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Article | 20/09/2007 IDF - Intel adds WiMax, 3G support to Linux device plans
Laptops aren't the only computers slated to get support for WiMax next year.
Article | 20/09/2007 IDF - Intel details Moorestown platform for ultramobile PCs
Intel will detail its future Moorestown platform for ultramobile PCs this week, even though the chips won't be available until 2009.
Article | 20/09/2007 IDF - Intel shows AIR, Ubuntu running on ultramobile PC
Intel plans to show ultramobile PC devices based on its upcoming Menlow chip platform running Adobe Integrated Runtime (AIR) and the Ubuntu Linux dist...
Article | 17/09/2007 Report: OLPC's '$100 laptop' now costs $188
The One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) project has raised the price of its XO laptop to US$188, according to an Associated Press report.
Article | 13/09/2007 Government locks down $2 billion Communications Fund
Labor's Fibre-to-the-Node (FttN) broadband plans have been jeopardized by a federal government move to lock down the $2 billion Communications Fund, w...
Article | 12/09/2007 Vista pirates safe from darkness, for now
Microsoft has denied it has switched on an anti-piracy measure in Windows Vista that would result in a "black screen of darkness" for unlicensed OEM c...
Article | 12/09/2007 Microsoft releases fixes for just four flaws
Microsoft has issued four security bulletins that patched just four vulnerabilities in Windows, Visual Studio and the MSN and Windows Live Messenger s...
Article | 11/09/2007 Faster Via processor finds home in updated OQO handheld
Via Technologies Inc. is shipping a faster version of its C-7M ultra low-voltage processor, and the 1.6GHz chip has found a home in an updated version...
Article | 6/09/2007 HP announces five new handhelds, gaming PC
HP has announced five new iPaq handhelds and three new HP Compaq laptops, along with dozens of handheld accessories, software packages and services.
Article | 3/09/2007 OLPC parts shortage manageable, says maker
The company manufacturing the One Laptop Per Child notebook played down the impact of component shortages in the industry, rebutting local reports tha...
Article | 27/08/2007 Tassie ambos move to electronic reporting
The Tasmanian Ambulance Service (TAS) will procure some 70 rugged notebook computers over four years to facilitate the migration off its paper-based p...
Article | 24/08/2007 New York cabbies set strike date to protest GPS systems
A group of 10,000 New York City taxi drivers has vowed to strike for two days, Sept. 5 and 6, primarily to protest GPS systems being installed in thei...
Article | 24/08/2007 Seagate to offer solid-state drives
Seagate Technology plans to add solid-state drives based on flash memory chips to its lineup of storage products sometime in 2008, the company said Th...
Article | 6/08/2007 Lenovo sees Q1 profits soar on higher PC shipments
Lenovo Group's fiscal first-quarter profit jumped more than tenfold on higher PC shipments as the company's ongoing efforts to cut costs and operate m...
Article | 7/08/2007 Sony asks small fortune for flash-based Vaio
Sony has introduced a flash memory-based Vaio notebook that, compared to a hard-drive model, costs US$700 extra and delivers 68GB less storage.
Article | 4/07/2007 Sony looks back - and forward - at 10 years of Vaio
Ten years ago this week Sony launched its first Vaio laptop computers. The PCG-705 and 707 went on sale in Japan on July 1 and were followed quickly ...
Article | 25/06/2007 Apple sells one of every seven notebooks
Apple got help from the update to its MacBook laptops to push its share of the laptop market up nearly two points in May, to 14.3 percent, a research ...
Article | 6/06/2007 Hands on with Toshiba's light laptop
In the race to make ever lighter laptop computers, Toshiba is poised to take the lead in the 12-inch screen class with new models coming from June.
Article | 4/06/2007 Encryption vendor sues Sony for patent infringement
Certicom, a Canadian vendor of cryptographic encryption tools, has filed a lawsuit against Sony alleging that the content protection technologies used...
Article | 25/05/2007 10 years of VAIO
Sony marks ten years of VAIO production with release of new Type T notebook, includes Core 2 Duo, TV functions and 802.11n

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