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One Laptop per Child 'Give One, Get One' scheme coming to Europe

Crave Nicholas Negroponte, founder and chairman of the OLPC project, told our sister site, ZDNet UK, this week that version two of 'Give One, Get One' (G1G1) would enable European users to participate in the scheme.

Tags: laptop, project, laptops, child

14 November 2008, 9:58 > More matches in Crave

£100 iTunes download exposes roaming phone rip-off

News An investigation by CNET.co.uk's sister site ZDNet UK has exposed the massive roaming charges levied by mobile phone operators on users who download data when abroad. One ZDNet UK reader found himself lumped with a bill for £769 for using Orange's...

2 November 2005, 10:03 > More matches in News

Dell's Linux PCs held back from UK

News But Dell has told CNET.co.uk's sister site ZDNet UK that the systems will be only be sold in the US for now. In a statement sent to ZDNet UK, Dell said: "Currently these are only being offered in the US.

4 May 2007, 9:44 > More matches in News

Skype reveals Wi-Fi mobile phones

News Speaking to CNET.co.uk's sister site ZDNet UK on Friday, Skype's UK manager Alistair Shrimpton said the Internet telephony giant was "currently working with all the major hardware companies such as Motorola and Nokia" to develop GSM/Wi-Fi devices...

24 July 2006, 10:06 > More matches in News

Parliament attacked with WMF exploit

News MessageLabs, the email-filtering provider for the UK government, told CNET.co.uk's sister site ZDNet UK that targeted emails were sent to various individuals within government departments in an attempt to take control of their computers.

24 January 2006, 9:05 > More matches in News

Microsoft: Vista does support Turbo Memory

News The spat between the companies arose after Sony revealed to CNET.co.uk's sister site ZDNet.co.uk that it would not include Turbo Memory -- an embedded flash memory module formerly known by its code name Robson -- in this summer's Vaio laptops...

8 June 2007, 10:22 > More matches in News

NTL:Telewest hit by network failure

News A spokeswoman told CNET.co.uk's sister site ZDNet UK that the outage mainly affected customers in Birmingham, Yorkshire, the Northeast and the Northwest. However, one NTL:Telewest user told ZDNet UK of continuing problems around 9am on Tuesday...

10 January 2007, 10:25 > More matches in News

UK networks 'won't charge' for received calls

News All the major UK operators have told CNET.co.uk's sister site ZDNet.co.uk that such a move was unlikely, however. O2's spokesperson told ZDNet.co.uk that "any move to such a system [receiving party pays, or RPP] would need to take place across the...

Tags: customers, charge, party, rates

19 June 2008, 8:51 > More matches in News

Asus Eee Box ready for August release

News The machine is likely to go on sale in the UK in August, an Asus spokesperson told CNET.co.uk's sister site ZDNet.co.uk on Friday. Unlike previous iterations in Asus's Eee range, the Eee Box will not initially be made available in a Linux flavour...

Tags: linux, box, operating system, xp

23 June 2008, 9:09 > More matches in News

Vodafone broadband to cover huge loss?

News In the meantime, Vodafone's New Businesses unit will begin offering fixed-line broadband in the German market, and a spokesperson confirmed to CNET.co.uk's sister site ZDNet UK that such services would be making its way to the UK.

31 May 2006, 9:44 > More matches in News

Mobile operators discourage upgrades to save cash

Crave Some customers are happy with their existing handsets and would rather take an option that allows them to save money, particularly in these credit-crunch days," Jonathan Earle, O2's head of consumer post-pay acquisitions, told our sister site...

Tags: cash, customers, upgrade, customer

27 October 2008, 9:19 > More matches in Crave

UK's 'biggest' city Wi-Fi network goes live

News If you do something for the businesses in the area, it makes sense to include the public sector and general sector as well," Kurt Frary, Open Link project manager for Norfolk County Council, told CNET.co.uk's sister site ZDNet UK on Tuesday.

2 August 2006, 9:49 > More matches in News

Intel drops HSDPA from next-gen Centrino

News But Intel told CNET.co.uk's sister site ZDNet UK on Friday that 3G would not be included in Santa Rosa, at least initially. Intel confirmed to ZDNet UK that it would still release Santa Rosa in the second quarter of this year, and that Santa Rosa...

19 February 2007, 9:02 > More matches in News

Dell's Linux PC launch hits rocky ground

News Adam Griffin, Dell's spokesperson for the Linux launch, told CNET.co.uk's sister site, ZDNet.co.uk, that there were "some early issues" and that there were "gremlins in our online stores". But ZDNet.co.uk's attempts to order the Linux PCs proved...

9 August 2007, 8:52 > More matches in News

Vodafone admits video-calling is a flop

News That is definitely an overestimate," a spokesperson for Vodafone told CNET.co.uk's sister site ZDNet UK. It may be true that in the very small number that [use 3G services], those people will be very interested in mobile TV," Alice Enders, head of...

1 August 2006, 10:09 > More matches in News