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  • OLPC's Bitfrost: Privacy disaster, or security haven?

    Faced with a young, tech-inexperienced user base, the One Laptop Per Child foundation set out to build an easy to use security system, Bitfrost but did it create a privacy threat that tracks users' identity instead?

  • CeBIT 2008: What you missed

    See what you missed at CeBIT 2008 in our round-up featuring NICTA, the CSIRO, Google, the OLPC XO, Netgear and a whole lot of technology.

  • Microsoft admits Vista UAC prompts 'need work'

    Scott Charney, head of Microsoft's Trustworthy Computing division, admitted this week that Windows Vista's User Account Control (UAC) prompts are not intuitive and confuse users.

  • CeBIT 2008: All the news

    Catch up on all the latest breaking news from the CeBIT Australia show floor in Sydney.

  • AusCERT 2008: Complete coverage

    All the news and highlights from Australia's largest IT security conference, taking place in the Gold Coast this week.

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  • Webjam 8 Photo Gallery

    If there is a Web 2.0 version of heaven, it must be Webjam. Last night Sydney's Bar Broadway was packed to the nines as 18 presenters got three minutes each on stage at Webjam 8 to show off their hot Web work. We were there to see it all go down.

  • Photos: OLPC XO, Classmate and the Eee PC

    How do the three leading education-oriented ultraportable notebooks stack up? Take our visual tour to find out.

  • Photos: Linux.conf.au 2008

    This year's linux.conf.au conference, held at Melbourne University, was an all out Linux free-for-all. Highlights include images of the new XO Linux laptop and an interview with Linus Torvalds.

  • The right and wrong predictions of 2007

    In 2007 leading industry watchers speculated on the trends affecting the market, and while some proved right, others proved otherwise. Discovers how expert predictions fared on Vista, low-cost laptops and outsourcing.

  • Gates talks about the future before farewell

    For years, Bill Gates has been trumpeting software's ascent from the lowly PC to everything from mobile phones to home entertainment. In this interview before his farewell speech, Gates talks about competitors, the future of DVD, and why all of those seamless connections between digital devices exist only in keynote speeches.

Videos (6)

  • CeBIT 2008: What you missed

    See what you missed at CeBIT 2008 in our round-up featuring NICTA, the CSIRO, Google, the OLPC XO, Netgear and a whole lot of technology.

  • Google Gears launch means offline Gmail: Google Australia engineering director

    Google launched Google Gears at it's Developer Day in Sydney on Thursday. Google Gears is an open source platform that could allow Web applications -- such as Gmail and YouTube -- to be used offline. Google Australia's director of engineering Alan Noble spoke to ZDNet Australia about the development.

  • Is desktop security broken beyond repair?

    At the AusCERT 2007 conference in Queensland last week, keynote speaker Ivan Krstic, who is the director of security architecture for the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) project, told attendees that desktop security was fundamentally broken. We asked several security experts who attended the conference if they agreed and how the problem could be fixed.

  • Facebook CEO announces new platforms to improve sharing

    At an afternoon event in San Francisco on May 24, Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook's CEO and founder, explains the social-networking site's plans to expand services and increase information-sharing. Facebook members will get automated servces ot share everything from sports picks to tunes.

  • OLPC achieves 2km range for 802.11s tests in Australian outback

    The One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) project has tested technology using the 802.11s 'mesh networking' pre-draft in Australia's outback and achieved distances of 2km.

Reviews (1)

  • OLPC XO

    The One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) project is unique as the XO laptop it distributes. While the XO is not commercially available, our review provides an insight into what can be achieved in a laptop designed for children at a very low cost.

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