$300 Linux Computers
AMD64-based desktop systems will be offered for $300 to consumers. How? It is because of a partnership between Britt Systems and Technalign. To keep the price so low, BrittSystems will ship the computers with a version of the Linux operating system.
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16.7.2006 Microsoft: Some Computers Cannot Upgrade to Windows Vista
Microsoft has published a list of computers from the Tokyo-based manufacturer Toshiba that cannot upgrade to Windows Vista. The Redmond Company offers no explanation why no less than
13 models of Toshiba computers cannot be upgraded to Windows Vista.
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25.4.2007 Intel will deploy Windows 7 on employees computers
According to The Register, Intel plans to deploy Windows 7 on its employee's computers. When asked at a Technology Summit with reporters and analysts in San Francisco whether the company would wait until service pack 1 to deploy Windows 7, Intel's EVP and chief sales and marketing officer Sean Maloney said, "This time I think we'll go faster."
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31.7.2009 Microsoft woos bloggers with free computers, Vista
Microsoft's efforts to woo influential bloggers by sending them free computers loaded with the Vista operating system is generating controversy, with some online writers attacking would-be Vista reviewers for taking what were tantamount to bribes, while recipients defend their editorial independence, arguing that journalism-style rules prohibiting such gifts are outdated.
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3.1.2007 Driver Magic - Automatically updates your computers drivers
Automatically updates your computers drivers quickly and easily.
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4.7.2007 Windows XP Breathes Life into Dead Computers
Microsoft has chosen Windows XP over Windows Vista, its latest operating system to breathe life into dead computers.
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9.11.2007 High-Fashion Ultimate Windows Vista Computers
Microsoft is gearing up for the personal computer "catwalks" of the future. The era when a computer was judged exclusively by what it featured under the hood is well gone.
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8.1.2008 Microsoft Unveils Details for Ultra-Mobile Personal Computers (Origami)
Introduced at CeBIT, the new mobile PC form factor, formerly codenamed "Origami," provides full Windows functionality with an enhanced touch screen, pen and keyboard input.
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9.3.2006 Windows Home Server Power Pack 3 BETA – Includes enhancements for Windows 7-based computers
We are pleased to announce the Windows Home Server Power Pack 3 Beta which improves the Windows Home Server experience with Windows 7 and Windows Media Center by providing the following new features: Backup and restore of computers running Windows 7, Windows 7 Libraries integration, enhancements for Windows Media Center, and better support for netbook computers.
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20.7.2009Zotob Worms Can Affect XP Computers
Microsoft admitted that the Zotob worm and similar worms could also affect certain Windows XP computers in a security advisory issued on Tuesday. Computers running XP Service Pack 1 with a certain configuration were at risk. Previously it was thought that only Windows 2000 systems were vulnerable...
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24.08.2005Two NEC Desktop Computer Fires Reported
Japanese manufacturer NEC
disclosed Monday that at least
two of its desktop computers
in Japan have caught fire
after the power supply units
inside of the computers
malfunctioned...
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18.12.2006Climate Savers Computing Initiative Aims to Increase Energy Savings of Computers and Servers
Microsoft, Google, Intel,
World Wildlife Fund and other
industry leaders form a new
initiative, with a commitment
to purchase and produce
energy-efficient computers...
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12.06.2007XP and Vista: A Look at the Numbers
Popular opinion is that Microsofts Windows Vista operating system is a dud, a view fueled in part by a low adoption rate among businesses. But a look
back at history shows why it may be premature to write Vista off.
By the end of 2007, businesses computers running Vista
accounted for just 3% of the nearly 1 billion computers in use worldwide, according to the research company Gartner. Sounds dismal, but thats the same
percentage that ran the business version of Microsofts previous OS, XP, in 2002, the first year after its release. (Out of 582 million total
computers.) By the end of 2003, business computers running XP accounted for 10% of the total. Gartner projects that by the end of this year, business
computers running Vista will make up 13% of all computers.
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10.05.2008Windows Vista Hardware Assessment 2.1 Available
The Windows Vista Hardware
Assessment is a tool that will
find computers on a network
and perform a detailed
inventory of the computers
using Windows Management
Instrumentation (WMI). Through
use of the detailed inventory
data, the tool will assess and
report whether the computers
can run Windows Vista or the
2007 Microsoft Office system,
where to find drivers for
devices on the computers, and
provide recommendations for
hardware upgrades, where
appropriate.
