A Chat with Ben and Pete - Episode 12

CES, Wikia and more.
This week we chat about:

• Low cost laptops. Has the OLPC project created a new category?
  
  • Everex Cloudbook: http://tinyurl.com/26bfje
  • Lenovo has one for China: http://tinyurl.com/22w8up
  • Hasee Q540X notebook: http://tinyurl.com/2xao9m
  • Intel’s Classmate PC: http://tinyurl.com/ystz7h
  
  
• CES. Is it just a bunch of thin displays?
  
  • Loren on the Gizmodo stupidity: http://tinyurl.com/2h9tvb
  • CEA bans Gizmodo staffer: http://tinyurl.com/2xg5xc
  • Multitouch trackpad: http://tinyurl.com/yrxrpj
  • Gibson’s self tuning guitar: http://tinyurl.com/2xub9f
  • Mitsubishi’s Laser TV: http://tinyurl.com/256np6
• Xubuntu on the EeePC
  
  • eeexubuntu: http://tinyurl.com/ywpnry
  
  
• Wikia, Jimmy Wales’ Google killer?
  
  • Wikia search engine: http://tinyurl.com/yp2fss
  • Arrington calls is a complete letdown: http://tinyurl.com/yw4zko
  • Why Wikia will change search: http://tinyurl.com/37he7j
  • A nice frontend to the MacOS firewall called WaterRoof
    
    • Check out WaterRoof: http://tinyurl.com/2mxl39
  • Parallels Server in beta and runs virtualised Leopard on Apple hardware
    
    • Report from the Unofficial Apple Weblog: http://tinyurl.com/2vm6cq
  • Mac file transfer application Interarchy hits version 9
    
    • Check out Interarchy version 9: http://tinyurl.com/2y8dt5
  • Sun to reduce data centres to zero by 2015
    
    • Brian Cinque: http://tinyurl.com/3yoyzk
  
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