There are a million children living in homes without access to a computer, says Mr Knight, who intends to negotiate with providers.
Finally, Apple announced a forthcoming device called iTV, available next year, that among other things, will be able to transmit video from a computer to a living room television screen.
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While it is likely that getting such a computer to function inside a living cell remains some way off, the remarkably rapid progress of biological computers in controlled lab conditions means that that distant day looks to be getting closer.
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"If there are a lot of people with a lot of computer skills but they do not have many chances to use those skills to make a living then they will start to find alternative uses for those skills, " he told the BBC News website.
After running a computer distribution business, he spent ten years living in the vacation home of an employer who visited about once a month.
We wonder as well, with our tongues halfway in our cheeks, whether seventeen-year-olds will want to spend four years, or three, or even two living with mom and dad and staring at a computer screen.
Ms. Sayeg gets most of her design work done on her MacBook computer while lounging on a black leather couch in her living room.
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Being a writer who makes his living off the writing of words which appear on computer screens, I would kind of like to see words stay for a while.
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Not since eBay opened its doors have so many been able to sit at their computer screens and make some money, or even make a whole living.
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According to the E-Learning Foundation this translates to a total of 750, 000 school age children living in households with no internet, and some 650, 000 without a computer.
Technical skills that come from pursuing, say, a computer science or engineering degree certainly insure grads a good salary and standard of living.
Venables was living in Cheshire under a new identity when a probation officer found indecent images of children on his computer in early 2010.
More than anything, what Constance wished was that she would open her computer and it would sparkle like a treasure chest, perched here on the windowsill of the living room.
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