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Google's Chrome OS set to debut this week
Written By: David Swan
Section: Information technology news

Category: Software

2009-11-15 19:19:49
Industry leader Google is set to turn the desktop OS war on its head, with several sources tipping that the company's new Chrome OS is about to make its debut later this week.



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Another Mac OS X 10.6.2 developer build: Atom support returns
Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Core Dump

Category: Apple and anything else

2009-11-05 01:25:44
Hackintosh lovers rest easy: the removal of Atom support from Mac OS X 10.6.2 may just have been a temporary glitch. And there's news of more fixes that apply to the rest of us.


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No Mac OS X 10.6.2 for Atom netbooks
Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Core Dump

Category: Apple and anything else

2009-11-02 17:33:33
Rumours are circulating that the forthcoming Mac OS X 10.6.2 update will prevent the use of Apple's operating system on hardware based on Intel's Atom processors.


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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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What the iTablet might cost, and rumors of possible content
Written By: Jake Widman
Section: Information technology news

Category: Mobiles

2009-10-27 17:40:48
A poll by U.S. shopping and reviews site Retrevo has shown that Apple may not be able to get its rumored price for a new tablet computer. Meanwhile, new reports and rumors indicate that Apple may be pursuing e-reader content for the device from American and Australian publishing partners.


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Eeebuntu eeevolves with Debian Linux
Written By: David M Williams
Section: The Linux distillery

Category: The Linux user and switcher blog

2009-10-25 18:55:13
The team behind Eeebuntu, an ASUS Eee netbook-optimised version of Ubuntu Linux, has announced that compatibility issues with Ubuntu 9.10 – Karmic Koala – has led them to abandon Ubuntu and build their work upon Debian Linux from now on.


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Kogan sponsors motor sport series
Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Information technology news

Category: Vendors

2009-10-20 00:32:20
Low-price IT and CE retailer Kogan Technologies is entering the motor sport world by sponsoring the 2009 and 2010 Super X series. Super X is the Australasian supercross championship.


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Ubuntu sucks says Eeebuntu developer
Written By: David M Williams
Section: The Linux distillery

Category: The Linux user and switcher blog

2009-10-15 23:16:28
The popular Ubuntu Linux distribution has received criticism from an unexpected corner and its ASUS Eee netbook users are likely to be left with an unworkable system when Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala hits the Internet later this month.


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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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Intel seeks total domination of mobile market
Written By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Section: Fuzzy Logic

Category: The gadget blog

2009-09-24 09:44:35
Thinking of buying a really fast new laptop computer? Some retailers in the US (and soon around the world) are now offering notebooks that finally sport the mobile version of Intel’s fastest and smartest processor, the Core i7, while the latest developments at Intel’s twice-yearly developer conference are also proving very newsworthy!


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New Samsung Netbook to net new users
Written By: David Swan
Section: Information technology news

Category: Hardware

2009-09-15 01:19:08
Samsung Electronics Australia has partnered with Japanese designer Naoto Fukasawa to bring the very distinctive Samsung N310 to its range of mini notebooks in Australia.


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Telco-driven netbook sales turning PC industry upside down
Written By: Stuart Corner
Section: Telecommunications

Category: ExchangeDaily

2009-09-13 20:40:08
Netbooks, products that did not exist two years ago, are driving the biggest transformation in the PC industry in 15 years, largely because of telcos enthusiastically promoting netbooks with subsidies as they do cellphones, according to research firm Canalys.


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BenQ floods market with product blitz
Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Information technology news

Category: Hardware

2009-09-10 23:20:29
BenQ Australia has announced dozens of new products. The company's regional president spoke to iTWire about the new range and BenQ's plans.


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Microsoft Tech-Ed like Vista - death by a thousand cuts - says one attendee
Written By: David M Williams
Section: Information technology news

Category: Education and Training

2009-09-10 00:27:37

Microsoft Tech-Ed Australia 2009 is underway on the sunny Gold Coast, awash with a sea of HP netbooks given to every paying attendee. Yet not all of the fully sold-out crowd think the gift is so great. One participant is tweeting discontent about budget cuts under the alias teched09sucks.


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Massive Windows 7 deployment at Microsoft Tech-Ed
Written By: David M Williams
Section: Information technology news

Category: Education and Training

2009-09-03 07:37:33
Windows-based systems administrators and software developers will be converging on the Gold Coast of Australia next week for Microsoft’s annual Tech-Ed event. This year the educational content may find the show stolen by an unprecedented massive Windows 7 netbook giveaway to every paid attendee.


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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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ViewSonic enters red-hot netbook market
Written By: Ian Grayson
Section: Information technology news

Category: Hardware

2009-08-24 21:40:55
Hot on the heels of news that phone giant Nokia is to release a netbook PC, monitor specialist ViewSonic has announced it is also entering the category. The company's new VNB101 will hit the shelves next month.

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Which netbook OS is right for you?
Written By: David M Williams
Section: The Linux distillery

Category: The Linux user and switcher blog

2009-08-18 19:54:46
Windows 7 is here, and unlike Windows Vista, it will probably run on your diminutive netbook PC. However, there is an alternative. Here is why you ought to give Linux a shot.


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Is your netbook small enough for Windows 7?
Written By: Davey Winder
Section: Information technology news

Category: Vendors

2009-08-18 04:28:43
Microsoft, and not the manufacturer, will decide what is and is not a netbook with screen size being the main metric. So just how small will you have to go to run Windows 7 Starter Edition?


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Linux, Windows netbook returns similar, says Dell
Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Core Dump

Category: Apple and anything else

2009-08-14 01:00:17
The return rate for Linux-based netbooks is about the same as that of similar hardware running Windows, according to a Dell executive.


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