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The PC is far from dead
Insight Celebrating its 25th anniversary this year, the PC is alive and kicking in the developed world but more needs to be done to ramp up adoption in less-developed nations.
Tags: Personal Computers
Inveneo Computing Station
Reviews The Inveneo Computing Station delivers reasonably good performance for a low-power PC. It's small, but an untidy assembly means it could be more convenient to handle.
Quanta to build the US$100 laptop
News World's largest laptop manufacturer will make the low-cost box championed by Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Tags: Notebooks and tablets, Vendor selection, Product development and design
Andy Grove urges Intel to build car batteries
News Former Intel CEO--now a plug-in vehicle advocate--says the chip giant should make electric car batteries to diversify and jump-start the alternative-energy field.
Tags: Green IT, Battery, Intel Corp., Conference, Plug-in, Manufacturing, Chip, car battery, electric car, U.S. company
MIT chips away at lithium ion barrier
News American university researchers make battery breakthrough, which could mean good news for electric automakers and impatient cell phone users.
Tags: Components, Battery, Chip, car battery, electric vehicle, graduate student, Massachusetts Institute Of Technology, lithium-ion, lithium-ion battery, barrier
Videophones give reporters an edge
News Reporters covering the terrorist attacks use the technology to broadcast from places where satellite camera trucks and ordinary camera crews can't go.
Will anyone pay for the 'smart' power grid?
News Electric grids will have to undergo expensive changes to meet rising demand and address environmental concerns. Just don't tell that to utilities or regulators.
Tags: grid computing
CEOs endorse 'foothold strategy' for electric cars
News The Electrification Coalition of different companies pushes for policies to promote electric vehicles in six to eight regions in the U.S. as a way to build critical mass.
Tags: Green IT, Battery, Electrification Coalition, Nissan Motor Co. Ltd., CEO, U.S., Green IT, Plug-in, electric vehicle, Sales
Electric cars not as green as you think
News Electric cars in Germany could pollute more than gasoline cars, and the grid there could collapse if everyone charges at the same time, a report concludes.
Tags: Green IT, Battery, Study, Plug-in, electric vehicle, electric car, Germany, carbon dioxide, U.S., car
Intel to invest US$1 billion in emerging markets
News The money will be spent to help bring computers, training and Internet connectivity to emerging nations.
Tags: Hardware, Software, Entrepreneurship
OLPC to make XO laptop commercially available
News For a limited time, U.S. buyers will be able to purchase, at US$399, one XO laptop for themselves and one for a child in the developing world.
Tags: Personal Computers, Open source
OLPC laptop goes into mass production
News One Laptop per Child will soon be starting up the production line for its ruggedized machine, which it plans to sell eventually for US$100 per model.
Tags: Notebooks and tablets
Rural India's rough road to computer literacy
News The first problem to solve in bringing computing to the world's poor involves delivering the electricity.
Tags: Personal Computers
