200,000 netbooks for NSW Education
If anything besides the rise of mobile phones illustrates the ubiquitous, everywhere direction that digital technology is taking, its the recent development of netbooks - small but generally-capable laptops that sell for between $300-600. The NSW department of Education obviously has detected this trend, and has announced a tender process for the purchase of 200,000 such devices. Even better, rather than just buy consumer hardware off the shelf, they have specified education-focused conditions - a wonderful but sadly rare example of this happening. You can go here to read more:
> http://www.australianit.news.com.au/story/0,,24934750-5013040,00.html
