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Providing high school students with PCs is seen as a first step to preparing them for a technology-literate future, but in the Philippines many schools cannot afford to provide computing facilities so after a successful deployment of 13,000 Fedora Linux systems from a government grant, plans are underway to roll out another 10,000 based on Ubuntu.

After introducing a US$198 Linux desktop this week, PC vendor Everex said it will bring Linux laptops under US$300 to users next year.

Clustered storage and data management specialist, Isilon Systems, launched in the Australian and New Zealand markets today with the appointment of Michael Burnie as country manager and Paul Rosham as technical director.

Now that the capacities of small form-factor drives have hit hundreds of gigabytes, just about any corporate database can easily fit on a laptop. That affordable capacity gives users the opportunity to work outside the office on projects with large data footprints. But it also can expose your company to liability if a storage device holding classified data falls into the wrong hands.

Lexmark has launched a new managed print service, TotalCare, designed specially for the SMB market. The offering has been made available through a new web portal - www.mylexmark.com.au

Dell will be unable to supply desktop PCs to NSW Government agencies for at least three years under the state's newly announced whole-of-government supplier panel.

Seagate Technologies Monday announced the availability of the first laptop hard drive with native encryption capabilities, which is aimed at protecting data if a machine is lost or stolen.

A local supplier of digital video exploitation systems will develop and integrate video enhancements for General Atomics Aeronautical Systems (GA-ASI), a manufacturer of radar and unmanned aircraft.

Sun Microsystems is making a serious pitch into the whitebox space with a series of AMD-Opteron workstation and server bundles, as well as aggressively priced Star Office and Java Desktop System (JDS) offerings.

In a bid to drive down Internet infrastructure costs and improve download speed, the Queensland University of Technology (QUT) is implementing a solution to provide 700 gigabytes of hard disk storage space across four campuses.

The Multiple Sclerosis Society of Victoria Ltd is a registered charitable organisation with over 3,500 clients, and affiliated societies in every state of Australia. The MS Society provides multiple sclerosis (MS) affected people with life-care services (financial advice, employment services and in-home care); offers support to the family and carers of MS sufferers, advises and trains health professionals, researches to seek a cure, and supplies information to clients about the latest developments.