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- Windows update hits file-sharing networks
- Stay on top of the latest tech news with our free IT News Digest e-newsletter, delivered each weekday. Automatically sign up today! By ...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows XP Service Pack 2, Peer to peer (P2P), network installer, file-sharing network, P2P, Microsoft Corp., Service Pack 2, Nicholas Reville, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows Update, file-sharing
- Technical articles 2004-08-11
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- The Spa at Nicholas Michaels Gets Colorful Makeover With Lexmark C500n
- The Spa at Nicholas Michaels is a full-service salon and day spa that offers its discerning customers an array of unique treatments and products, including some of newest skin care technologies. Printing marketing materials such as brochures, product labels and customer letters had become expensive. At first, the Spa sent...
- Tags: Lexmark International Inc., Spa, Printers, Marketing Research, Hardware, Peripherals, Marketing
- Case studies
- Nicholas Financial Greenlights Managed Private IP
- Nicholas Financial has carved out a niche in the automobile financing industry. The company wanted to reduce downtime with more reliable communications support and allow IT staff to focus on core business. The challenge was to enhance business continuity with effective disaster recovery plan and reduce vulnerability from IT employee...
- Tags: MPLS, Network, Verizon Communications Inc., Private IP, Nicholas Financial, Verizon Business Managed Wide Area Network Services, Networking, Network Technology, Disaster Recovery, Data Management
- Case studies 2006-05-01
- Photos: Easy does it with Asustek's 'Eee PC'
- With "easy" in mind, Asustek and Intel have teamed on a 7-inch, low-cost notebook that could even be a challenge to Nicholas Negroponte's OLPC.
- Tags: AsusTek Computer, notebook, photograph, Intel Corp., PC
- Image galleries 2007-06-07
- OLPC sued by Nigerians for patent infringement
- In an ironic twist of events, OLPC's Nicholas Negroponte has received a letter from Lagos Analysis Corporation LANCOR, a U.S.-based Nigerian-owned company that claims the XO laptop infringed on its multilingual keyboard technology. Excerpt from Marketwire: LANCOR's lawsuit alleges that OLPC purchased two KONYIN Multilingual Keyboard...
- Tags: One Laptop Per Child Project, Keyboards, Hardware, Peripherals, Paul Mah
- Blog posts 2007-11-27
- Intel joins OLPC board
- After their previous war of words with the OLPC foundation, Intel have show a sharp change of approach.Back in May founder of OLPC foundation Nicholas Negroponte said Intel ‘should be ashamed of itself'. Intel had apparently been selling its entry level Classmate laptop to gain a share of the emerging...
- Tags: General, mobile technology
- Blog posts 2007-07-21
- Consultant wins Peer Directory contest
- With the chance to win a free book or CD from TechRepublic's catalog by updating a Peer Directory listing during the first week of September, more than 1,600 TechRepublic members took us up on the offer. From the e-mails we received from members telling us what they had updated, we...
- Tags: E-mail, Paul Baldwin, Peer Directory
- Technical articles 2003-09-26
- Integrating IT With Business Goals Is Only Marginally Easier Than Reaching the Summit of Everest
- The IT industry has been going through a period of 'Soul-searching' over how effective it has been in delivering business advantage. For years, McKinsey and Gartner have been publishing articles that have questioned how well IT is managed. What made this a public debate was an article by Nicholas Carr...
- Tags: Information Technology, Fujitsu Ltd., IT Industry, Carr, Strategy, Management
- White papers
- OLPC: Microsoft to the rescue?
- I'm sure many of you will remember the One Laptop Per Child project OLPC. The project has been through some difficult times. The so called $100 laptop actually costs $188. Nicholas Negroponte could have inadvertently doomed the OLPC project by setting a target price of $100 on the XO laptop. ...
- Tags: Microsoft Corp., Intel Corp., One Laptop Per Child Project, XO, Justin Fielding
- Blog posts 2008-01-17
- New book says IT departments heading for extinction
- Nicholas Carr, author of The Big Switch: Rewiring the World, from Edison to Google, maintains that in 10 to 20 years, the traditional IT department will be a thing of the past. According to Carr, "The idea that every company needs its own IT department is dying." ...
- Tags: Software-as-a-service, Information Technology, Department, Strategy, Management, Toni Bowers
- Blog posts 2008-01-30
- I've heard of windup toys, but windup laptops?
