McDonalds have this week announced that free high-speed wireless internet is to be rolled out around their 1200 or so restaurants. This, they say, takes them to the top of the free internet hotspot providers.

Check out the details at the cunningly titled www.mcdwireless.com

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The one laptop per child (OLPC) project should be gathering momentum in the coming months, and while it is without questions a noble cause - there is a rather big piece of the puzzle missing. The laptops have wifi which will enable the children using them to use the internet and telephony to connect with [...]

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Having just spent the last hour restoring my computer, I have come to the conclusion that a Thinkpad T60 and magiciso are not a great combination . I wanted to use magiciso to create a virtual drive to load an iso I downloaded, without burning a disc. Once I installed it my laptop froze  and [...]

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Lenovo, one of the world’s biggest PC manufacturers, is to start selling laptops to business and consumers with Linux pre-installed on the machines. Linux is a free, open source operating system developed as an alternative to systems such as Microsoft’s Windows.
Novell will provide the Linux software on the laptops, which are due [...]

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The One Laptop Per Child project (www.laptop.org) appears to be gathering momentum, with production under way and orders starting to come in. Nicknamed the $100 laptop - at the moment the actual price will be around $175. The hope is, however, that as orders increase, so economies of scale will kick in and the price [...]

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Dell has recently released a new line of systems targeting the Small Business User called Vostro.
So far from what I can price out on their site I am very impressed with the affordability of the laptops. I have been looking specifically at the Dell Vostro 1400 Notebook and it looks like quite a nice [...]

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