The One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) project will install Windows XP on its low-cost laptops for students in developing countries, according to a joint announcement...

After a long dispute, Microsoft has agreed to offer Windows for the computers of 'One Laptop Per Child' (OLPC) educational project for children in developing...

Nicholas Negroponte to develop an inexpensive laptop computer for elementary school children in developing countries. In recent months, the two sides have engaged in more serious talks and started...

Ecuadorian Justice Minister Gustavo Jalkh Friday rejected a report by the International Police (Interpol) about analysis results on computers captured from the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia....

"Energy Processor Unit" Asus has begun building into its motherboards. According to Asus, a rival motherboard company held a press conference to offer an early look at its Computex offerings,...

Comcast Corp on Friday suffered a legal setback in its effort to get out from under a federal regulations restricting the type of set-top box it can offer customers. A U.S. appeals court rejected a...

Dell is taking steps to promote Alienware PCs on its Web site as the PC maker tries to collaborate more--rather than compete outright--with its Alienware...

Sugar Labs Foundation. Sugar is an open-source educational software platform originally developed for OLPC's XO laptop. Bender, former president of software and content at OLPC and later its...

LeapFrog FlyFusion pentop computer does a good job of enticing youngsters to text a little bit less and write a bit more, but it's a bit bulky, requires proprietary paper, and is aimed squarely at...

BlackBerry maker Research In Motion Ltd plans to launch a touch-screen version of the wireless e-mail device in the third quarter as an answer to Apple Inc's iPhone, the Wall Street Journal reported...

Walter Bender has launched Sugar Labs, an organization that will promote the development of the open-source user interface originally developed for the XO laptop. Sugar Labs Foundation will refine...

said its Windows operating system will be available on computers that a nonprofit wants to provide to poor children around the world. In an agreement announced with One Laptop per Child (OLPC) of...

Posted on: Friday, 16 May 2008, 12:00 CDT Warrantech Corporation announced that an agreement has been signed with Friendly Computers and their new division, Computer Renaissance, to provide extended...

told Intel to fork over some documents related to interviews done as the company tried to deal with its deletion of e-mails possibly related to the case at hand. Now, we've received AMD's response to...

Is Linux immune to viruses? I am wondering about Linux and viruses. I have an acquaintance who claims to be very knowledgeable on Linux (I am not...at all), make the statement that "there are no...

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) announced a significant advance in direct methanol fuel cell (DMFC) technology, which transcends the limitations of similar power sources currently on the...

PRWEB ) May 16, 2008 -- Colleges and universities that want to make mobile technology more accessible and affordable for their students are increasingly turning to Dell, the leading supplier of...

Posted on: Friday, 16 May 2008, 09:00 CDT Guests from Microsoft and Acronis Inc. will appear on radio talk show Let's Talk Computers. Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) is the worldwide leader in software,...

Posted on: Friday, 16 May 2008, 09:00 CDT South Jordan-based PC Laptops said this week that it will offer free lifetime labor and service support to owners of PC Club brand computers in Utah and...

Microsoft Corp. 's Windows XP operating system available on the nonprofit's XO laptops. Under the agreement, OLPC plans to begin trials of the XO running Windows in June. Linux will also...

and Foxconn RUS said Friday a 32,0000 square-meter facility will be built in Russia to produce PCSs, and a joint venture agreement calls for a $50 million investment in the company. The facility in...

After a years-long dispute, Microsoft and the computing and education project One Laptop Per Child said Thursday that they had reached an agreement to offer Windows on the organization’s...

Comcast is considering a rate hike for broadband customers who consume more than 250 gigabytes of data each month, though there are no immediate plans for implementation. "Comcast is currently...

All Shots It's hard to believe, but It's was exactly six months ago this week that I picked up a black ASUS Eee PC 700 laptop. At just 4GB of internal storage and a 900MHz Celeron processor, the...

On Thursday, Adobe Systems made publicly available a pre-release version of the next generation of its browser plug-in software, Flash Player 10. Flash is the most widespread web browser-enhancing...

Dell has committed to improving the energy efficiency of its desktops and laptops, and says that by 2010 they will consume 25 percent less energy than...

