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• 04 January 2008

• News: CES: HP announces Pavilion tx2000 tablet PC

  Hewlett Packard (HP) yesterday introduced the Pavilion tx2000 tablet PC, a portable laptop targeted at students and professionals. Users can rotate the screen 180 degrees and use a stylus to capture handwriting or surf the internet, according to HP.

• News: CES: HP announces HD multimedia notebook

  Hewlett-Packard (HP) yesterday introduced the HP Pavilion HDX - a multimedia notebook packed with high-definition features, including a screen that allows users to watch full HDTV movies.

• News: Intel won't kill Classmate PC, quits OLPC

  Intel has resigned from the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) project's board of directors. Intel was asked to abandon its Classmate PC program, which was seen as being too similar to the OLPC mission, but refused to do so - according to a source familiar with the situation.

• News: CES: Dell revamps Inspiron laptop, launches crystal display

  Dell yesterday unveiled a crystal LCD monitor and revamped its 15.4in Inspiron laptop.

• 03 January 2008

• News: New Asus laptop has terabyte hard disk

  Asus is to release a laptop featuring 1TB (terabyte) of storage at next week's Consumer Electronics Show (CES).

• News: Hitachi to show first 500GB laptop hard drive

  Hitachi plans to show off a 500GB laptop hard drive at next week's CES show in Las Vegas. The Travelstar 5K500, which is the highest capacity drive yet developed for portable PCs, is due to begin shipping in February and should go some way towards quenching user thirst for storage spac

• News: Crucial launches 32GB, 64GB SSD laptop drives

  Lexar Media has announced plans to release 32GB and 64GB Solid State Drives (SSDs) for laptops in 2.5in form factors in Q1 this year. The drives will be released under the Crucial brand, although pricing has yet to be confirmed.

• News: Lenovo adds IdeaPad consumer laptop line

  Sensing an opportunity in the fast-growing consumer notebook market, Lenovo has launched a new line of consumer laptops with the IdeaPad moniker

• News: OLPC '$100 laptop' group sued for $20m

  The One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) project is being sued for $20m, with the Lagos Analysis Corp accusing the non-profit group of patent infringement.

• 02 January 2008

• News: Spare lithium batteries banned on US flights

  New rules have gone into effect that prohibit air passengers in the US from carrying spare lithium batteries in their checked baggage.

• 01 January 2008

• News: PC Advisor's 10 most popular products of 2007

  A year is a long time in technology, but little hype gets past PC Advisor readers. This year 10 product reviews have attracted more attention than any of the other 1,500 and more you can read online all day, every day.

• 31 December 2007

• News: Top exec leaves OLPC's $100 laptop effort

  One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) chief technology officer Mary Lou Jepsen is quitting the nonprofit group to start a for-profit company to commercialise technology she invented with OLPC.

• 27 December 2007

• News: China targets 3G mobile market in IBM deal

  SMIC, China's largest chip maker, has signed a deal to license a 45-nanometer manufacturing process from IBM.

• News: CES: Panasonic to unveil thinnest Blu-ray drive for laptops

  Panasonic has developed a Blu-ray Disc drive for laptop computers and plans to unveil it at January's Consumer Electronics Show, the company said today.

• 25 December 2007

• News: 2008: the future of PC storage

  IT managers looking to boost storage efficiency next year will embrace online storage services, push de-duplication in the data centre and adopt solid-state disk drives to help fuel hardware consolidation strategies and green initiatives, according to IDC's top 10 storage predictions for 2008.

• News: Video report: 2007's top tech news

  With the release of Windows Vista, Apple's iPhone and a new breed of portable computer, 2007 was a busy year for the technology industry.

• 23 December 2007

• News: Video: 2008's most exciting tech innovations

  Flexible computer screens, electronic newspapers and violin-playing robots are just three of the novel technologies demonstrated by Japanese developers this year.

• 21 December 2007

• News: Tesco to sell Dell PCs from next month

  Dell has sealed a deal with Tesco that will see its desktop PCs and laptops appear in the retail chain’s stores from January 2008.

• News: VIDEO: MIT's bicycle-powered laptop

  Now you can get some excercise while checking your email with this pedal-powered laptop designed and created by students at MIT.

• News: Freezing MacBook keyboards fixed by Apple

  A recent Apple update has fixed keyboard lockups on Leopard-based MacBooks and MacBook Pros, according to users on Apple's support forums.

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