Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
The OLPC XO (formerly known as $100 Laptop, [2] Children's Machine, [3] 2B1 [4]) is a low cost laptop computer intended to be distributed to children in developing countries around the world, [5] to provide them with access to knowledge, and opportunities to "explore, experiment and express themselves" (constructionist learning). [6]
The vast majority of laptops on the market are manufactured by a small handful of Taiwan-based original design manufacturers (ODM), although their production bases are located mostly in mainland China. Quanta Computer pioneered the contract manufacturing of laptops in 1988. By 1990, Taiwanese companies manufactured 11% of the world's laptops.
The Ministry announced in July 2008 that the cost of their proposed "$10 laptop" would in fact be $100 by the time the laptop became available. [108] In 2010, a related $35 Sakshat Tablet was unveiled in India, released the next year as the "Aakash". [109] [110] In 2011, each Aakash sold for approximately $44 by an Indian company, DataWind.
Compaq Armada laptop from the late 1990s Apple MacBook Air, an "ultraportable" laptop weighing under 3.0 lb (1.36 kg) A Lenovo IdeaPad laptop Lenovo's ThinkPad business laptop, originally an IBM product Asus Transformer Pad, a hybrid tablet, powered by Android OS Microsoft Surface Pro 3, 2-in-1 detachable Alienware gaming laptop with backlit ...
All the Trucial States except Abu Dhabi adopted the Qatar and Dubai riyal, which was equal to the Gulf rupee prior to the devaluation. These emirates briefly adopted the Saudi riyal during the transition from the Gulf rupee to the Qatar and Dubai riyal. Abu Dhabi used the Bahraini dinar, at a rate of 10 Gulf rupees = 1 dinar. In 1973, the UAE ...
The emergence of Dubai's lively real estate market was briefly checked by the global financial crisis of 2007–8, when Dubai was bailed out by Abu Dhabi. [31] The recovery from the overheated market led to tighter regulation and oversight and a more realistic market for real estate throughout the UAE with many 'on hold' projects restarting.
Dubai Metro has a total length of 89.6 kilometres (56 mi) and 55 stations, 35 on the Red Line and 15 on the Green Line. [5] From 2009 to 2016, Dubai Metro was the world's longest driverless metro network with a route length of 75 kilometres (47 mi), as recognized by Guinness World Records in 2012. [6]
The Embassy of the Philippines in the UAE asked laid-off Filipinos to register, because of the possibility of job openings in nearby Qatar. [7] However, the decline could also be attributed to new visa and passport requirements that the government of the UAE instituted midway through 2008, [ 12 ] [ 13 ] affecting up to 20,000 Filipinos. [ 14 ]