Sakshat, $10 laptop from India?
Government hopes its mini-computer, the world's cheapest, will bridge the digital divide between rich and poor.
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7.2.2009
The $150 laptop saga: Where’s this mystery laptop?
In July I ordered a $150 Linux-powered laptop in what appeared to be the deal of the century. I’m still waiting. And waiting. But my order is coming–really.
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11.9.2007
$100 Laptop now?
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology says it is close to making available a laptop for developing markets that would cost around $100 USD. At a minimum the computer would feature a color screen, Wi-Fi, a 500MHz processor, and 1GB of flash memory.
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Want to see a MultiTouch laptop?
Channel 9's Charles Torre has put together half an hour of footage of his trip to Microsoft Research in the UK where he got to take a look at some of Microsoft’s work behind MultiTouch laptops and LCD monitors.
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28.10.2007
The First Dual Core Laptop
A dual core laptop was long awaited among the dual core family.
The one we are talking about is produced by WidowPC and is named Sting 917X2.
This new notebook uses the AMD Athlon 64 X2 4800+ processor, making it the fastest dual core laptop.
Though, it seems that other companies like Alienware, Vodoo or Sager will soon launch similar products.
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3.12.2005
The Ultimate Windows Vista laptop
The most visible part of Windows Vista is the Aero interface, and while we can't deny that it looks very swish we find it very hard to get excited by a shiny new GUI. Instead, we're looking forward to new Vista hardware, which includes a new use for the humble USB memory key and much, much more. So what will the ultimate Windows Vista notebook offer?
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25.1.2007
Xbox 360 Laptop mk2
Behold, the Xbox 360 Laptop mk2! It may look a bit like its first generation sibling, but don't be fooled. This Xbox laptop is a bit thinner, significantly lighter, and has some essential upgrades if you're gonna build one yourself.
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18.4.2007
Microsoft security zaps laptop tracer
As Microsoft takes its first steps into the consumer PC security space, it is discovering that security software can do more than protect systems; it can also cause trouble.
Windows OneCare Live, freely available as a test version since Nov. 29, has been found to disable Absolute Software's Computrace LoJack, an application that functions like a homing device to help recover a laptop after theft.
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16.12.2005
Students Brace for iPod, Laptop Thefts
The standard white ear buds immediately call attention to an iPod. Switching to black earphones can camouflage the popular music player, making it look like a less desirable brand. It's also a good idea to keep your iPod stowed out of sight to avoid becoming a target.
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21.8.2006
Vista draining laptop batteries, patience
Some of Microsoft's most important customers aren't happy with the battery life offered by notebooks running Windows Vista.
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4.5.2007
The low-cost laptop that Apple should have built
The buzz around the XO Laptop, aka the One Laptop Per Child group’s “$100 laptop” is growing, with an innovative donation program coming in time for the holidays.
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8.10.2007
Fujitsu Shows 500GB Laptop Drive
The latest entry in high-capacity notebooks is Fujitsu, which will release a laptop with a 500GB drive in May.
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25.2.2008
$400 Laptop Sparks Frenzy at Wal-Mart
Cheap Apple iBooks aren't the only laptops that can get consumers in a buying frenzy it seems. On Friday at a Wal-Mart store in Orlando, Florida, customers pushed and climbed over each other to get their hands on a $400 HP notebook, with one man fighting a security guard.
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29.11.2005
Dell Ships Laptop with Blu-ray Drive
Dell on Monday became the latest manufacturer to support Sony's Blu-ray discs in its notebook computers, a move that was largely expected as Dell is a founding member behind the format.
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12.12.2006
The low-cost laptop offer Microsoft cant refuse
As the release of low-cost laptops based on Intel's upcoming Atom processor draws near, Microsoft is getting boxed into a corner.
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1.4.2008
Windows 7 will give your laptop longer battery life
It's no surprise that Windows 7 is getting good reviews and praise as the operating system is proving itself to be a rock solid platform.
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2.9.2009
Microsoft: Vista Wireless Access Could Cause Laptop Battery Drain
Users running Windows Vista on laptops may see batteries draining faster than they expect, Microsoft said in a warning, because some wireless access points aren't configured to take advantage of the new operating system's Wi-Fi power-saving mode.
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9.12.2006
TurnOffLCD - How To Manually Turn Off Notebook or Laptop LCD Screen
Whenever I stop using my laptop but I decide to leave it turned on, I’ll make sure that I turn off the LCD screen.
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22.7.2008
Fancy a free copy of Office 2010 and a laptop to run it on?
Microsoft is looking for family, student or home business users of their successful Office suite to participate in the beta program for Office 2010.
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23.6.2009
Extend Laptop/Notebook Battery Life on Windows 7 & Vista with Aerofoil
In past we have covered Battery4life & Imtec Battery Mark tools for laptop battery. Now here is one more extremely useful tool Aerofoil which helps you to extend & improve Laptop battery life when you are using Windows Vista or Windows 7 as your OS.
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25.10.2009Sakshat, the $20 laptop from India
Presumably said with a straight face, India unveiled its Sakshat $20 laptop yesterday. What's hard to come by is how the actual laptop will
be built as are no known pictures of the laptop published. The Sakshat laptop, which translates to "before your eyes", will boast 2GB of storage,
WiFi, Ethernet and use only 2 watts of power. That is all that is known for now about the cheap laptop but it has many wondering if it is anything
more than vaporware. The idea of a $20 laptop is going to be quite the task and is slated for a release this summer.
