The ‘$100′ laptop has now increased to $175. As well, it is rumoured to run the new $3 Windows XP pack; which was announced last week. The ‘$100′ laptop was to run it’s own open-source software.
Jimmy Wales, the owner of Wikimedia Foundation, will appear in the next show in ABC’s The Chaser’s War on Everything. This is from TechCrunch. TechCrunch also have the questions… Spoiler Alert!!!
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MySpace, owned by News Corp., has launched a new partnership with the Inspire Foundation after the suicide of two Victorian girls after leaving a message in their MySpace blog.
Please Note: This story comes from Australian IT, a site from News Corp.
We finally got a receive a response. That was fast, I don’t know how they found this out? I always taught that blog is not going to be read by those higher class sites. Did they did a vanity search? Anyway, Here it is… Read More >
ScoreRight Services and pointZERO networks [the owners of tech.geek] are sorry for the recent downtime that affected the entire network
Sorry for the inconvenience…
UPDATE [30/4/07]: We got a response…
Showcasing the ‘highest qualities’ of work… yeah right. 9rules is a network but more restrictive. So restrictive that their last round of sites to go through reached up 1,100 sites. It’s not really a community if it’s so restrictive. So how do many people want to join this list of ‘A List’ websites. Terence Huynh explains.
Apple, again, has said that some of their notebook batteries are at risk from bursting into fire performance problems. There is a problem with the batteries with MacBook and MacBook Pros that were sold in Feb. 2006 - April 2007. Problems were that it would not charge the battery…
You can find more information at http://www.apple.com/support/macbook_macbookpro/batteryupdate/
If you remember my rant about Joost, I finally got Joost… Haven’t received any invites yet… so I’ll be patient.
The ABC [Australian Broadcasting Corporation] has stirred up the Friends of the ABC, as they have condemned a plan to advertise online.
The ABC currently cannot advertise in Television or Radio; put a loophole has emerged under the law as Internet advertising had not existed.
The plans included advertising in external sites, like their Countdown site. This plan was in response in a lack of Government funding. SBS, the other government owned channel, is allowed to carry advertisements in TV and online.
The Folding@Home project, which Sony signed up in March, has proven its self as it compiled a year’s worth of data in one month. More than 250,000 users have signed up. Folding@Home uses the idle PS3 to simulate how proteins assume roles in living tissues. At average, they have managed to reach a top speed of 400 teraflops; at its busiest, it can reach 700 teraflops. Comparing it to the no.1 supercomputer, BlueGene L has a top speed of 280.6 teraflops.
