GeekNomad

It´s not every day that Portugal appears on Tech News:

"Intel has scored a massive low-cost laptop deal with Portugal's government to provide primary school students with 500,000 computers based on the company's Classmate PC notebook design.

Chipzilla plans to deliver the half million machines — which will be manufactured under license in northern Portugal — in the upcoming school year."
[Via The Register]

"An impressive deal... until they tell you they are going to make them in Portugal. I smell euro-politics everywhere here. Well played, Senhor Intel."


[Via Gizmodo]

Firewire has come a long way. From the initial development by Apple in the late 1980s, to the technology’s completion in 1995 and surge in popularity in the early 2000s, the technology has become a serial bus interface common in Sony and Apple computers as well as a range of consumer electronics devices such as video cameras.

With the new faster speeds, available starting in October, IEEE 1394 will remain competitive with the upcoming USB 3.0. Looks like that controversial 2010 launch of USB 3.0 just got upstaged a little, huh?
[Via TGDaily]