'One Laptop Per Child' group reboots offer

With Give One Get One, shoppers spend about $400 to buy one of OLPC's rugged green-and-white XO laptops and donate a second to a child in a developing country. Cambridge, Mass.-based One Laptop Per Child, a nonprofit, sells the XO machines to ...

Military bans YouTube, launches TroopTube

Delve Chief Executive Alex Castro called TroopTube a "retention tool" aimed at a generation of soldiers who bring laptops to the front lines. "A lot of people are excited in the company (Delve) to be doing something for the people who make sacrifices ...

Al-Qaida's budget slips through the cracks

... Nairobi, Kenya and Dar es Salaam, Tanzania – less than $50,000 on bomb parts, rooms at a seedy downtown hotel, where the bombing was planned, and on an expensive suburban villa where the bomb was put together as well as satellite phones and laptops ...

Digital gold: Turning techno-junk into cash

But Toshiba may be the company that’s connecting most deeply with the financial headaches felt by many Americans, offering cash in return for unused or nonfunctional computer desktops and laptops, video gaming consoles, iPods, cell phones ...

Future laptops could run more than one OS

NEW YORK - Tired of Windows? The next generation of laptops may let you jump from one operating system to another to play movies, surf the Web or read e-mail. Phoenix Technologies, a leading maker of the software that controls the most basic workings ...