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First Ever Objective XO Laptop Usage Research Results

In a public report with limited distribution dated July 10 2009, Inspectors G.Aramburu and Y.Delgado of the Initial and Primary Education Council of the Public Education Administration of Uruguay present what I believe is the first ever published and so far only instance of large-scale objective research of an indicator of XO use in education. Examining impact on XO children See the full report here: Circular 10 Técnica July 10 2009 See the project lineup here: Circular 6 Técnica May 8 2009 This most valuable piece of research regarding the impact of the OLPC concept almost risked to be passed over and forgotten. While at OLPC News we go to considerable effort to bring you up to date information, somehow we missed this, and despite its importance and being almost a year old by now, these documents have not yet been mentioned in any research data list I am aware of

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Tesco VX1 Party Phone review

If you’re planning an epic night out but don’t want to lose your swanky smart phone in a drunken stupor, the VX1 Party Phone may be the answer. It’s ridiculously cheap and it does the job of texting and making calls. And if it disappears into the murky night, it won’t be on your list of regrets in the morning

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Dell Launch The Latitude E4310

The computer maker Dell has launched the latest addition of the Latitude the E4310, the consumer gets a choice of either the 2.4GHz Intel Core i5-520M or 2.53GHz Intel Core i5-540M dual-core processor, the starting price is $1,100, but with options that is going to get a bit larger. Here are the specs and features of the Thin, Light & Sophisticated 13.3″ Laptop: Built thin and light for the executive or frequent traveller, the DellTM  LatitudeTM  E4310 ultraportable laptop combines sleek looks with remarkable durability and advanced wireless connectivity

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Indonesia’s Sri Mulyani Given Top World Bank Role (Update2)

Indonesia’s Finance Minister Sri Mulyani Indrawati, who has been a candidate to head her nation’s central bank, was selected to be a top adviser to World Bank President Robert Zoellick.

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Google Editions e-books launching this summer

WSJ reports Google plan to take on Amazon Google plans to start selling digital books this summer through a new service called Google Editions, a company official said at a book industry panel in New York, according to a Wall Street Journal report.

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Unable to access certain websites

Hello all, O/S Windows 7 Strange problem as I’m unable to access anything on the bbc website as it just gives the classic connection has timed out response when using both Firefox and IE7, tried pinging it and get Request Timed Out. Any help or suggestions would be a big help.

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Asian Stocks Fall on Europe Debt Concerns; Westpac, Cnooc Slump

Asian stocks slumped, extending a global rout, as concern grew that Europe’s government debt crisis will spread beyond Greece and derail the global recovery.

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China Stocks ETF Short Sales Rise to 2-Year High (Update2)

Foreign investors are short selling China’s stocks through a yuan-denominated exchange-traded fund at the highest rate in more than two years, underscoring concern that property curbs will slow the economy.

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Stocks Drop, Euro Trades Below $1.30 on Greece Risk; Oil Falls

Stocks fell, extending the biggest slump in global equities in three months, oil dropped and the euro traded below $1.30 on concern Europe’s debt crisis is spreading. Standard & Poor’s 500 Index futures declined

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Video search still a tough nut to crack

Experts search for techniques to catalogue footage While text-based search services such as Google’s and Microsoft Bing now come pretty close to consistently serving up what users seek, video search services remain inexact at best, said video archiving experts who spoke on a panel at last week’s WWW2010 conference.

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No time to wait for complete shutdown ? Try Instant

It is highly recommended that you always shutdown your computer after saving your work and never push the power button all the time, it messes the operating system and might just get the complete System non working. However there are situations where you just want a shutdown which doesn’t ask you save anything, more  like unattended shutdown.

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The Carry On Laptop Bag

Seasoned travellers will know that the best way to get in and out of the airport when travelling by plane is to take just one bag as hand luggage. this way the traveller is on and off the plane in no time at all and then through the airport security before other travellers have picked their luggage up from the carousel.

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Central Desktop adds simultaneous edits for Office

Users can collaborate on Word, Excel & PowerPoint Central Desktop’s hosted collaboration suite will gain a new component next month designed to let multiple users simultaneously work on the same Microsoft Office documents.

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Logitech Z-5500: brand new control pod doesn’t work – pairing required?

Hi all, recently purchased a brand new control pod for the Z-5500 off these forums , received it last week but it doesn’t give any sound with my Z-5500 system – unit powers up, display works, buttons work and it even responds to the remote I already had, but whatever I try there’s no sound – not from any source, not with the internal test pattern. If I remove it and hook up my old control pod in place it immediately works perfectly fine

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Google Chrome gets 30 percent speed boost

Latest upgrade also incorporates HTML5 features Google’s latest beta version of its Chrome browser packs a performance boost to the Javascript engine that the company describes as “hefty” and adds the ability to apply pre-defined browser preferences in multiple machines through users’ centralised Google accounts.

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Sky router DG834GT: Which wireless access point?

Hi, I have the DG834GT sky router and want to add a wireless access point for my amp to stream music. I bought a Belkin wireless g router thinking I could use it as an access point, but couldn’t get it to work. Therefore my question is what should I have bought?

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Hide windows you dont want to get caught for

More or less every user get conscious when anybody tries to sneak into his or her screen and be it that kind of stuff or not, no body likes to get caught for anything. Wraith is a perfect portable application which allows you to quickly hide windows on your computer that you do not want others to see with one ESC button on your computer. Hide windows In order to select the windows use the sniper icon and point it to window you want

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Intel pushes Moorestown for tablets and phones

New generation of Atom chips launched Intel has set its sights on the burgeoning tablet computing market with its latest Moorestown chips, which the company believes will help break rival Arm’s dominant position in the handheld device market.

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Welcome Yagoo Technology

Established in 2002,Yagoo Technology Co.Ltd is a professional manufacturer specializing in design, manufacture and market of Laptop Batteries, Laptop AC adapters, Digital Camera Batteries, Camcorder Batteries and Digital Camera AC adapters. Our main products are various rechargeable batteries and chargers compatible with brand laptops, including IBM, COMPAQ, HP.

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Adobe accused on software monopoly

FreeHand users threaten to sue Adobe The growing battle between Apple and Adobe and the possibilities of extended lawsuits between the two companies has re-invigorated a 5,000-strong group of graphic designers in their fight against Adobe and its shelving of the popular FreeHand vector illustration program.

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