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NSW high school laptops put to use for games and MSN Messenger
Written By: David M Williams
Section: Information technology news

Category: Education and Training

2009-11-01 02:12:48
Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd came to power on top of a raft of election promises, one of which included laptops for high school students. While the deployment was not without controversy thousands upon thousands have now been distributed in NSW. Yet, forum postings reveal students are using them for game playing and online chat right in front of oblivious teachers.


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Lenovo hopes to score in Windows 7 market
Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Information technology news

Category: Vendors

2009-10-21 19:17:02
Lenovo's hoping to cash in on interest in Windows 7 with a range of desktops and notebooks - including a pair of new ThinkPads - that ship with the new operating system.


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PC sales growing again - Apple beats the industry
Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Information technology news

Category: Market News

2009-10-15 17:55:42
Industry analysts are predicting Apple is about report higher quarterly sales than previously expected, usefully beating the industry average. But at least the rest of the industry is growing again.


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Linux Foundation bid to lure members
Written By: Sam Varghese
Section: Open Sauce

Category: Linux Blog

2009-10-13 20:37:48
The Linux Foundation will offer discounts from HP, Dell and Lenovo plus a @linux.com email address in a bid to lure individuals to become members.
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Parents cross their fingers that schools get IT right
Written By: Beverley Head
Section: Information technology news

Category: Education and Training

2009-10-10 23:59:18

A review of State and Territory approaches to the investment of $2.1 billion allocated under the National Secondary School Computer Fund is not scheduled to take place before 2011, leaving students and parents to keep their fingers crossed that their Education Departments have got IT right.


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NSW dodges schools sustainability issue
Written By: Beverley Head
Section: Information technology news

Category: Education and Training

2009-10-06 17:50:27

The NSW Department of Education and Training has flick-passed questions regarding the sustainability of its approach to the Digital Education Revolution which will see it gift notebook computers to each year of State High School students as they graduate from Year 12.


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Lenovo adds multitouch to ThinkPads
Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Information technology news

Category: Hardware

2009-09-15 00:21:01
Lenovo has boosted the specs of two members of its ThinkPad range to include multitouch screens. One is a tablet, the other is a regular notebook model.


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Australian high schools lead the world in Windows 7 rollout
Written By: David M Williams
Section: Information technology news

Category: Education and Training

2009-08-25 22:52:27
Today the New South Wales (NSW) Department of Education (DET) has commenced its rollout of 220,000 netbooks to senior secondary school students and teachers. The netbooks have been preloaded with the release Windows 7 code which is not yet available to the general public.


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Lenovo reports small rise in PC sales
Written By: Sam Varghese
Section: Technology feature

Category: Virtualisation

2009-08-05 22:32:39
PC maker Lenovo has reported somewhat encouraging sales figures for the first quarter in an environment where any increase in sales would be gratefully received.
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Initial Google Chrome OS partners revealed
Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Information technology news

Category: Open Source

2009-07-09 02:40:05
Google has revealed a partial list of hardware and software companies that it is working with to support Google Chrome OS.


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NSW DET begin hiring for high school laptop rollout
Written By: David M Williams
Section: Information technology news

Category: E-Government

2009-06-14 18:57:22
The New South Wales Department of Education and Training (DET) has advertised for several hundred Technology Support Officers ahead of the deployment of hundreds of thousands of laptops to secondary school students later this year.


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IBM snares $70 million schools wireless contract
Written By: Peter Dinham
Section: Technology feature

Category: Server

2009-04-25 22:35:07
Following on the heels of Microsoft, Lenovo and Adobe, the services arm of IBM is the latest company to benefit from the Rudd Government backed NSW schools technology give-away, pocketing a $70 million wireless networking contract.


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Asia Pacific PC market sales slump along with the economy
Written By: Peter Dinham
Section: Technology feature

Category: Server

2009-04-21 05:58:19

The global recession has brought a slump in PC sales throughout the Asia Pacific market, with the exception of portable PCs.


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Adobe grabs its share of Rudd schools laptop largesse
Written By: Peter Dinham
Section: Technology feature

Category: Server

2009-04-21 00:18:38

Adobe is set to grab $20 million of revenue from the New South Wales Government’s schools’ laptop program.


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HP out front in PC market, consumer shipments ahead of expectations
Written By: Peter Dinham
Section: Technology feature

Category: Server

2009-04-16 08:40:37

Stories abound day in day out on the damage the global economic crisis is doing to all industries and many businesses, but there’s a new report just out revealing that PC demand has remained relatively resilient in the face of this downturn compared to the last.


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NSW Government not giving away Linux vs Microsoft details
Written By: David M Williams
Section: Technology feature

Category: Server

2009-04-16 07:54:25
The Government has been far from forthcoming when it comes to revealing any details behind the New South Wales (NSW) laptop tender choices. There are unanswered questions from Linux buffs, taxpayers, students and parents, and transparent Government advocates alike.


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Enquiring minds want to know - why no Linux for NSW high school laptops?
Written By: David M Williams
Section: The Linux distillery

Category: The Linux user and switcher blog

2009-04-05 06:17:10
It comes as both a surprise and not a surprise that the New South Wales (NSW) state government chose a "safe bet" of Lenovo and Microsoft to supply many thousands of taxpayer-funded laptops to secondary school students. Was Linux ever on the short list?


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NSW schools netbooks program to present a $600 million bill for taxpayers
Written By: Stan Beer
Section: Beerfiles

Category: IT blog

2009-04-02 04:40:07
While people have been scratching their heads over the cost of the NSW Government schools laptops program, over the next three years Lenovo, Microsoft and Adobe will rake in $600 million. And the big losers out of this first world version of a one laptop per student program will be taxpayers and the wider IT industry.


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Microsoft, Lenovo win massive NSW netbooks schools deal
Written By: Stan Beer
Section: Technology feature

Category: Server

2009-03-31 19:49:12
Microsoft and Lenovo have won a massive deal worth hundreds of millions to supply sub-notebooks running Windows XP and Microsoft Office to 200,000 year 9 students in NSW state schools. The three year deal, with an option to renew, will see all year 9 students get the notebooks to keep for the remainder of their school years and beyond.


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Long growth cycle comes to abrupt halt for Asia Pacific server shipments
Written By: Peter Dinham
Section: Technology Industry

Category: Deals & Wheels - Contracts

2009-03-10 07:29:01

After twenty-seven quarters of steady growth there’s now been a damaging decline in server shipments in the Asia Pacific region, down 5.8 percent year-on-year, and with a major impact on revenues across the main five APAC sub regions.


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