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Intel Proposes ‘Affordable’ $400 Laptop for Developing Countries

Intel is throwing its weight behind a Laptop for developing countries called the “EduWise,” which will sell for $400. Intel’s Craig Barrett says MIT’s $100 notebook is just a gadget, and students in developing nations “need” more.
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Bad Ringtone

One noise you necer want to hear coming from another guy’s cell phone.
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Santa May Deliver Window’s Vista After All

Ok, so maybe everyone jumped the gun last week by saying Vista’s delayed release would hurt notebook computer sales this holiday season. According to the Inquirer and some OEM’s, Microsoft will ship Vista to manufacturers before Christmas, and boxed retail...
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Gateway’s New UltraPortable & New Intel Chip

Gateway is rolling out its first ultraportable notebook in three years and it's the first to use the Intel Centrino Ultra Low Voltage processor. There's no official word on the exact specs of the Centrino ULV, but we are expecting...
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Western Digital Passport Pocket Drives

Western Digital will start shipping a sleek pocket drive next week. The Passport Pocket’s are slim enough and the USB connectors are flexible enough to allow notebook users to plug in two of the drives at a time- with no...
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ToughBooks at 29,000 ft.

A team of 10 climbers, from seven countries and five faiths, will use Panasonic Toughbook notebook computers and rugged PDAs to receive weather updates and other critical information via satellite as they attempt to summit Mount Everest.
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Dell Announcing Business Notebooks w/Verizon and Cingular WAN

Dell is set to officially launch the Latitude D620 and D820 notebook computers today or tomorrow. The notebooks will have Intel Core Duo processors and feature WAN connectivity to Verizon and Cingular. Both versions come with widescreen displays.
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Thumb Drives With LCD and Cursor

The Royal EZVueUSB 2.0 flash drive has a scrollable window that displays the names of the files stored on the drive. The company also makes an SD reader with similar functionality and form factor.
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200GB Notebook Drive from Fujitsu

Fujitsu will ship a 200 GB notebook computer drive by the end of May, The new drive will operate at 4200 rpm, consumes 1.6w and be a great feature for notebooks destined to act as PVR’s.
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Fidelity Loses Laptop, Nearly 200,000 HP Employees’ Data

A Fidelity Investment notebook was stolen, putting 196,000 current and former HP employees’ names, social security numbers and dates of birth at risk.
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PayPal Launches Mobile Payment Service

PayPal Mobile launched a great service that allows users to make payments with their phones. There are a couple of other services that let you pay friends via SMS, but PayPal mobile has a few features that blow the others away.
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Professor Bans Computers in Classroom

The good news is law students are being forced to use wireless, featherweight and silent devices to take notes on a flexible,bright and cheap displays. The bad news is the input devices are also know as “pens,” and the displays ”sheets of paper.”
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World’s Smallest Dual Core

Samsung announced the world’s “smallest dual core notebook.” The specs look great on this, including a 6-cell battery that allows for a 7-hour runtime. This won’t be available in the states, but Asia will snap these up.
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Vista Delayed to 2007

Bill Gates and the Vista developers have been rumored to be taking full advantage of Ghost Recon’s multiplayer missions and that’s eaten away at the dev schedule. I really appreciate that Microsoft worked so hard to get the XBOX out...
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Notebook Vendors Slashing Orders with Intel

Leading notebook vendors, including Dell, Hewlett-Packard (HP), Acer and Asustek Computer, reportedly have slashed their orders for CPUs and chipsets already placed with Intel
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iBook Media Hub

I was getting ready to sell my old iBook G3 on eBay this week, but I decided I might try this very creative mod so I can squeeze a couple more years of life ou...
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The Next Generation of Computers

It's ads like these that remind me of my first computer that my dad bought us when we were kids. I never used that Commodore 64 for much except playing video g...
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Mission Impossible Flash Drive

Kingston DataTraveler This drive encrypts your data and self destructs after 25 failed password attempts. The Kingston DataTraveler Elite Privacy Edition is t...
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Notebook sans Hard Drive

PC World Reports on a Samsung prototype notebook that uses 32GB of flash memory in place of a hard drive. Faster boot times, no moving parts, but a $960 price t...