OLPC found Nicholas Negroponte has hinted a dual boot XO laptop could soon be on the way.
Internet advocacy group InternetNZ and the NZ Consumers' Institute have both come out swinging over the New Zealand Bankers Association's (NZBA) decision to allow victims of Internet banking fraud to be potentially held liable for losses.
The choice of operating system for a personal digital assisant (PDA) is effectively down to two— Palm OS or Pocket PC—but the variety of choices for the handheld itself is very impressive. We test three of the best, and see what’s coming up soon.
The next version of the Palm operating system for handhelds will be available to licensees at the end of the year, according to a PalmSource executive.
Commentary: Windows-based PCs are too hard to use. The cure: Microsoft should let its programmers start over with a clean slate.
Banks obviously have an interest in making consumers feel safe. They are there to protect the customers' money. They want customers to use their online services, too, because the channel offers a lower cost per transaction than a branch. But giving away free security software to make customers feel safe is probably doing more harm than good.
Software vendor CA recently took me for a tour around their AV research centre in Melbourne, where I got to visit their "live virus" room, which was the only place in the building I saw a Mac.
Apple customers must cringe when Microsoft starts talking about Windows Vista -- after all many of the same "new" features have been available on Mac OS X for about five years.
The only people who won't eventually move to Windows Vista are the Linux and Mac enthusiasts.
Windows Defender for Vista has failed miserably when it comes to protecting users of Microsoft's latest operating system from a very basic attack.
The choice of operating system for a personal digital assisant (PDA) is effectively down to two— Palm OS or Pocket PC—but the variety of choices for the handheld itself is very impressive. We test three of the best, and see what’s coming up soon.
Web services, wireless and PC platforms, TechRepublic takes a punt on 2003's most influential technologies.
Sun Microsystems CEO Scott McNealy has reiterated his company's plans to sell desktop PCs running Linux, and said the company is focusing on supplying "good enough" computing.
Is Apple Computer (a) the top design shop in the computer industry; (b) the manufacturer of the best PC on the market; or (c) destined to forever remain a prisoner of its own success?
If you listen to Intel, the last hold-outs against the x86 instruction set are about to fall with super-powered Nehalem swarms mopping up the high end of massed Power PC supercomputers, and sneaky little Atoms nibbling away at the ARM embedded market.
The next version of the Palm OS, destined for high-end gadgets, is designed to fend off increasingly tough competition from Symbian and Microsoft.
The choice of operating system for a personal digital assisant (PDA) is effectively down to two— Palm OS or Pocket PC—but the variety of choices for the handheld itself is very impressive. We test three of the best, and see what’s coming up soon.
The next version of the Palm operating system for handhelds will be available to licensees at the end of the year, according to a PalmSource executive.
Commentary: Windows-based PCs are too hard to use. The cure: Microsoft should let its programmers start over with a clean slate.
Apple Computer has a new weapon in its campaign to woo PC users: a US$59 piece of software that makes the switch to Macintosh easier.
Microsoft slams Google on privacy
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