What will a child in the UK make of a laptop designed to help children in the developing world? Rory Cellan-Jones brought an XO home to find out. In late November I returned from Nigeria...
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Best Buy has embraced the holiday cheer a bit early. Not only did they match and beat Walmart's $100 HD DVD deal, but when they ran out of Toshiba HD-A2 HD DVD players they gave...
Panellists at a trade forum criticised the US government for going back on commitments made to the World Trade Organisation (WTO) in regards to internet gaming. The forum believes that the US could be liable...
Palm unveiled a new smart-phone, dubbed the Centro, that will be available next month for about $100 – not only is that the lowest introductory price yet for a Palm handset, it will be...
Leaders of the non-profit One Laptop Per Child that was spun out of Massachusetts Institute of Technology have acknowledged that the devices are now slated to cost $188 when mass production begins this fall. The...
After announcing a $200 price cut for the iPhone, Apple quickly realized that it needs to take care of its annoyed early adopters. Steve Jobs received tons of angry emails from customers and on September...
Two months after the iPhone's launch, Apple has begun selling "Apple Certified Refurbished" 8GB and 4GB iPhones online for $499 and $399, representing a 17% and 21% discount, respectively. Apple offers free shipping on both...
The greatest thing to happen for High Definition has been undoubtedly fierce competition. The HD DVD Promotional Group is launching a new campaign: a $100 instant in-store rebate on some Toshiba HD DVD players. Between...
In sync with the release of the Xbox 360 Elite console, Microsoft announced the availability of a $179 USD 120GB hard drive for the original Xbox 360, which allows users to replace their current 20GB....
17-year-old Mary Masterman, a senior at Westmoore High School in Oklahoma City, won the Intel Science Talent Search and received a $100,000 scholarship for building an inexpensive yet accurate spectrograph that identifies the "fingerprints" of...
The One Laptop Per Child project, which proposes to give every child in the developing world a computer of his own, dazzled fans with the unveiling of its little green "$100 laptop" in November 2005....
The backers of the One Laptop Per Child project plan to release the machine on general sale next year. But customers will have to buy two laptops at once - with the second going to...
The first batch of computers built for the One Laptop Per Child project could reach users by July this year. The scheme is hoping to put low-cost computers into the hands of people...
The first $100 laptop PCs for the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) program will roll off production lines by the end of this year, and mass production will start in the first quarter of 2007,...
Apple and Creative have resolved their legal disputes which started on May 15th of this year when Creative and Apple sued each other claiming patent infringement. According to a joint-press release, Apple will pay Creative...
Nicholas Negroponte showed off the latest prototypes of the fabled $100 PC. It's not longer a $100 PC, however. The ruggedized, two pound Linux desktop (Fedora) system, with mesh networking will sell for about $130...
Users running illegal copies of Windows XP are being offered discounted purchase prices Recently in the DailyTech labs we had a test bed machine that was giving us "this copy of Windows is not genuine"...
The One Laptop per Child project hopes to lower the cost of its laptop for developing nations to $50 per unit by 2010, Nicholas Negroponte said in the opening keynote at the LinuxWorld conference in...
The United Nations Development Programme will back MIT's NicholasNegroponte and his One Laptop per Child program, according to reports. The partnership is critical to helping the initiative which hopes to get $100 hand-cranked laptop...
On the heels of Apple's announcement that it sold 14 million iPods and achieved revenues of $5.7B last quarter, UBS Investment Research on Wednesday raised estimates and increased its target price on the company's shares...
MIT announced today that it has chosen Taiwan's Quanta, the world's largest maker of notebook computers, to produce its ultra-low cost laptop developed by Nicholas Negroponte, the chairman of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Media...
A hand-cranked laptop that will cost roughly $100 is expected to be in the hands of schoolchildren in poorer countries by late 2006. MIT Media Lab Chairman Nicholas Negroponte said at a...
After disassembling the iPod nano, iSuppli discovered something that's bound to make iPod nano owners angry. The entire cost of materials inside the nano adds up to a measly 90.18 and if you add 8...
A recent study by financial analysts at Merrill Lynch Japan suggests that the PlayStation 3 may cost up to $490 dollars to manufacture, with the company predicting that Sony will launch at $399 and take...
The investment firm that manages the private fortune of Dell Inc. founder Michael Dell invested $99.5 million in Red Hat Inc., the world's largest distributor of the Linux computer operating system, according to regulatory filings....
In a rural Cambodian village where the homes lack electricity, the nighttime darkness is pierced by the glow from laptops that children bring from school. The students were equipped with notebook computers...
Microsoft exec Peter Moore boasts of estimated initial sales of the Xbox shooter, with backup from EB Games' CEO. Reuters is reporting that at the Harris Nesbitt Playtime 2004 Investor Conference, held...
What's one of Steve Ballmer's biggest headaches? It's not Linux or security breaches. It's piracy, the Microsoft CEO said Wednesday. "The biggest problem we have right now is that people who should...
Dell wants your old iPod and is willing to pay to get it. On Wednesday, Dell unveiled an offer that grants music customers a $100 rebate on a 15GB Digital Jukebox when...
With rumors rife that Apple Computer will unveil a $100 music player at Macworld Expo next month, analysts are split on the likelihood--and wisdom--of such a move. The widely reported rumors, which...
Heres a belated update to the idiot who stole $9 million from his boss and then paraded it around for all to see (including his ex co-workers it would seem) A former Microsoft...
In a surprising rumor coming out of Gamers.com and the "Q-Man", whom reports rumors for Electronic Gaming Monthly magazine, Nintendo may decide to cut the price of the GameCube system in the U.S. to just...
Thanks to grimman for posting this on the forum. A Korean company is offering $100,000 (£70,000) in a 48-hour hacking competition, to be run this week. Korea Digital Works (KDWorks)...
Ripped from C|Net IBM has agreed to pay San Francisco a $100,000 fine and almost $20,000 in related costs to clean up after the company's "Peace, Love & Linux" ad campaign, in...
While watching TechTV this morning (with a nasty cold I might add! :S), I noticed this story on fake software that was grabbed by authorities on LA after an 18 month investigation. Law...
SETTINGS ANNOUNCED FOR THE $100,000 AGE OF EMPIRES II: THE CONQUERORS INTERNATIONAL TOURNAMENT FINALS Microsoft today announced the official settings for the Age of Empires II: The Conquerors International Tournament Finals. Sixteen finalists...
