EA Donates SimCity to OLPC Laptops (NewsFactor)

EA Donates SimCity to OLPC Laptops (NewsFactor)
NewsFactor - With the launch of a limited-time "Give 1, Get 1" sales effort for the groundbreaking XO computer slated for Monday, Electronic Arts added to the momentum behind the green machine by announcing it is donating the original SimCity game to the One Laptop Per Child project.

The Enterprise Case for Instant-On Laptops (NewsFactor)
NewsFactor - New virtualization platforms for laptops are currently in the works that promise to give notebook users instant-on access to selected applications without having to wait for Windows to boot. Announced last month by San Jose-based startup DeviceVM, Splashtop was first down the chute, followed by Phoenix Technologies' HyperSpace platform, which was unveiled earlier this week.

Espresso Book Machine
Notebook computers are great — but they try to do too many things, the battery life is still too short, and it still is too expensive...

Nigeria favors Linux vendor Mandriva over Microsoft once more (InfoWorld)
InfoWorld - Microsoft may not have beaten French�Linux vendor Mandriva�in a large deal to supply Nigerian elementary schools with laptop computers and software after all.