The Windows Vista Hardware
Assessment tool does not
require the deployment of
agent software on the
computers being inventoried
and assessed. It provides a
secure, quick, and easy way to
determine which computers, in
a networked environment, are
ready for Windows Vista and
the 2007 Microsoft Office
system software.
For home users and
users with a few Windows XP
computers to migrate, use the
Windows
Vista Upgrade Advisor to
understand the readiness of
your computer for Windows
Vista.
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17.08.2007Group Sees Spy Threat in
Lenovo PCs
Citing fears of espionage, the
US-China Economic and Security
Review Commission (USCC) said
Monday it would call for a
probe into the plans for
Lenovo to supply 15,000
computers to the U.S. State
Department. The USCC said the
computers could be bugged to
spy on the U.S. government...
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28.03.2006Microsoft Sues U.S. Retailers
Microsoft filed federal
lawsuits against 10 small
Florida computer retailers
Wednesday, claiming the
companies sold fake copies of
Windows and Office software.
Microsoft said the
retailers infringed on its
trademarks and copyrights by
selling counterfeit copies of
Microsoft software, or
computers with pirated
software installed.
Mary Jo Schrade, a lawyer
for Microsoft, said the
company is seeking damages of
as much as $150,000 for each
case of copyright
infringement, and up to $1
million for each trademark
violation.
The
retailers named in the
lawsuits, filed in U.S.
District Courts in Miami,
Tampa and Jacksonville, are
Cruz Car Audio and Computer,
Ken's Computers Inc.,
American Begonia Corp.,
Compuglobe Inc., Computers &
Laptops Center Inc., PC Touch
of Florida, Take a Byte
Computers Inc., Netfx Pro
Inc., NU2UComputers Inc. and
Onyx Systems...
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28.06.2007HP, Dell, and Apple Each Claim Their Computers Are the "Greenest"
Top manufacturers of personal computers in the U.S. -- Hewlett-Packard Co, Dell Inc, and fourth-place Apple Inc. -- are each claiming to have the
"greenest" PCs on the market. The companies are crafting entire business plans around selling their "greenness" to consumers...
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15.06.2009OLPC computers on their way to US
Anyone who has thought that, as nice as the Linux-powered One Laptop Per Child computers are for the target market of third-world children, they'd
also make a lot of sense for U.S. kids too, is in good company. The mayor of Birmingham, Ala., Larry Langford, had the same thought and the result is
that the city will be deploying 15,000 OLPCs to its school system.
The OLPCs will be given to all first- through eighth-graders in the
city's school system. Some of the computers are expected to be deployed as early as March, with the rest to follow by the beginning of the 2008-9
school year. The first of these small Linux laptops will be used in pilot programs as teachers get up to speed on these computers.
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06.03.2008HP Selects Yahoo for Default Search
Yahoo has signed an agreement
with HP to place a co-branded
Internet toolbar on the
company's computers in North
America and Europe. In
addition, Yahoo would be the
default search portal when HP
computers start shipping with
IE7 later this year...
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29.09.2006Why China is no good for surfing
Esteemed surfers of Neowin may have read one of my previous articles regarding the Internet restrictions China is currently implementing upon all new
computers within its jurisdiction. The link to which can be found, here. The original article covers some of the firewall and Internet surfing
restrictions which owners of new computers will come across, thus hindering their ability to surf freely upon their computers. Developers of the
software, on behalf of the Chinese government state that the software's main use will be to block access to pornography so that it may not inflict
damage upon younger Internet users.
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20.06.2009Symantec: Fake security software on millions of computers
Millions of computer in the US are infected with fake security software, which their owners may have even paid for, according to a cybercrime report
from security company Symantec. Such software would only make computers more vulnerable, possibly allowing cybercrooks to take complete control of an
infected computer. "Lots of times, in fact they're a conduit for attackers to take over your machine. They'll take your credit card
information, any personal information you've entered there and they've got your machine," said Vincent Weafer, Symantec's vice president
for security response. Symantec found 250 different kinds of fake security software installed on computers, all with perfectly legitimate sounding
names such as "Antivirus 2010" and "SpywareGuard 2008".
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19.10.2009China upgrades The Great Firewall, requires new software
While most of you are still reeling from excitement from Apple's releases at their WWDC today, there are some people who may find it a little more
restrictive to get the most out of their computers in the future. In a seemingly superlative effort to construct: "a green, healthy, and harmonious
Internet environment, and preventing harmful information on the Internet from influencing and poisoning young people." The Chinese government have
plans to impose further restrictions on the way its people use their computers by passing legislation which will require that all personal computers
sold within the country, as of July 1, be shipped with software blocking access to certain websites.