-- The One Laptop Per Child project is about to find out whether Microsoft Corp., a rival the nonprofit group once derided, is the solution to its problems in spreading inexpensive portable...

Nintendo of America was ordered to pay $21 million to Anascape on Thursday, after the court found that Nintendo's game controllers had infringed on Anascape's technology. In July 2006,...

Posted on: Friday, 16 May 2008, 00:00 CDT By Davin White davinwhite@wvgazette.com A computer technician has been suspended indefinitely without pay in connection to problems at South Branch Career...

Microsoft Corp. and Celestix Networks Inc. arranged to send me a review unit of the Celestix WSA4000 SSL VPN Appliance. In this review, I'll take a look at the installation and configuration of the...

It turns out that isn't the only task that eludes computers. They're also not much good at taking an image and telling you if it's a cat or a dog, or describing if a song is happy or sad. So von Ahn...

BOGOTÁ, May 15 (IPS) - Interpol reported Thursday that the files found on computers that Colombia seized from a FARC guerrilla camp in March were not tampered with and did belong to the rebel...

OCZ Technology this week brought out a new spin on an old product: the build-it-yourself notebook PC. OCZ's DIY Gaming Notebook (part number OCZNBIAS15DIYA on the...

Johnson Space Center has called in extermination experts to keep the pests out of their sensitive and critical systems. The ants have been causing all kinds of trouble in five Texas counties in and...

PLANO, Texas, May 15 /CNW/ -- EDS, a leading global information technology services company, today announced it has been positioned by Gartner, Inc. in the Leaders quadrant in the "Magic Quadrant...

TORONTO, May 15 /CNW/ - Cinram International Income Fund ("Cinram" or the "Fund") (TSX: CRW.UN) today announced that Lewis Ritchie is stepping down from his position as executive vice-president of...

TRADING SYMBOL: Toronto Stock Exchange - CWA.UN VANCOUVER, May 15 /CNW/ - Coast Wholesale Appliances Income Fund (the "Fund") today announced a cash distribution of $0.1025 per unit for the period...

BOGOTA, Colombia – Interpol said Thursday it found no evidence of tampering in computers Colombia says it seized from a slain leftist rebel. The finding discredits Venezuelan assertions that...

Google Inc 's map service to put detailed street-level images on the Internet could raise concerns in Europe if it was introduced there, the EU's data protection agency said on Thursday. Google's...

CNET Networks Inc for about $1.8 billion to boost the television broadcaster's reach across the Internet. The deal could also put to rest a brewing fight between CNET and an activist investor group...

May 15, 2008 — IDG News Service — Microsoft is looking at alternatives to ultra-low-cost laptops in the drive to arm people in developing nations with a way to communicate and...

This week, readers get worked up over rude mobile users - should they be slapped with an ASBO? Also, dirty NHS keyboards get an airing, benefit cheats hunted out with lie detectors and the T5 "tech...

Bogota - Information found in Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) computers belonging to the late Colombian rebel leader Raul Reyes has not been manipulated or modified by external actors,...

Dell Inc. this week vowed that its desktops and laptops will be using 25% less energy by 2010. "Our customers are inspiring us to address the environmental challenges facing our planet," said Albert...

Ulster Bank has lost ten laptop computers over the past two years a spokeswoman has confirmed. Eight of the laptops were said to be used for training purposes, while the bank says the information...

Apple users suck - wah! Well believe it or not, there are plenty of things I, a technology analyst, just love about the tech industry. In an effort to bring some brevity to the opinion space, I bring...

DISH Network 's ViP Series HD DVRs. The new My DVR Expander extends the recording time of the DVR by up to 300 hours of standard-def digital TV or 60 hours of HD TV. The device hooks up to the ViP...

Apple Inc unveiled its largest U.S. store on Wednesday, a glass-facade building sheathed in steel that a senior company official said reflects Apple's plans to expand retail ventures at home and...

"); Speaking to a crowd of CEOs, Bill Gates, Microsoft chairman, showed off prototype technology he said will allow home and office walls to become computers. ...

Solid-state drives have an image problem—their write performance sucks. Or so goes the conventional wisdom, which was certainly born out in our review of the Samsung and Super Talent...