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Submission + - SPAM: The true cost of one laptop per child

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on Sunday February 24, 2008 @08:24AM

WirePosted writes: "Late last year Uruguay landed its first shipment of 100,000 units of the much lauded, sometimes criticised XO laptop from the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) organisation. Buoyed by that success, Walter Bender, president software and content at OLPC effused over the next countries in line for the little green machine. The question is, however, can the likes of Peru, Mexico, Ethiopia, Haiti, Rwanda, Mongolia and a myriad of other impoverished countries stump up with the cash needed to join the OLPC bandwagon? The sums are not that difficult to do."
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Submission + - SPAM: Why do non-US users have to jump through iTunes ho

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on Sunday February 24, 2008 @07:01AM

WirePosted writes: "An article at APC magazine shows you how virtually anyone, anywhere around the world, can bypass the iTunes and licensing limitations that mean only US citizens get the best content, and get it first — but why do we put up with this?"
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Submission + - SPAM: Firefox celebrates 500+ million downloads

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on Sunday February 24, 2008 @06:28AM

WirePosted writes: "With Firefox 3 nearly ready for primetime, and as Netscape is formally no more, Mozilla celebrates over half a billion Firefox downloads with a program to donate free rice to the poor."
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Submission + - SPAM: Skype hype to soar as 100 billion minute milestone

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on Monday February 18, 2008 @07:05AM

WirePosted writes: "Skype, the p2p Internet phone company that has put the fear of God into just about every telecommunications company on Planet Earth, has reached a milestone that will have those telcos quaking in their boots even harder — 100 billion Skype-to-Skype calls that were, effectively, free — while also winning an award for their 'paradigm shifting' 3 Skypephone."
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Submission + - SPAM: PS3 outsells Xbox 360 for the first time but Wii s

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on Sunday February 17, 2008 @07:08AM

WirePosted writes: "NPD figures show the PS3 achieving a remarkable feat: officially outselling the Xbox 360 in the US for the first time ever in January 2008 — but still coming up 5000 short of outselling the Wii."
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Submission + - Speed: the wow starts now with Windows XP SP3 (itwire.com)

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gadgetopia

on Monday November 26, 2007 @07:02AM

gadgetopia writes: "Test results for Windows XP SP3 from Devil Mountain Software, Inc., have shown a surprising 10% performance boost compared with XP SP2, in stark contrast to slow results for the release candidate of Vista SP1."

Submission + - A slick iPhone unbrick trick (itwire.com)

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on Tuesday November 20, 2007 @08:10AM

gadgetopia writes: "A story of one user whose iPhone had just turned into an iBrick. Now facing the ultimate iPhone nightmare, here's how he used the free iPhone unbrick trick — and it can help you too!"

Submission + - Australia gets world's fastest HSDPA network (itwire.com)

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on Monday September 24, 2007 @11:29PM

gadgetopia writes: "For some time now Telstra have been saying that the Next-G network has already been upgraded to be up to 14.4Mbps compatible, but only offered 3.6Mbps-class devices. Finally, 7.2Mbps-class devices have arrived, and the speed boost is real! http://www.itwire.com/content/view/14604/1103/"

Submission + - Dude, where's my electric car? (itwire.com)

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gadgetopia

on Saturday September 22, 2007 @09:42AM

gadgetopia writes: "The Electric Car is back in the news thanks to a report on GM's Volt Hybrid, highlighting the urgent need for a true mass market electric car that safely enhances lithium-ion battery technology while dealing with the distractions that are hydrogen and ethanol fuel alternatives. http://www.itwire.com/content/view/14567/1103/"

Submission + - Watch out for the latest email phishing attacks (itwire.com)

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gadgetopia

on Tuesday August 21, 2007 @10:32AM

gadgetopia writes: "Arriving in inboxes around the world now are the latest email phishing attacks, socially engineered once again to appear legitimate to try and capture users, experienced or not, off guard — how do you protect yourself? http://www.itwire.com/content/view/14098/1103/1/0/ "

Submission + - Is HP's new 'mobile printing' such a revolution?! (itwire.com)

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gadgetopia

on Monday August 20, 2007 @11:55AM

gadgetopia writes: "A New York Times article uncovers Cloudprint from HP Labs, a new way to print and share a document through your mobile phone and virtually any printer worldwide which sounds kinda great, until you wonder why not just use a USB memory stick or email the document to your web mail?"

Submission + - Axed: Office 2003 goes bye-bye says Microsoft (itwire.com.au)

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gadgetopia

on Wednesday June 20, 2007 @01:20PM

gadgetopia writes: "Kerthump goes the axe on Microsoft's former office suite flagship as OEMs and System Builders find they'll no longer be able to buy it come June 30, as Microsoft swings behind the Office 2007 juggernaut. http://www.itwire.com.au/content/view/13046/1103/"

Submission + - HTC Touch just not advanced enough (itwire.com.au)

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gadgetopia

on Wednesday June 06, 2007 @11:18AM

gadgetopia writes: "Touch screen phones are the latest rage, despite having been around for years, because... duh... someone figured out that fingers are much thicker than the stylus — yet so-called smartphones often just aren't."

Submission + - New MacBook Pros arrive - but where's Turbo Cache? (itwire.com.au)

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on Tuesday June 05, 2007 @03:40PM

gadgetopia writes: "Apple have finally updated their flagship MacBook Pro line to sport the latest Intel Core 2 Duo processors, LED screens, bigger hard drives, a full HD screen option — but the 'Robson' Turbo cache seems missing."

Submission + - As iPhone goes on sale, what problems lie in wait? (itwire.com.au)

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on Monday June 04, 2007 @10:34AM

gadgetopia writes: "The date's been cast in stone: June 29 is the day the already legendary Apple iPhone goes on sale in the US, but as the date of release draws closer, what problems can Apple expect? http://www.itwire.com.au/content/view/12637/1103/1 /0/"

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