Wednesday, July 30th, 2008
Intel’s low-cost laptop initiative is set to get a boost Wednesday from Portugal’s government, which is pledging to provide elementary school students with 500,000 computers based on the chipmaker’s Classmate PC design. The announcement brings Intel’s rivalry with the One Laptop Per Child organization into the spotlight once again. In May, the nonprofit OLPC group said its green-and-white XO laptop computers would work with Microsoft’s Windows in addition to a homegrown Linux-based operating system.
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Portugal Rings Up Big Order for Intel’s Classmate PCs
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Tuesday, June 17th, 2008
Months after arresting a man for having child pornography images on a state-issued laptop, prosecutors dropped the charges when a defense-sponsored forensic investigation showed that a poorly configured laptop that had become riddled with malware was to blame. The victim — besides the children in the images — was Michael Fiola, a former investigator with the Massachusetts Department of Industrial Accidents. After he was given a sloppily configured replacement laptop running Windows XP with SP2 in November of 2006, he was fired in early 2007.
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Hellish Ordeal Ends for State Worker Caught in Child Porn Malware Snare
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