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Forgotten Viewers

With all this talk about 2nd screen and using tablets to access video services, it struck me that in all the headline discussion the biggest viewer population is being ignored for watching content when out and about. This population are all those who have those old and boring laptops and netbooks . It seems as [...]

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EeePC for the Consultant – Long Term Usage

My trusty EeePC has been going now for six months, and how has it faired. Well, it has proven to be pretty good except in three areas… all of which are not killers for the product. It must be said that I refer to the 701 unit with its 7 inch 800×480 screen, rather than [...]

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IT Services, IT Security, the User and the Future

I have worked in many organisations over the years, and have experienced how they have provided IT services and dealt with the subject of security – basically as many different ways to do it as there are grains of sand on a beach. One thing though is that most are on the same beach – [...]

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XO getting some success

It seems the OLPC project has started to get some success, but it is not clear whether this is due to the use of Windows over the Open Source equivalent. This is the one piece of information missing from the BBC News report. Certainly the use of XP makes the device much broader in interest. [...]

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EeePC – Real World Use

I have now owned and used the EeePC 701 4G for a little over three months. It has been an interesting time, from boom to bust and back to boom on the use curve. Early Days Firstly I got it as a little device to give me a better email and web browsing experience when [...]

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