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Aussie public still behind PCs for Kids
News More than a month after Microsoft took on a small Australian charity, the issue remains in the spotlight, with public support firmly behind PCs for Kids, according to a recent survey. A ZDNet poll has shown that of nearly 1500 responses, 74 percent...
[August 20, 2001, 8:30]
Microsoft in dispute with children's charity for dodging Windows fees
News The Australian charity "PCs for Kids" received threatening late night telephone calls from Microsoft's Australian legal counsel, according to reports on the technology mailing list Polytechbot. Microsoft told ZDNet that it would no longer be...
[July 16, 2001, 11:56]
The Net's new neighbourhood watch
News Script kids, Web vandals, and the occasional cybercriminal scan vast numbers of computers on the Internet, looking for the few vulnerable to a particular security hole. For script kids and vandals, it's a game of percentages.
[December 6, 2000, 12:09]
Phone/PDA viruses loom on the horizon
News The cool kids in Finland are doing everything they can to make the devices different," he said. Hypponen, who follows the virus exchange underground, sees many kids -- not just virus writers -- interested in personalising their PDAs and phones.
[September 29, 2000, 16:19]
Jane Wakefield: Educate, agitate, organise
News According to the latest government report, nearly 90 percent of primary schools and almost 100 percent of secondary schools are now wired, conjuring up a picture of kids happily surfing away in every classroom in the country as part of Tony's...
[September 11, 2000, 14:58]
Charity's battle with Microsoft hits a nerve
News Colin and Therresa Bayes, who set up PCs for Kids in 1999, have been embroiled in a standoff with Microsoft over the installation of obsolete operating systems on recycled computers which are donated to underprivileged kids.
[July 26, 2001, 11:08]
Aussie charity tells Bill to 'get real'
News PCs for Kids owner Colin Bayes said. Microsoft's corporate affairs manager Julie Inman told ZDNet that under-privileged kids in East Timor would receive the technology donation via the Rotary International project, "in association with PCs for Kids".
[August 1, 2001, 9:38]
The PC Detective Pro
Downloads The PC Detective is a spy utility that monitors your PC or multiple PCs over a LAN logging all activity including Web sites visited, applications run, all keystrokes, chat conversations, instant messages, and regular screen captures all in...
[March 6, 2006, 12:04]
Tukanas File Encryption
Downloads It hides files from kids, friends and co-workers, safeguards them from viruses, trojans, worms and spyware, and even protects them from networked PCs, cable users and hackers. All files are stored on a single file with a password you set for.
[December 2, 2007, 6:00]
New-look PCs coming this autumn (part 2)
News Mattel's products may sound like kids stuff, but they feature Intel's small Flex ATX motherboard -- developed for use in Easy PCs -- and Universal Serial Bus technology for connecting peripherals packed into small, brightly coloured chassis.
[August 5, 1999, 8:23]
Charity wins global support in Microsoft dispute
News It is clear that the international audience is concerned that a well known philanthropist company and its major stake holder Mr Gates must understand that their hard line on charities is very damaging to their record," PCs for Kids president Colin...
[July 20, 2001, 9:15]
AMD: I want my MTV PC
News Mattel also backed brand-name computers for kids, such as the Barbie PC. But "I think that college students and a lot of potential customers that are out looking for PCs and home entertainment systems might be sceptical of this product.because...
[January 10, 2002, 8:56]
F-Secure hits out at surveillance program
News The software, released at the beginning of March, sells for $49.95 and is advertised by Bangkok, Thailand-based Vervata as a tool to monitor kids and spouses suspected of infidelity. New software that hides on cell phones and captures call logs and...
[March 30, 2006, 9:55]
VeriSign warns of organised gangs behind Net crime
News It's gone away from kids having fun to criminals trying to get some financial benefits from what they are doing," he said. The criminal groups increasingly rely on massive numbers of compromised home PCs to launch their attacks, said Mark Griffiths...
[November 17, 2004, 8:40]
OLPC faces 'vicious' rivalry in laptop market
News There's more than a billion kids in the developing world so there's room for everybody. The very first thing is that, almost everywhere we went, if it was in a remote place, the people would say the kids only show up for school half the time.
[September 17, 2008, 11:32]
Learning lessons from open source
Leader Outrage greeted Microsoft's threatened legal action four years ago against Australian charity PCs for Kids, which refurbished old computers for disadvantaged children and was re-installing Windows on PCs.
[May 9, 2005, 13:40]
Microsoft's international man a mystery no more
News Microsoft launched its refurbisher programme only after intense criticism for the way it treated Australian charity PCs for Kids. We opened up a refurbishment centre in Namibia, and that is just one piece of an end-to-end initiative where we...
[June 21, 2005, 16:40]
Is the Mac mini good value?
News Then again, "it fits the phenomenon of people adding PCs to their home -- a PC in the kids' room or in the kitchen -- and in those terms it stacks up pretty well, because when you've finished adding some of the basics to it, it still comes in at...
[January 13, 2005, 15:40]
Canonical hits back at Microsoft in netbook spat
Blog Comment And the more Linux desktops which ship, the more the market for Linux desktops expands, as Linux growth is through word of mouth - users buy into the Linux experience because their friends, partners or kids have.
[April 16, 2009, 9:02]
Via unveils mini notebook and motherboards
News You've got to carry a notebook everywhere these days, even if you're taking the kids out," he said. As a result, hobbyists have gravitated to the company's motherboards and chips for turning PCs into cigar boxes and Star Wars shrines.
[June 6, 2007, 10:04]
