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  • NSW education: Just six laptops lost

    Fears that laptops issued to students under the Digital Education Revolution would be "sold at the pub" have proved unfounded, with the NSW Department of Education and Training (DET) claiming it has suffered six losses to date.

  • IBM bags $70m NSW wireless deal

    IBM has won the contract to build and supply the NSW Department of Education and Training's wireless network for 463 state schools.

  • NSW DET on netbook hiring spree

    The NSW Department of Education and Training will hire hundreds of extra full-time IT staff to support the 220,000 netbooks to be deployed this year, but the fleet's operating system is yet to be announced.

  • DET picks XP, Lenovo for 200k netbooks

    The NSW Department of Education and Training has picked Microsoft Windows XP and Office software and Lenovo hardware to run on its impending roll-out of 200,000 student netbooks funded through Kevin Rudd's Digital Education Revolution, leaving the Linux alternative out in the cold.

  • NSW DET culls $200m netbook list

    The NSW Department of Education and Training has whittled its shortlist of would-be netbook suppliers for its $200 million state-wide deal down from 21 to just six.

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  • NSW missed Linux opportunity

    By choosing the safe Windows XP choice for student laptops, the NSW Department of Education and training is turning its back on the chance to turn hundreds of thousands of students into armchair developers and handcuffing itself to a rocky Windows 7 upgrade path.

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