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Microsoft puts Windows 8 in developer hands 
Software
Microsoft puts Windows 8 in developer hands
By Bill Rigby | Sep 14, 2011 | Comment Now 
Free test version on Samsung hardware given away.
 
Laptops stolen from Byron High School  
Hardware
Laptops stolen from Byron High School
Feb 7, 2011 | 2 Comments 
Data projector and cash also gone.
 
Telstra and Acer launch Next G embedded laptops 
Telco/ISP
Telstra and Acer launch Next G embedded laptops
By Jenny Eagle | Aug 10, 2009 | 2 Comments 
Superfast broadband bundled into laptops.
 
HP offers remote wipe service for laptops 
Security
HP offers remote wipe service for laptops
By Daniel Robinson | Jun 4, 2009 | Comment Now 
HP has introduced a tracking and recovery service on selected laptops, enabling business customers to locate lost or stolen laptops and remotely delete data.
 
Microsoft pushes Vista for school laptops 
Software
Microsoft pushes Vista for school laptops
By Ry Crozier | Feb 9, 2009 | Comment Now 
Microsoft is backing Vista as its platform of choice for the Federal Government’s student laptop project, despite XP’s dominance in the netbook market.
 
$42 billion stimulus package doesn’t impress ACS 
Finance
$42 billion stimulus package doesn’t impress ACS
Feb 5, 2009 | Comment Now 
Overnight approval of the Federal government’s latest economic stimulus package has failed to win Australian Computer Society (ACS) support with the peak body accusing the ...
 
Open source USB key to $2bn school laptop plan 
Hardware
Open source USB key to $2bn school laptop plan
By Ry Crozier | Dec 10, 2008 | Comment Now 
The Rudd Government’s promise of a laptop for every child could fail without at least $2 billion in public funding, but an alternative USB ‘computer’ system pioneered in France ...
 
DET wants thin laptops at $500 for NSW students 
Hardware
DET wants thin laptops at $500 for NSW students
By Lilia Guan | Dec 5, 2008 | Comment Now 
Just days after securing an extra $180 million from the Commonwealth for computers for schools, the NSW Department of Education and Training (DET) has called for tenders to ...
 
Linux netbook thieves ignore laptops 
Software
Linux netbook thieves ignore laptops
By Egan Orion | Aug 28, 2008 | Comment Now 
Elonex web books that are preloaded with Ubuntu Linux and currently featured at Carphone Warehouse in Bracknell, UK are apparently is such high demand that thieving opportunists...
 
Will new Dell laptops tempt mobile workers? 
Hardware
Will new Dell laptops tempt mobile workers?
By Phil Muncaster | Aug 14, 2008 | Comment Now 
Computing giant Dell has launched a new range of Latitude and Precision laptops, designed to provide mobile business users with improved battery life, usability and durability..
 
Feds claim right to laptops 
Security
Feds claim right to laptops
By Shaun Nichols | Aug 2, 2008 | Comment Now 
The United States Department of Homeland Security (DHS) will continue to allow its agents to seize notebook computers and retain the devices indefinitely.
 
Boffins promise flexible laptops 
Hardware
Boffins promise flexible laptops
By Robert Jaques | Jul 3, 2008 | Comment Now 
Pioneering work to develop next-generation plastics could pave the way for electronic billboards, flexible laptops and high-definition television screens only 1cm thick.
 
Asus laptops to offer 'instant-on' Linux 
Hardware
Asus laptops to offer 'instant-on' Linux
By Guy Dixon | May 31, 2008 | Comment Now 
An 'instant-on' version of Linux from US-based firm DeviceVM will soon appear on Asus laptops alongside Windows Vista..
 
Seagate Momentus comes to Dell laptops 
Hardware
Seagate Momentus comes to Dell laptops
By Robert Jaques | May 21, 2008 | Comment Now 
Dell has become the first PC manufacturer to ship systems using Seagate's Momentus 7200.3 hard drive, which the vendor claims is the industry's first 7,200rpm 320GB hard drive ...
 
Ultra low-cost laptops to remain niche 
Hardware
Ultra low-cost laptops to remain niche
By Robert Jaques | May 12, 2008 | Comment Now 
Ultra low-cost notebook PCs will remain niche products despite recent hype, and will not become market "blockbusters", experts predict..
 
Laptops to overtake desktops in 2009 
Hardware
Laptops to overtake desktops in 2009
By Robert Jaques | May 8, 2008 | Comment Now 
The PC microprocessor market is heading for an "inflection point" in late 2008 or early 2009, when the number of microprocessors shipping for notebooks will exceed those ...
 
US State Department loses a lot of laptops 
Hardware
US State Department loses a lot of laptops
By Egan Orion | May 7, 2008 | Comment Now 
It has surfaced that the US State Department can't account for up to about 1,000 laptops, perhaps as many as 400 of which belonged to the department's Anti-Terrorism Assistance ...
 
Boffins enlist laptops in quake research 
Hardware
Boffins enlist laptops in quake research
By Shaun Nichols | Apr 4, 2008 | Comment Now 
Researchers at the University of California Riverside are asking PC users to help with earthquake research..
 
Laptops drive global PC sales growth 
Hardware
Laptops drive global PC sales growth
By Robert Jaques | Mar 13, 2008 | Comment Now 
Worldwide PC shipments will grow 12.8 percent in 2008 to reach 302 million units fuelled by demand for portable computers, according to IDC's latest Worldwide Quarterly PC ...
 
More Linux-based laptops from Dell 
Hardware
More Linux-based laptops from Dell
By Guy Dixon | Jan 29, 2008 | Comment Now 
Ubuntu pre-loaded on Inspiron machines.
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