- Hold onto your laps, because this News.com story tops the charts: "The $100 laptop moves closer to reality" (http://techrepublic.com.com/2100-10877_11-5884683.html) According to the story, Nicholas Negroponte, the co-founder of the Media Lab at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology MIT, has detailed specifications for a $100 windup-powered laptop for children in developing...
- Tags: Massachusetts Institute Of Technology, Laptop Computer, Notebooks, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Sonja Thompson
- Blog posts 2005-09-28
- Public can now purchase an XO Laptop, with a catch
- You must have heard about the OLPC, or One Laptop Per Child, project by now. OLPC is an ambitious project to bring computers to children in developing nations, and the resulting machine is slated to start mass production just next month. Not everything is smooth sailing...
- Tags: One Laptop Per Child Project, Paul Mah
- Blog posts 2007-09-24
- $100 laptops to be available to the public
- A new marketing strategy being adopted by the proponents of the One Laptop Per Child OLPC project may result in the XO Laptops being available in developed nations while contributing to their spread in developing nations as well. The laptop, originally targeted with...
- Tags: Strategy, $100 Laptop, Laptop Computer, One Laptop Per Child Project, Notebooks, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Arun Radhakrishnan
- Blog posts 2007-09-27
- Plans to expand to multiple locations, LAN advice needed
- Hey all,Any advice would be greatly appreciated...I'm not trained in anything, being still at school and only 17 but I do a lot of IT stuff for my dad's business. He has recently bought an office previously worked from home and wants me to adminster his network there. Additionally he...
- Tags: Dad, LAN, network, networking, nick_trask13@..., VPN
- Discussion threads 2005-03-28
- ASUS and Intel slaughters OLPC with Eee-ase
- ASUS and Intel have actually created an alternative for Nicholas Negroponte's OLPC One Laptop Per Child called the "Eee PC". The difference here is that the ASUS Eee PC is actually something that looks usable and perhaps even desirable for everyday use as a super cheap UMPC Ultra Mobile PC. The...
- Tags: News, Mobile/Wireless, Intel, Hardware, Fun Stuff, Energy efficiency, Desktop, Consumer electronics
- Blog posts 2007-06-06
- Dell appeals to my hedonistic tendencies
- One of today's IT News stories discusses Dell's new luxury XPS PCs: "For Dell, will luxury PCs boost profits?" (http://techrepublic.com.com/2100-10877_11-5887465.html) While Dell's margin is currently holding up, tech industry author Nicholas Carr claims, "It's pretty clear that Dell needs to go after those high-margin markets if it wants to maintain its profits."...
- Tags: Dell Computer Corp., Monitors & Displays, Hardware, Components, Sonja Thompson
- Blog posts 2005-10-04
- Explorer Destroyer: Biggest new spoof on the Internet?
- Thanks again to TR member twilasue for sending me another URL of a bizarre and hilarious nature. According to the Explorer Destroyer Web site, you can "Switch your users to Firefox and make money." How, you may ask? "Google is paying $1 for each new Firefox user you refer. This is...
- Tags: Mozilla Firefox, Microsoft Internet Explorer, Web Browsers, Internet, Sonja Thompson
- Blog posts 2006-04-25
- SIMposium 2008 announces keynote themes
- SIMposium 08 will be held November 9-12, 2008 in Lake Buena Vista, FL. Produced by SIM and the SIM Central Florida Chapter, it is designed for and by CIOs to enable peer-to-peer exchange on current business issues, to examine industry best practices, and to further develop business alliances. ...
- Tags: SIM Card, Information Technology, Speaker, Leader, SIMposium 2008, Strategy, Flash Memory, Cellular Phones, Management, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Toni Bowers
- Blog posts 2008-06-06
- Geek Trivia: And called them by name(s)
- Editor's note: True to his lazy holiday self, the Trivia Geek has skipped out early to celebrate the silly season and has called forth this time-honored Classic Geek from our archives to cover his tracks. (Again.) He's also taking off December 26, so don't expect a Geek Trivia on that...
- Tags: Jay Garmon
- Blog posts 2007-12-18
- Windows XP comes to the OLPC
- After years of dispute and half-hearted discussions, the OLPC One Laptop Per Child organization have come full circle and will be putting Microsoft's Windows operating system onto its XO laptop. Limited trials will begin next month, with a general release expected as early as September this year. ...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows XP, Mr., Microsoft Corp., Laptop Computer, One Laptop Per Child Project, XO, Microsoft Windows, Notebooks, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Paul Mah
- Blog posts 2008-05-16
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