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04.02.2009India wants to develop a $10 laptop for students
Even the $100 laptop long envisioned by One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) seems pricey in contrast to a $10 laptop announced this week in India...
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30.07.2008$100 Laptop Goes on Sale for $200
MIT Professor Nicholas Negroponte's much-touted $100 laptop is now officially on sale via the One Laptop per Child Foundation's Web site, with
production cost now totaling $200. The organization previously said the laptop would cost $176 in April and raised that estimate to $188 last month...
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30.10.2007Indian Engineers Aiming for $10 Laptop
Engineers in India are looking
into ways to create a laptop
that would cost a mere $10.
The effort came in response to
the increasing price of the
so-called '$100 laptop.'..
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05.05.2007$100 Laptop to be Sold Commercially
The One Laptop Per Child
Foundation indicated Monday
that it might begin selling a
version of the "$100
laptop" it is now
producing for educational use.
The system would become
available by the holiday
season for a price of about
$350 USD...
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25.07.20078 Hour Laptop Battery Due in 2006
The need to change a laptop battery every few hours may soon be an annoyance of the past. Intel and Matsushita, the maker of Panasonic brand products, are jointly developing technology that would produce laptop batteries with 8 hours of power per charge...
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26.08.2005$100 Laptop Gets Price
Increase
One Laptop Per Child founder
Nicholas Negroponte used the
Wall Street Journal's D
Conference in Southern
California Wednesday to show
off a prototype of the
much-anticipated $100 laptop
for emerging markets. However,
he acknowledged that the
device will initially be
priced around $130 to $140
USD...
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02.06.2006Samsung backs out of Symbian, Nokia buys its stake
Samsung has agreed to sell its stake in Symbian to Nokia for a reported $410 million this week, pushing Nokia ever closer to total ownership...
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04.09.2008Another Laptop with Vet Info
Missing
The Department of Veterans
Affairs disclosed Monday that
a laptop containing data on up
to 38,000 veterans has gone
missing. The loss of the data
is the result of a possible
theft of a laptop from
third-party contractor Unisys...
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08.08.2006Quanta Selected to Build $100
Laptop
Taiwan's Quanta has been
selected as original design
manufacturer, or ODM, for
MIT's $100 laptop, the One
Laptop per Child organization
said late Tuesday. While the
company may not be familiar to
many, it has manufactured
computers for Hewlett-Packard
and Dell among other
companies...
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14.12.2005$100 Laptop Prototype Unveiled
The One Laptop Per Child
foundation unveiled the first
working prototype of its $100
laptop at the Seven Countries
Task Force Meeting on Tuesday.
The device runs Fedora Linux
and features a color screen,
Wi-Fi, a 500MHz processor, and
1GB of flash memory...
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24.05.2006Two Arrested in Military
Laptop Theft
Two Virginia teens were
arrested and charged over the
weekend with the theft of a
laptop which contained data on
25 million active-duty and
retired military personnel.
The two claim they were not
aware of what the laptop
contained...
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07.08.2006Seagate Encrypts Laptop Hard Drives
Seagate is shipping two new
models in its Momentus line of
laptop hard drives - one that
includes built-in encryption
software to protect data
integrity, and another that
offers better protection of
data if the laptop is dropped...
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13.03.2007MIT Picks Maker of $100 Laptop
Quanta will manufacture cheap
laptop for distribution to the
world's children...
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14.12.2005IEEE to Revise Laptop Battery Standard
Following the recent
high-profile cases of laptop
batteries exploding and the
resulting unprecedented recall
of over 10 million batteries,
the IEEE announced this week
plans to revise its laptop
battery standard to make them
more reliable while improving
performance...
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10.11.2006Intel, '$100 laptop' project make peace
The nonprofit that aims to
seed the developing world with
inexpensive laptop computers
for schoolchildren has made
peace with Intel Corp., the
project's biggest and most
powerful rival, The Associated
Press has learned.
The One Laptop Per Child
program and Intel said Friday
that the chip maker would join
the board of the nonprofit and
contribute funding.
The nonprofit effort -
known as the "$100 laptop"
because of the low price it
hopes to reach with mass
production - has been trying
to line up governments in
several countries to buy the
machines, which for now cost
$175. But competition from
Intel's child-focused
Classmate PC has made things
tough in some countries for
One Laptop Per Child...
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13.07.2007Kids' Laptop Hits World
Spotlight
MIT developers show U.N.
delegates a prototype of its
$100 laptop designed to
promote tech around globe...
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18.11.2005Pension details of 109,000 members on stolen laptop
A laptop which contained the personal details of 109,000 pensioners in the UK has been stolen, according to an article from the BBC. The laptop was
stolen from an office in Buckinghamshire, and was not encrypted, although it was protected by a password, the Pensions Trust said. The office was
owned by NorthgateArinso, who provide the Pensions Trust with software.
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29.05.2009Palm Introduces New Laptop Product Line
Aimed as a 'companion' for
its smartphones but
essentially a computer on its
own, Palm introduced the
Foleo, a Linux-powered
laptop-like device...
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31.05.2007Up Close: The OLPC $188 laptop
AMD had an OLPC laptop on hand to showcase the fact that its Geode processor powers the device designed for emerging markets..
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10.01.2008