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CNET News - or wrongly--by some people as a bit of an applications wasteland, and for many people who would rather use Apple's computers Sharp, Samsung, et al, can't come out with cheap models for warehouse stores and more expensive ones for electronics stores reed more

MSNBC - Jain first got the idea to build a low-cost computer alternative back in 2000, when he realized Western PCs weren't getting cheap enough fast enough to serve India's needs. He considered buying secondhand computers from abroad, or opening cybercafés reed more

Bennington Banner - The reason why is the same reason why just about everything else we see, from T-shirts and shoes to computers and televisions Since most American consumers have cost as their primary consideration when they go into the grocery store, they want cheap reed more

CNET News - Intel, Via Technologies, Microsoft, Novatium, N Computing and the One Laptop Per Child organization have all come out with products aimed at bringing cheap computers to classrooms in Africa , Asia and Latin America. The debate over which one will win reed more

China Post - Cheap money could bite Asia giants on Tuesday joined environmentalists in a campaign to dramatically cut the amount of electricity wasted by computers. reed more

Australian IT - 40GB of onboard storage to aid streaming, and various fixed and wireless connection options to link to up to five computers. NINTENDO'S cheap but kinaesthetically fun Wii (image 3) console doesn't have the media-serving muscle of the Xbox 360 or reed more

Baseline - At one point, they say it's important to have each file replicated on more than three computers, but they don't say how many saving money, Google's approach is better because "machines fail, and they fail whether you buy expensive machines or cheap reed more

CNET News - Sharp, Samsung, et al, can't come out with cheap models for warehouse stores and more expensive ones for electronics stores Noise Ninja noise-reduction filtering software, features to write captions in metadata and support for multithreaded computers. reed more

MSNBC - And even some who use computers don't see the Internet usurping print. "The feel of reading a newspaper is very different One thing they all have in common: they're cheap. Priced at an average of about 2 rupees (5 cents), just about everyone can reed more

Independent Online Edition - Amstrad might once have been a power, with its cheap and cheerful personal computers and £1.25bn stock market valuation, but it is a long time since its glory days thanks to a series of product disasters that came to epitomise the failure of British reed more