One laptop project dealt big blow
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Intel withdraws from a project that aimed to put cheap laptops in the hands of children in developing nations.
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A software upgrade caused some 40,000 computers to crash at the UK government&#39;s Department for Work and Pensions last week. The crash of the Windows-based systems took most of the department&#39;s computers offline for five working days.
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Alternative power source for notebook PCs won't be available next year.
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Many second and third year students have been left penniless after the failure of the Student Loan Company's new 300m computer system.
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Blog: Dig enough, and you'll finally get a reality check on the claim of 12-hour battery life from the One Laptop Per Child project.
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If the One Laptop Project keeps its promises, the small green US$100 laptop could very well revolutionize teaching in developing nations. Computerworld Denmark asked Jan Soelberg, an expert from the school of education at the University of Aarhus, to try the computer.
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Intel and the One Laptop Per Child group had a rocky relationship from the start in their short-lived effort to get inexpensive laptops into the hands of the worldâs poorest children.
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How much for a new laptop? That depends. You can pay $800 or so for a hefty "desktop replacement," or $1,500 for a light, sleek portable optimized for road warriors.
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Blog: The software maker has put a halt to an effort by a group of developers that wanted to build an operating system on top of an early test version of the Vista predecessor.
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The world's largest contract laptop maker announces a million orders with the One Laptop Per Child project. In Gadget Lab.
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The car rental company takes a major hit because of problems with IT, including high costs associated with an ERP project.
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Windows beats Linux in total cost of 'ownership.' Hold on, that's not a good thing.
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Greeted with fanfare and kudos when its prototype PC was shown off by Nicholas Negroponte and United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan more than two years ago at the World Symposium on the Information Society in Tunis, the One Laptop Per Child project is now beset by waning orders and competition from commercial vendors that threaten to sideline the nonprofit effort.
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One of the biggest computer failures in Whitehall's history causes chaos at the work and pensions department.
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Intel and the One Laptop Per Child had a rocky relationship from the start in their short-lived effort to get inexpensive laptops into the hands of the worldâs poorest children.
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Some five years after the concept of a so-called "$100 laptop" was proposed, the first devices began rolling off a production line in China this week.
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Thousands of university applications are thought to have been delayed by computer problems.