Chinese computer company Lenovo has won a contract to provide 200,000 laptops for NSW secondary school students.
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Lenovo wins contracts for school laptops (Sunshine Coast Daily)
THE NSW Department of Education and Training has dished out the first contracts for its $386 million computers-in-schools program.
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NSW Govt awards contracts for school laptops (Australian IT)
Californians will start feeling the pain of the recently negotiated state budget fix on Wednesday, when a 1-percent increase in the state sales tax will force consumers to pay more for goods such as cars, furniture, laptops and toys.
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California sales tax rises to almost 9 percent (AP via Yahoo! News)
Police stress locking your car, placing items out of plain sight.
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Thieves in Shepherdsville are taking purses, GPS units, laptops, other items from cars (FOX 41 Louisville)
A laptop remote-kill switch has long been a fantasy of those paranoid about theft and service providers alike. And now, with the latest wave of subsidized notebooks coming out of wireless carriers, said switches are coming in the form of a new mobile broadband card from Ericsson. The card, designed to work on HSPA/GPRS/EDGE networks, is slated for release in June, and carries with it a number of ...
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Ericsson to enable wireless kill switch for laptops (Ars Technica)
If wireless bill goes unpaid, a new modem signal will disable computer.
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'Kill Pill' Could Shut Down Future Laptops (ABC News)
PORTLAND, Maine — It turns out that those laptops for school districts in Maine come with a price tag after all. Some school districts have complained that they'll have to hire additional staff to handle the program, and those costs won't be covered by the state.
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Laptops aren't really "free": Schools complain they'll need to hire additional staff to cover state program (The Lewiston Sun Journal)
As wireless carriers begin to subsidize computers that come with wireless Internet access, they're faced with a quandary: What do they do if the buyer stops paying his bills?
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Unpaid bills? Good luck starting future laptops (MSNBC)
It turns out that those laptops for school districts in Maine come with a price tag after all. Some school districts have complained that they'll have to hire additional staff to handle the program, and those costs won't be covered by the state.
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Maine schools: Laptops aren't really 'free' (Boston Globe)
As wireless carriers begin to subsidize computers that come with wireless Internet access, they're faced with a quandary: What do they do if the buyer stops paying his bills?
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Unpaid bills? Good luck starting future laptops (Boston Globe)
