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Everex delivers $198 Google-friendly PC

Everex has teamed up with open source players to create a $198 PC sans display. The Everex Green gPC TC2502 runs a Linux OS and is loaded with or has links to free applications, including Gmail, Google Docs & Spreadsheets, Google Calendar, Google Product Search, Google Blogger, Google YouTube,...

Tags: Google Inc., Everex, Everex Green gPC TC2502, gPC, Open Source, Tools & Techniques, Desktops, Management, Hardware, Dan Farber

Blog posts 2007-10-31

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$350 barebones Vista/7 PC

$350 barebones Vista/7 PCDidn't you forget somethingWhere is the case?RE: $350 barebones Vista/7 PCAdrian: Read what you write:"Prices of PC components are falling weekly, and what $350 will buy you a lot more horsepower today that it would a few months ago."Which variant of English is this? And if so,...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), DVD, Vista/7 PC

Discussion threads 2008-11-11

Apple hints at lower prices as iPod, notebook refresh on tap

Apple hints at lower prices as iPod, notebook refresh on tapWinner if they don't sacrifice qualityThis move would be a winner as long as Apple doesn't sacrifice quality. If they lower prices by making lower quality products, game over. If they just shave off price overhead, that's great. If they...

Tags: Notebooks, Desktops, Apple Inc., Apple Macintosh, Apple iPod, notebook

Discussion threads 2008-07-22

iSOFT, Solutions Can Be Extended, Integrated and Adapted in Every Healthcare Environment

Nuestra Senora de Fatima Hospital has 217 beds and 340 professionals including healthcare and non-healthcare staff. The centre specializes in cardiovascular surgery, physiotherapy, emergency medicine, internal medicine, radiology and orthopaedics. In 2006, Nuestra Senora de Fatima Hospital embarked on a second phase to implement an electronic health record, again in...

Tags: Health Care, iSoft, E-health, Healthcare, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Business Structures, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Finance

Case studies 2008-06-09

Why the Wal-Mart "snub" should be a big deal for gOS

Why the Wal-Mart "snub" should be a big deal for gOSgood ideabut my guess is, they will buy option 3 or 4.The problem is, most people who shop at Wal-Mart for a PC are looking to buy something they are familiar with. I don't think you could convince them...

Tags: Desktops, Operating systems, OPEN SOURCE, PC Market, Wal-Mart Stores Inc., PC, Linux, operating system

Discussion threads 2008-03-12

Wal-Mart ends Linux trials: "This really wasn't what our customers were looking for"

Wal-Mart ends Linux trials: "This really wasn't what our customers were looking for"Not true[i]At the risk of sounding stereotypically snobbish, I think it says more about the WalMart demographic than a computer with Linux pre-installed.[/i]One of the common claims by the Linux crowd here is that Linux is now so...

Tags: UNIX, OPEN SOURCE, Operating systems, Linux, Wal-Mart Stores Inc., PC, computer

Discussion threads 2008-03-11

Wal-Mart ends Linux trials: "This really wasn't what our customers were looking for"

The Wal-Mart chain has now officially ended sales of the Green gPC Linux systems in its stores. "This really wasn't what our customers were looking for," said Wal-Mart Stores Inc. spokeswoman Melissa O'Brien. That pretty much says it all really. A $200 PC with pretty much everything you...

Tags: Wal-Mart Stores Inc., PC, Linux, UNIX, Operating Systems, Open Source, Desktops, Software, Hardware, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes

Blog posts 2008-03-11

(Photos: Three low-cost Linux PCs)

(Photos: Three low-cost Linux PCs)Ubuntu on newer computers!Ubuntu is G-R-E-A-T..............( It does not Like windows )It reads most if not all of the programs of windows.And the best thing yet is UBUNTU is Free! Not like the XP I have that when things go wrong you have to call...

Tags: OPEN SOURCE, UNIX, Operating systems, Desktops, Dell Computer Corp., Linux, low-cost Linux PC, Linux PC, PC, Ubuntu, photograph, computer

Discussion threads 2008-01-25

Everex debuts $399 ultramobile PC

Everex debuts $399 ultramobile PCWindows Vista Version Is AvailableHas 1GB RAM, a 100 GB drive, runs twice as slow as the $399 version but only costs $899.What a bargain!!Format the drive and put Ubuntu on it.That way you can surf more privately and not be such a Google sheeple. I...

Tags: Ultramobile PCs (UMPCs), Desktops, Operating systems, OPEN SOURCE, Everex, PC, ultramobile PC, Linux

Discussion threads 2008-01-09

Everex debuts $399 ultramobile PC

At CES, Everex is launching a $399 ultramobile that will be sold through Walmart.com starting January 25. The low-cost Everex CloudBook uses the open source gOS V2 Rocket operating system and VIA 1.2GHz C7-M ULV processor, same as the $199 Everex gPC. The Cloudbook is designed for...

Tags: Google Inc., PC, Ultramobile PC, Everex, Unit, Cloudbook, gOS, Ultramobile PCs (UMPCs), Engineering, Open Source, Construction, Ethernet, Tablets, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Emerging Technologies, Networking, Dan Farber

Blog posts 2008-01-09

$200 Linux PC selling out is another reason Wal-Mart is good for America

Our own Adrian Kingsley-Hughes writes about the new, Everex’s TC2502 gPC- a $200 Linux-based PC now temporarily out of stock at Wal-Mart. A full 10,000 units were sold. The Everex does the basics-word processing, spreadsheet, email, edit your photos and pictures, even burn...

