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Displaying items by tag: Netbook
Tuesday, 15 September 2009 11:19
New Samsung Netbook to net new users
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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Friday, 11 September 2009 09:20
BenQ floods market with product blitz
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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Thursday, 10 September 2009 10:27
Microsoft Tech-Ed like Vista - death by a thousand cuts - says one attendee
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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Wednesday, 09 September 2009 05:44
Microsoft Tech-Ed Australia kicks off with stickfights and Exchange in the cloud
It’s on, and I’m here. Microsoft Tech-Ed Australia is running from today until Friday 11th September on the sunny Gold Coast of Australia. An incredible 2000+ attendees are roaming about with HP Mini netbooks. Demonstrations have already begun of Exchange 2010, Office 2010 and Visual Studio 2010.
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Thursday, 03 September 2009 17:37
Massive Windows 7 deployment at Microsoft Tech-Ed
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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Education
Wednesday, 26 August 2009 08:52
Australian high schools lead the world in Windows 7 rollout
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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Wednesday, 26 August 2009 08:07
Aussie PC market on the rise thanks to consumers, small business
Statistics released today by Gartner reveal that
the Australian PC market is in decent shape, with a rise in quarterly
shipments from last year due to the economic stimulus program and a
number of intriguing factors.
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Market
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Wednesday, 19 August 2009 05:54
Which netbook OS is right for you?
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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Tuesday, 18 August 2009 14:28
Is your netbook small enough for Windows 7?
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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Friday, 14 August 2009 11:00
Linux, Windows netbook returns similar, says Dell
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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Thursday, 13 August 2009 05:32
Kogan cuts netbook price
Low-price electronics retailer Kogan Technologies claims to have the first sub-$400 10in netbook in Australia.
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Monday, 10 August 2009 10:46
Keep an eye on your own open source cloud environment
Want to live in the cloud but don’t quite trust it? SourceForge's open source project of the month for August may be for you! eyeos is a self-hosted cloud operating environment for business, schools and home built in PHP.
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Thursday, 30 July 2009 09:34
Asus Eee PC T91 Tablet PC - heralding a touch tsunami?
2009 and 2010 looks to be the years that touch screen computing starts
becoming as popular as it is on today’s touch screen smartphones, with
Asus’ new T91 Eee Tablet PC one of the first to arrive before a touch
tsunami arrives thanks to Windows 7 – and that rumoured Apple iTablet/iPad.
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Wednesday, 29 July 2009 06:59
HP expands mini notebook range with 5101
HP is aiming for the professional market with its latest mini notebook, the Mini 5101.
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Monday, 27 July 2009 08:49
Microsoft has hit bottom, set for rebound: analyst
Analyst firm Ovum describes Microsoft's results as "dismal" but suggests the worst might be over for the software giant.
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Monday, 13 July 2009 10:59
HP Mini 110 now available in Australia
Whether you call the HP Mini 110 a notebook, a netbook, or a mobile internet companion, it's now shipping in Australia.
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Thursday, 09 July 2009 12:40
Initial Google Chrome OS partners revealed
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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Open Source
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Monday, 29 June 2009 13:42
The netbook belongs to Linux
Why do Microsoft and vendors like ASUS continue to push the line that Microsoft Windows is the ultimate operating system for the diminutive ultraportable netbook market? The Windows 7 plan for netbooks is fraught with limitation and burdens. It's time to bring back the penguin.
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Tuesday, 23 June 2009 04:40
Like the Windows 7 starter netbook wallpaper? You'd better; there's no changing it.
Microsoft seems bent on making netbook users know they’re running the cheapest version of Windows 7. After relenting on the previous restriction only three apps could run at one time the company now will lock the operating system desktop so the default wallpaper can not be changed.
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Monday, 15 June 2009 12:20
Is Xandros a Linux distro, a marketing machine or a Microsoft stooge?
You may know of Xandros Linux; for many people exposure came through the Eee PC, with this being the distro chosen by Linux-turncoat ASUS. Yet, what is Xandros' stance on open source software? Might Xandros be a thinly-veiled Microsoft tout as Linspire reborn?
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