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One learning from Beth Santos’ experience in San Tome was the need for teacher training on XO laptop maintenance. As XO’s succumbed to the wear and tear of student usage, teachers and students need to know how to fix the laptops. But how to give them the confidence to repair XO laptops on their own
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XO Laptop Maintenance and Repair Training for Teachers
iPad will be available in Singapore on 23rd July 2010 alongside 8 other countries. Here are the official iPad prices for Singapore: WiFi 16GB: SGD$728 32GB: SGD$878 64GB: SGD$1,028 WiFi + 3G 16GB: SGD$928 32GB: SGD$1,078 64GB: SGD$1,228 Press Release CUPERTINO, California—July 19, 2010—Apple today announced that iPad will be available in Austria, Belgium, Hong Kong, Ireland, Luxembourg, Mexico, Netherlands, New Zealand and Singapore this Friday, July 23
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iPad Available in Singapore on 23rd July 2010
If you thought it’s been a hot summer so far, you’re right. According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), last month was the warmest June ever recorded. It follows three months of record heat in May, April and…
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New Air Conditioning Technologies Coming Online for Data Centers
The UK are to get the latest addition to the Samsung laptop range, with the Q series, this is a range of three different laptops with a 13.3 inch, 14 inch and 15.6 inch display. The difference is in the GPU and they are the Nvidia GeForce GT 330M for the two larger models, while the 13.3 inch machines has the Nvidia GeForce 310M. These are the specs and features of the interesting Samsung Q series laptop: 15.6 inch, 14 inch and 13.3 inch, all three come with 1366 x 768 HD displays with options of Intel Core i3 – i5 (2.13GHz – 2.4GHz) processors, up to 4GB of RAM, and 320 – 500GB hard drives
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Samsung launch Q series in UK
There are plenty of speakers around that connect to the laptop through the USB port, but most of these either stick from the side of the computer or are free standing, both of these options are all right in the office, but for the travelling computer something else is required. Now Logitech have launched the Z205 speaker system, these connect through the USB as the other types do, but it clips to the top of the laptop lid for great sound and ease of use
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Clip on laptop speakers
Is it openSUSE or their educational package that’s the problem? Hardware and installer issues certainly suggest that the problem lies with Novell, not a hugely dedicated group who wants students to have access to the best FOSS available
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openSUSE Education 11.3 – still not there yet
Series of classic notebooks from Micro-Star International was expanded with the new model MSI CR630. This 15.6-inch device is based on AMD Athlon II processor and integrated graphics ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4270. (more…)
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MSI CR630: 15.6-inch notebook based on AMD chips and graphics
Toshiba introduced the Libretto W100 – a laptop running Windows 7. Its main feature is just two touchscreen. Thus, Toshiba Libretto W100 – this mini-notebook and tablet PC, and eBook.
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Toshiba Libretto W100: compact laptop with a touchscreen instead of a keyboard
This download includes Group Policy Administrative Template files and Office Customization Tool files for use with Office 2010 applications. It also includes an Admin folder with an Office Customization Tool, and ADMX, ADML, and ADM versions of Office 2010 system Administrative Template files
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Office 2010 Admin Templates (ADM, ADMX/ADML) and Office Customization Tool
The 10.1″ Aspire® One 531h features the next-generation processor for netbooks, built-in wireless, a high-definition display and moreall packed in a compact chassis that’s not even one-inch high and weighs under 3 lb. What’s more, you’ll get up to 8 hours of battery life with the six-cell.We ship laptops worldwide. Phone orders are welcome, at 888-728-9902 or 954-941-1417 Acer Aspire One AO531H-
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Acer Aspire One AO531H-1440-Black mini notebook, netbook. review
Already making a statement with its ATI-based Ares graphics card — a $1,200 beast that yokes together a pair of Radeon HD 5870 GPUs in a single board — Asus is now moving on to an Nvidia version of the beast. Based around the new Fermi architecture, this Ares would pull together two GeForce GTX 480s,
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Asus preparing Nvidia Fermi version of Ares graphics card monstrosity
Apple held a press conference today where Steve Jobs admitted that the iPhone 4 does have reception issues with it’s hardware – this is in conflict to a previous press statement that said the issue was a software one.
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Did Apple Lie? Steve Jobs admits iPhone 4 hardware has issues with reception
The second annual Tech Camp event in EMEA has come to a close. This year, we gave in excess of 70 journalists and analysts the opportunity to ‘touch and feel’ our products and experience some of our key solution environments – from the Efficient Datacenter to the Connected Classroom
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Tech Camp’s Top Ten
Looks like iPhone 4 will be available in Singapore on Friday, 30th July 2010, alongside with 16 other countries (Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, Finland, Hong Kong, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Norway, New Zealand, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland). Both Black & White iPhone 4 should be available during the launch on 30th July 2010
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iPhone 4 Available in Singapore on 30th July 2010
Dell Services sponsored a Federal Government Panel event yesterday in Washington, D.C. with the Democratic Leadership Council (DLC) on how to create efficiencies in Government. Jim Champy, Chairman Emeritus of Dell Services Consulting and Best-selling Author of Reengineering the Corporation, gave the opening keynote address, sharing case studies of lessons learned in the private sector and resulting best practices within the government
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“Government Reinvention” – Dell Services Sponsors Forum in D.C.
Acer’s all-new ultra-lightweight, ultraportable netbooks were designed to bring you the ultimate in mobile freedom. Combining all the simplicity, quality and ease of use you expect from Acer with everything you need to stay connected, chat and manage your life on the road, these Netbooks are set to change our expectations of simplicity on the move.We ship laptops worldwide.
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Acer Aspire One AOA150-1987 3G netbook review
Alienware and its PR people have put together some video clips featuring messieurs Ampzz McDonald and Prawny Beaumont talking about the pros and cons of PCs versus gaming consoles, which may or may not interest you. As it happens, I had an Xbox 360 Elite here for a while and can appreciate the slick user experience. The Xbox 360 just works, is quiet, doesn’t look too ugly and anyone can use it.
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Is PC gaming dead then?
While I put the finishing touches on some of the more in-depth articles about the status quo of the OLPC efforts here in Uruguay I thought I’d publish some impressions from an exhibition called eXpO fotos which I visited on Thursday. The cool thing is that all of the photos were taken by pupils from four different schools here in Montevideo
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eXpO fotos: an exhibition based on photos taken with XOs
NYC announced today that it would be rolling out ePals SchoolMail (powered by Microsoft’s Live@Edu educational communications platform) to all 2 million students, parents, and teachers in the district. Wow.
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NYC ePals/Live@Edu deployment a template for education in the cloud
Folks in the marketing business must have a pretty hard time here in the 21st century. While it’s become easier for companies to reach a virtually unlimited number of people thanks to television and the Internet, it has become just as easy for consumers to avoid advertisements. The Internet may be saturated in advertising, but that makes it all the harder for one particular marketing campaign to stand out above the others.