Tags: Health Insurance, Wal-Mart Stores Inc., PC, Retail Company, Health Care, Linux PC, Wal*Mart, Retail, Benefits, Healthcare, Insurance, Linux, Vertical Industries, Human Resources, Business Operations, Corporate Insurance, Operating Systems, Software, Enterprise Software, Russell Shaw

Blog posts 2007-11-13

Wal-Mart's $200 PC - sold out

About two weeks ago, Wal-Mart began selling $200 Linux-based PC.  The initial run was around 10,000 units.  Now Wal-Mart is sold out.  Has Linux now found a niche? The system sold by Wal-Mart was an Everex's TC2502 gPC and is the first mass-market $200 desktop PC.  The...

Tags: Wal-Mart Stores Inc., PC, TC2502 gPC, Linux, Microsoft Windows, Desktops, Operating Systems, UNIX, Open Source, Software, Hardware, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes

Blog posts 2007-11-13

Why the GOS will fail

Why the GOS will failOligopolies rule, like it or not"It was a policy choice to allow these duopolies to return. New policy choices can restore competition and free the bits."The truth is that it is SO expensive to set up the entire infrastructure that we CAN'T have "loads of competition"....

Tags: Network technology, Broadband Internet, Cable, broadband

Discussion threads 2007-11-05

Why the GOS will fail

The GPC with GOS is really quite amazing. I remember feeling pretty frugal early this decade, when I bought a 733 MHz PC with a 40 Gigabyte hard drive for just $700. Here you've got something twice as fast, with twice the storage, for $200 retail. ...

Tags: Advertisement, Phone, Telephony, Network, Broadband, Fact, Cable, Telecom & Utilities, Network Technology, Networking, Telecommunications, Personal Technology, Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2007-11-05

Can Google and Wal-Mart break the Microsoft desktop monopoly?

Despite the great hype, both here and elsewhere, over Everex' new "Google PC" this may be less than meets the eye. Or it could be more. It may be less because the Everex gPC TC2502 is not much of a computer. It runs a...

Tags: Desktop, Google Inc., Wal-Mart Stores Inc., Everex, Microsoft Corp., OpenOffice, Branding, Desktops, Open Source, Office Suites, Software, Marketing, Hardware, Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2007-11-01

Ready when you are, AC

Pardon me while I kick myself all over the place. I just sat down to mix the latest Gillmor Daily, a 45 minute conversation with Adam Curry looking back and forward at the cusp of the new year. I've been nursing a persistent cold for almost a month, and have...

Tags: Steve Gillmor

Blog posts 2006-01-03

GPC Alarm 1 (Windows)

GPC Alarm is an application designed to alert you when one of your TCP servers is not responding to network requests. Install GPC Alarm in your desktop, create the list of servers you want to be tested, specify how often you want each of them to be checked and close...

Tags: Desktop, Microsoft Windows, GPC Alarm, Tcp/Ip, Servers, Networking, Hardware

Software downloads 2005-12-21

Infectious Diseases - MobiReader Version 2006v2 (Mobile)

Topics include: Travel/ Tropical medicine (evaluation, prevention and treatments), HIV/ AIDS, Parasites (worms, insects, food poisoning...), TB, Leprosy, Lymphadenopathy, Biological/ Chemical Weapons/ Terrorism agents, meningitis/ encephalitis, osteomyelitis, skin infections, fevers, sepsis, antibiotic use, common skin infections, tick bites, animal bites, wounds.........Features: Edited by a highly regarded Infectious Disease specialist. This...

Tags: Fever, Mobile, Pacific Primary Care

Software downloads 2005-10-16

Infectious Diseases -- MobiReader Version 2006v2 (Mobile)

Topics include: Travel/ Tropical medicine (evaluation, prevention and treatments), HIV/ AIDS, Parasites (worms, insects, food poisoning...), TB, Leprosy, Lymphadenopathy, Biological/ Chemical Weapons/ Terrorism agents, meningitis/ encephalitis, osteomyelitis, skin infections, fevers, sepsis, antibiotic use, common skin infections, tick bites, animal bites, wounds.........Features: Edited by a highly regarded Infectious Disease specialist. This...

Tags: Fever, Mobile, HIV Virus, Pacific Primary Care

Software downloads 2005-10-16

Clinical Infectious Diseases - 2008 2007 (Mobile)

Topics include: Travel/ Tropical medicine (evaluation, prevention and treatments), HIV/ AIDS, Parasites (worms, insects, food poisoning...), TB, Leprosy, Lymphadenopathy, Biological/ Chemical Weapons/ Terrorism agents, meningitis/ encephalitis, osteomyelitis, skin infections, fevers, sepsis, antibiotic use, common skin infections, tick bites, animal bites, wounds.........Features: Edited by a highly regarded Infectious Disease specialist. This...

Tags: Fever, Mobile, HIV Virus, Pacific Primary Care

Software downloads 2005-04-16