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Wednesday, 04 March 2009 |
By Sebastian Marders
 In the year 2005, Nicholas Negroponte had a vision: To educate people living in third world countries who had no access to computers by introducing an affordable model that would cost only one hundred dollars each. He wanted to bridge the gap in terms of education and computer literacy between developed countries and those in the less developed countries through this initiative. The program was called One Laptop per Child (OLPC) and the computer built for this purpose was a mini notebook named OLPC XO.
Computer maker Asus was the first company to realize the huge potential sales of cheap laptops like that of the OLPC program. A cheap laptop that people could carry around easily was their primary goal. They started the mini notebook / subnotebook / netbook phenomenon with the introduction of their first model along these lines.
The Asus Eee PC 700 series debuted in the fall of 2007 with a retail price of around two hundred forty five dollars. It had simple specifications: a two gig hard drive, ram of 256 MB and |
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Tuesday, 03 March 2009 |
By Musa Aykac
 Computer games are becoming more and more advanced and are a massive part of most people's lives. The younger generation are absolutely obsessed with the gaming world and developments in next generation consoles have made playing computer games just that little bit more special bringing the games to life.
A Decade (or more) ago computer games were not very interactive, you really didn't have any entailing story lines as the systems just could not cope with such demands. But now we have the likes of the PlayStation 3, Wii and X Box 360 which deliver awesome power to the system giving us a more surreal experience.
With the current power that these consoles are delivering games have to be made to match specification, so every week a Top format chart gets compiled showing the most popular games on all consoles. So let us take a look at some of the current titles that are dominating the gaming industry
1. (-) Street Fighter IV (Capcom)
2. (1) Wii Fit (Nintendo)
3. (-) Warhammer 40,000: Dawn Of War II (THQ)
4. (13) Ben 10: |
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