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India's high-tech cities, web whispers, Babbage's Difference engine and more...

Photo HP is targeting the mini laptop market with this sub-£300 offering aimed at mobile workers and school children. This month silicon.com senior reporter Nick Heath visited India to check out the high-tech goings on in Hyderabad and Chennai.

Tags: hyderabad, robots, bangalore

[29 Apr 2008]

Tech-savvy workers to make IT decisions in future

News Within two years, the brand and model of the enterprise laptop could be decided by the user, not the IT department. End users' preferences will account for up to 50 per cent of all purchasing decisions relating to hardware, software and services...

Tags: it, laptop, internet, smart phones

[14 Apr 2008]

Photos: Road testing wi-fi at 320kmph

Photo Here a wi-fi-enabled laptop has detected the onboard network: WiFi-TGV. During the train trip from Paris to Basel, Switzerland, the internet connection was not always reliable - perhaps owing to the number of laptop-wielding journalists testing it...

Tags: business traveller, train, wi-fi

[28 Mar 2008]

OLPC on the hunt for CEO

News In the wake of a spat with former partner Intel and a reorganisation, Nicholas Negroponte is looking for a chief executive for his One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) organisation, according to BusinessWeek. Read all about IT…

Tags: olpc, microsoft, intel, ceo

[07 Mar 2008]

How Cisco IT Deployed a Laptop-Based IP Telephony Solution

whitepaper Cisco IT reduced cell phone costs while increasing productivity by providing mobile employees with Cisco IP Communicator, a software application that transforms a laptop into the equivalent of a Cisco IP phone.

Tags: voip - ip telephony

[04 Mar 2008]

Linux-based laptop latest OLPC rival?

News PC maker and services company Elonex is to launch a £99 laptop aimed at students, at an upcoming educational conference. The UK manufacturer will unveil the 'One' laptop at The Education Show, which is to be held in Birmingham from 28 February to 1...

Tags: olpc, linux, laptop, education

[19 Feb 2008]

Apple fattens its Touch and iPhone dials in more gigs

News   Photos: Apple flying high at Macworld   Photos: Apple's Jobs slims down laptop for Macworld 2008   Photos: High life at the high-tech hotel   Photos: Who's in the iPhone queue?

Tags: apple, touch, ipod, iphone

[05 Feb 2008]

Microsoft to trial XP on OLPC's $100 laptops

News Microsoft will begin trials of its Windows XP operating system on the One Laptop per Child (OLPC) XO laptop this month. Microsoft is one of a number of companies involved in the OLPC project to develop a $100 laptop to allow children in developing...

Tags: $100 laptop, olpc, linux, xo

[11 Jan 2008]

OLPC's Negroponte hits out at Intel

News Nicholas Negroponte, the founder of One Laptop per Child (OLPC), has hit out at Intel's decision to leave the $100 laptop project, accusing the chip-maker of contributing nothing while it was a member.

Tags: olpc, project, intel, negroponte

[07 Jan 2008]

Bill Gates sings at CES for one last time

News As for PCs, Microsoft plans to show off a new Lamborghini laptop from Asus, as well as Lenovo's new IdeaPad consumer laptop line, which includes a model that uses flash memory rather than a hard drive for storage.

Tags: vista, olympics, ford, gates

[07 Jan 2008]

Photos: 10 gadgets to wish for this Xmas

Photo So if we can't have the $100 laptop, we want one of these please Santa. You'd think it's a bit of a stretch to call a laptop a gadget but not so with this dainty offering from Asus, which is aptly called the miniBook.

Tags: gadgets, mobile, smart phone, player

[03 Dec 2007]

Dear silicon.com... Vista uptake… HMRC blunder… iPhone too cool or too costly?

Comment I recently bought a new laptop and very quickly got fed up with the bundled Vista Home Premium. What's got silicon.com readers reaching for their keyboards this week? Reader Comments of the Week showcases how our users are responding to the latest...

Tags: vista, iphone, hmrc, microsoft

[29 Nov 2007]

$100 laptop production gets underway

News Following a number of delays, the One Laptop per Child Foundation's (OLPC) much-awaited XO laptop for children in developing countries has finally gone into mass production. Nicholas Negroponte, founder and chairman of the OLPC, said: "Today...

Tags: $100 laptop, china, olpc, production

[07 Nov 2007]

Lost laptops ground UK business travellers

News But despite this, and the rising levels of laptop theft and high-profile examples of data loss, businesses are failing to understand the need to encrypt their hard drives or better protect sensitive data, according to separate research conducted...

Tags: laptop, business traveller, airport, mobile devices

[06 Nov 2007]

The Weekly Round-Up: 02.11.07

Round-Up So a real fillip for the XO, which was previously referred to more memorably as the $100 laptop. Good news: the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) project has a customer - the Uruguayan government has confirmed it has placed an order for 100,000 of the...

Tags: chip and bin, round-up, $100 laptop, bbc

[02 Nov 2007]

Tech Visions: TV extends its reach

Comment We've had fire departments starting to use Slingboxes so that when they are out fighting fires they can use a cell phone or laptop to view what helicopter cameras from the local news are showing. The power of broadcasters to dictate what you watch...

Tags: digital media, mobile tv, slingbox, internet video

[24 Oct 2007]

Trevor Baylis

AS Profile The panel felt his work has been extremely influential in the creation of the $100 laptop for use in developing countries. If Baylis hadn't raised the possibility of helping Africa by using technology such as his hand-cranked radio, it could be...

[12 Oct 2007]

Nicholas Negroponte

AS Profile Consolidating his position from last year is the man behind the One Laptop Per Child organisation - and the low-cost laptop that is aiming to bring computing to schoolchildren in less developed parts of the world.

[12 Oct 2007]

Buy one $100 laptop, give one 'free'

News The One Laptop Per Child scheme has announced it will make its ruggedised laptops available in the US for a limited time period. The XO laptop, designed for use as an educational tool in developing countries, will be available under a scheme called...

Tags: xo, olpc, $100 laptop

[25 Sep 2007]

Who pays your broadband bill?

Comment While remote working once might have involved a hotel network connection for a road warrior's laptop, it is now far more likely to encompass other locations, in particular the home. Depending on their job role, many employees will find their...

Tags: security policy, mobile phones, laptops, broadband

[21 Aug 2007]

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