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09.06.2009100x Faster Hard Drive In Lab
In the race to make computers
more powerful, magnets may be
out and lasers may be in.
Ultra-rapid pulses of
polarized light fired from
lasers, new tests show, can
outperform conventional
magnetic data writers by as
much as two orders of
magnitude. The technology
could form the foundation of a
new generation of computers
that link lasers to their hard
drives.
Long gone are
the days when computers were
required only to make
mathematical calculations.
Even modest desktop models are
now expected to handle
streaming audio and video from
multiple Web sites
simultaneously, for example.
Those functions require huge
amounts of data to be
transferred quickly to and
from the hard drive.
But current
data-processing systems, which
use magnets to write and read
the binary code that
constitutes computer language,
can only work so fast. Some
users' needs have begun to
bump up against the
limitations of this
technology. If computers are
to become faster, they'll
require a different
data-transfer system, and the
awesome promise of quantum
computing remains years away...
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01.07.2007Police take down hacker network with up to 1 million zombies
In what was described as the largest hacking scam in Canadian history, Quebec provincial police raided several homes across Quebec on Wednesday and
arrested 16 people between the ages of 17 and 26.
The hacking network may have profited by as much as $45 million through the use of
phishing sites set up on compromised computers. The majority of computers attacked by the network were in Poland and Brazil, but some PCs in Manitoba
and the United States were also hacked, he said. Several government computers were also compromised, but investigators will not say in which country.
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21.02.2008White House in Tech Dark Ages
Disconnected phone lines, old computer software, no instant messaging, no outside access to e-mail accounts and no social networking - these were
the things Obama's tech team got to see in the White House when they turned up to work on their first day. The White House new-media team found
it hard to identify the configuration of computers in the White House to do any useful updates. The team members, who were used to working on Mac
systems, found computers with very old versions of Windows installed and in fact not enough computers for use. Laptops were also assigned to only a
few people.
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23.01.2009MP3 Audio Files Most Common On Computers
The typical U.S. computer in
April was home to an average
of 880 MP3 audio files, which
took up about 3 Gbytes of
storage space, according to a
new survey out Thursday.
It also
contained 197 Microsoft Word
files, 100 PDF files, 77
Microsoft Excel files, and 36
Windows Media files.
These figures came
from Internet metrics firm
comScore, which is expanding
its data gathering beyond the
Web with a new service called
comScore Tech Metrix. The
company aims to help client
companies improve their
product planning and marketing
by providing detailed
technology profiles based on
the 2 million people monitored
by its tracking software.
ComScore's
data also shows that U.S.
computers are gaining storage
capacity. The percentage of
computers with hard drives of
at least 70 Gbytes rose from
33% in January to 39% in
April. During the same time,
computers with hard drives of
less than 50 Gbytes declined
from 59% to 53%. ..
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03.08.2007Pentagon computers hacked, several terabytes of data stolen
Computer hackers have once again infiltrated the Pentagon's computer system and this time may have gotten away with some valuable data. The
government and the Wall Street Journal are both pointing fingers at China but the Chinese have denied the accusations. The hackers were able to get
away with stealing several terabytes of data all without being detected. The data stolen relates to the joint strike fighter F-35 which is the most
costly project in Pentagon's history. If there is some good news out of this it's that the most sensitive data about the project is stored on
non-networked computers which remained safe during the attack.
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21.04.2009Viruses 'hit 1m China computers'
Almost one million Chinese computers were hit by viruses during last week's national holidays, state media has reported.
Three
different types of viruses attacked computers during the holiday week, Xinhua news agency said.
It is not the first time China's
web users have faced problems recently.
A Pacific earthquake damaged undersea cables earlier this year, slowing down internet
lines and forcing many people to start using their old fax machines.
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08.10.2007George Lucas turns computers into pencils
Star Wars creator George Lucas aims to bring computers closer to education, and in the process deliver practical learning to kids.
At Dreamforce, Salesforce.com's annual user conference, Lucas on Tuesday talked about his effort to bring together education and technology with
Edutopia, a magazine and Web site published by The George Lucas Educational Foundation, a non-profit organization.
In his keynote
speech, Lucas noted that resources are short at many public schools but that those dollars could be stretched further with the use of technology. But,
he said, teachers are often not sure what to do with all the computers that companies donate.
"The biggest problem with the
technology is they don't know what they're asking for," Lucas said. "Some teachers get it, but a lot of them don't. The ones that do understand
the technology know how to use it and how it works best. They do interactive learning, project-based education." ..
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