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Libya to Buy 1.2M Linux Laptops?
Libya reportedly plans to purchase 1.2 million low-cost laptops, after signing a deal recently. Nicholas Negroponte, founder and chairman of the OLPC (One Laptop Per Child) nonprofit association, told the New York Times that the deal had been reached in Libya on Oct. 10. Libya will pay the OLPC $250 million, according to the Times.…
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Wireless Wire: News from T-Mobile, Cisco, Novatel, Trapeze, Sprint
The post-CTIA doldrums have finally dissipated, so once again we have wireless news to pass along. No doubt you’re not surprised to know that manufacturers and service providers save up their Good Stuff to wow us with all at once. If they didn’t, we wouldn’t go to those shows and their controlled-message environments, and then…
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Transmeta Files a Patent Lawsuit Against Intel
Transmeta, a Santa Clara, Calif. company, has filed a patent infringement lawsuit against Intel, claiming the microprocessor giant has used its architecture and power efficiency technologies in its products. The lawsuit, which was filed Oct. 11 in U.S. District Court in Delaware, claims that Intel has infringed on 10 Transmeta patents. In its complaint, Transmeta…
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Expert: Hackers Will Break Vista’s PatchGuard
MONTREAL—A computer security expert is predicting that hackers will crack the controversial PatchGuard kernel anti-tampering technology coming in Windows Vista within one year of its release. Alexander Czarnowski, chief executive of Avet, in Warsaw, Poland, said he believes it’s inevitable that the technology will be broken once the final version of Windows Vista is released…
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Slide Show: VTN’s Afternoon Lip Sync
They claim alcohol was not a factor. Maybe it should have been. It was the middle of the day, the California desert sun was still shining, the bar wasn’t even open, yet Ingram Micro event staffers persuaded otherwise reasonable men and women—Ingram Micro staff and VAR partners at Ingram’s Venture Tech Network Fall 2006 Invitational,…
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Microsoft to PC Buyers: Don’t Wait for Vista
NEW YORK—If you are contemplating a PC purchase but concerned about waiting for Windows Vista, don’t wait, said Microsoft officials at the DigitalLife conference here. G. Michael Sievert, corporate vice president of Windows Client marketing at Microsoft, opened the DigitalLife conference on Oct. 12 with a keynote in which he laid out the company’s plans…
