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Intel will announce details of the next generation of Classmate PCs soon, with new hardware and software that will make the laptops more user-friendly, the company said Wednesday.

Microsoft sees the ultra-low cost PC market as a significant opportunity and plans to pursue it with vigor, according to Kevin Turner, Microsoft's chief operating officer.

Adobe Systems will contribute source code to the Mozilla Foundation as the two organizations aim to establish a standard scripting language that developers can use to create interactive applications for Adobe's Flash Player and Mozilla's Firefox browser.

Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) announced Thursday a PC priced at about US$230 for the Indian market. The PC is part of the "50x15" program of AMD in California, which aims to provide 50 percent of the world's population with affordable Internet access and computing capabilities by the year 2015, the company said.

In connection with this April PC World's digital video feature, LinuxWorld takes a look at the support available for DV-related technologies under Linux. It is possible to take advantage of your DV hardware and perform simple tasks such as video editing with free software but, overall, support for DV under Linux is not as comprehensive as Windows or Mac.