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  • 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.

  • News: HP laptop hit by 'bricking' exploit

    A hacker who posted an exploit last week that threatened a large swath of HP's laptops has followed up with new attack code that can 'brick' nearly every HP laptop.

  • News: 40-hour laptop batteries in development

    Battery technology being developed at Stanford University could eventually allow laptops to run for 40 hours between charges.

  • 19 December 2007

  • News: Windows XP SP3 now available

    The first release candidate of Windows XP Service Pack 3 (SP3) will be available from Microsoft's website today, the software giant has announced.

  • News: T-Mobile & 3 partner on UK 3G networks

    T-Mobile and 3 have agreed to combine their 3G access networks in order to boost quality and coverage for end-users, especially in sparsely populated areas of the UK.

  • 18 December 2007

  • News: Laptop demand fuels huge PC growth in Q4

    IDC predicts that worldwide PC shipments will increase by 16.7 percent in the fourth quarter of this year, bolstered by the strong demand for laptops. The growth is good news for manufacturers, who probably still vividly remember slogging through a slow second half of 2006. PC growth was merely 7.9 percent in the fourth quarter of 2006.

  • 17 December 2007

  • News: First HD DVD-RW laptop launched by Toshiba

    Toshiba is to start selling the first laptop to feature a rewritable HD DVD optical disc drive this week.

  • News: Intel's UMPC platform to get solid-state disks

    Intel will embed solid-state storage drives (SSDs) in its upcoming platform for ultramobile PCs, with the Z-P140 PATA SSDs available as an optional module to original equipment manufacturers to embed on motherboards made for the Menlow platform.

  • 14 December 2007

  • News: Office 2007 users surprised by auto update

    Microsoft has pushed the Office 2007 SP1 update to some users automatically, despite the software giant's initial claims that Windows' Automatic Update service would not push the service pack to users for several months.

  • News: Gateway CEO resigns followng Acer acquisition

    Gateway CEO Ed Coleman is to step down next month, clearing the way for Acer's top executive in the Americas to take the helm, the Taiwanese company said today.

  • 13 December 2007

  • News: AMD faces pummelling at analyst meeting

    Amid further delays of AMD's quad-core server chip and plans to write off goodwill from the acquisition of ATI, AMD executives are going to face tough questions when they meet financial analysts in New York today.

  • 12 December 2007

  • News: Dell enters tablet PC market with Latitude XT

    As predicted earlier this week, Dell has entered the tablet PC market, unveiling the 2kg, 12.1in Latitude XT.

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