areas. The project will provide free computers, connection and Internet surfing to people living on estates, tower blocks... Read more

18 April, 2000 by Will Knight

A Year Ago: Cheaper PCs to follow chip crisis

...D'Elia, a Dataquest analyst does not think we will be seeing free computers in the foreseeable future but believes prices will fall to the... Read more

7 January, 2000 by Jane Wakefield

'Vista' PC: Compaq's brave new world

...PC sales, will offer new services, including Internet access, with the legacy-free computers. While PCs have added new technologies over the past few years... Read more

3 November, 1999 by John G.Spooner

Rupert Goodwins' Diary

(Apologies for the non-appearance of the diary last week. This was due to evil hairy demons from the dark chasms of... Read more

12 March, 1999

Rupert Goodwins' Diary

This week: St Peter "can't work under these conditions", bytes not bikes, Linux and lucre, show us yer ID darlin', and TV or not TV? Read more

12 March, 1999 by Rupert Goodwins

Free-PC.com sets off 'sales' frenzy

...free PC. Free-PC.com said Monday it would offer 10,000 free computers to those willing to sit through constant on-screen advertisements. While... Read more

11 February, 1999 by Maria Seminerio

Cheaper PCs to follow chip crisis

...D'Elia, a Dataquest analyst does not think we will be seeing free computers in the foreseeable future but believes prices will fall to the... Read more

7 January, 1999 by Jane Wakefield

Gordon Brown's free PC giveaway for school kids is go

...of the government... The rollout of a £300m government scheme to provide free computers, software and broadband for 270,000 low-income families in England... Read more

12 January, 2010 by Natasha Lomas

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