Wednesday, September 26, 2007

'Give One, Get One' Program for OLPC Begun (PC Magazine)


'Give One, Get One' Program for OLPC Begun (PC Magazine)
PC Magazine - In an effort to bolster interest, the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) initiative is kicking off a short-term "give one, get one" project that will send one computer to the purchaser and a second to a child in a developing nation.

Apple, Danish board disagree over iBook flaw (InfoWorld)
InfoWorld - Apple does not agree that a manufacturing defect caused power failures in an iBook G4 laptop sold in Denmark, but it refunded the customer's money, said the country's Consumer Complaints Board.

Notebooks, Emerging Market Keep PC Shipments On Track (TechWeb)
TechWeb - Overall growth in shipments is expected to increase by 12.3% this year over last year, Gartner said in its latest report.

One Laptop Per Child Project Gives To Get (NewsFactor)
NewsFactor - The One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) project that seeks to put computers in the hands of children in developing nations has announced a new twist: "Give 1, Get 1."

Laptop vendors to offer Centrino with WiMax next year (InfoWorld)
InfoWorld - Several laptop vendors plan to announce support for an upcoming version of Intel's Centrino platform that uses WiMax wide-area networking technology -- but Hewlett-Packard, Dell, and Apple are not expected to be among them.

Samsung Says Wistron's Laptops Infringe Its Patents
...on Tuesday, asserting that Wistron did in fact infringe on three of Samsung's patents by manufacturing Travelmate 2410 notebook computers.