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OLPC sees charitable and government orders

The Boston Globe is reporting that OLPC is selling hundreds of thousands of computers, driven both by a large government order from Peru (260,000 machines) as well as two successful charity campaigns. The Give One Get One program (in which individuals can purchase two laptops, one for themselves and...

Tags: Boston Globe, Laptop Computer, Computer, One Laptop Per Child Project, Productivity, Notebooks, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Christopher Dawson

Blog posts 2007-12-02

A swimming robot -- inside your body

The Boston Globe describes the efforts of a Japanese-born scientist to develop new technologies for use in surgery. His last project is to build a swimming robot designed to explore the human gastrointestinal tract GI tract from esophagus to colon. This 2-centimeter long robot will have a swimming tail to...

Tags: Robotics, Health &, Medicine, Engineering &, Innovation

Blog posts 2007-05-08

Seeing colors in the night

In "Things that show color in the night," the Boston Globe reports that a company named Tenebraex is helping color blind people to travel. But its also developing goggles to help soldiers and physicians to see all colors at night, and not only the green color of current night vision...

Tags: Tenebraex Corp., ColorPath CCNVD, vision, Boston Globe

Blog posts 2007-03-26

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Massachusetts becomes Canada as reform debate nears climax

Obamacare ship is sinkingPeople saw the light with the failed socialist experiment in mASSachusetts, so liberal politicians like Barnie Frank can stuck their health care reform where the sun doesn't shine.Yeah, the ship is sinking, but it is Obama who's rearanging the chairs to give Pelosi and Reid front row...

Tags: Vertical industries, Benefits, HEALTHCARE, health care

Discussion threads 2009-10-19

Boston Local News Free 1.0 (Mobile)

Boston Local News Free provides quick access to all the top news sites for the great city of Boston, including many that are specially formatted for the iPhone or iPod Touch screen. The current sites include Boston Globe, Boston Herald, Mass High Tech, Boston Business Journal, Boston Magazine, NBC Boston...

Tags: Mobile, Boston, Martian Technology LLC, Boston Local News Free, Smart Phones, Digital Music, Digital Media, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology

Software downloads 2009-09-22

News to know: Microsoft; Google; Dell; Robo-pills; Android;

Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET’s around-the-Web tech coverage. Ed Bott: A close-up look at the new Office Web Apps Gallery: Office Web Apps Technical Preview ...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Google Inc., Dell Computer Corp., Microsoft Office, Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., Photograph, Smart Phones, Federal Government, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Government, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-09-21

Boston Local News 1.0 (Mobile)

Boston Local News provides quick access to all the top news sites for the great city of Boston, including many that are specially formatted for the iPhone or iPod Touch screen. Its current sites include Boston Globe, Boston Herald, Mass High Tech, Boston Business Journal, Boston NBC Boston - WHDH,...

Tags: Boston Inc., Mobile, Martian Technology LLC, Boston Local News, Smart Phones, Digital Music, Digital Media, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology

Software downloads 2009-08-17

Wolfram Alpha...ongoing impressions from day 1

Wolfram Alpha...ongoing impressions from day 1Great for science usebut no good as an internet street map.Never intended to be a Google killerIt was never meant to be a Google killer - and only foolish media that depicted it as one. Clearly it is not a search engine, but what it...

Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, SEARCH, Wolfram|Alpha, Wolfram Alpha, ongoing impression, Look-Up, search engine

Discussion threads 2009-05-18

More details emerge on Wolfram Alpha

Set to launch this month, Wolfram Alpha promises to be the next big thing from the same guy who transformed mathematical software. Ahead of its launch, though, we're seeing some details emerge that may position it as more of a Google Supplement than a Google killer. In fact, the...

Tags: Google Inc., Productivity, Search, Christopher Dawson

Blog posts 2009-05-10

Amazon Kindle DX: The solution to a problem that doesn't exist

From the first moment I picked up Amazon's new large-format e-reader, the Kindle DX, I liked it. The plastic was smooth to the touch, the flat e-ink screen was easy on the eyes, and the large 9.7-in. screen only magnified just how thin the...

Tags: Amazon.com Inc., Magazine, Textbook, Amazon Kindle, Kindle DX, DX, Digital Music, Digital Media, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics, Andrew Nusca

Blog posts 2009-05-06

Is Google Health falling behind in PHR market?

Is Google Health falling behind in PHR market?Yes, I agree with Roni's postHi Dana. Thoughtful post. I'm not sure exactly what you mean by "passed [my] test" :), but fwiw, what Roni says in that post matches my view of things. I have a strong sense that he...

Tags: Vertical industries, Benefits, HEALTHCARE, E-health, Google Inc., Google Health, health care, PHR market, PHR

Discussion threads 2009-04-27

Do not call him the Craigslist killer

Do not call him the Craigslist killerThe Boston Globe killer?That would be the NYT.;-)RE: Do not call him the Craigslist killerI don't see the big deal with the moniker.Victims of the Green River killer shouldn't avoid water in general, of course. But if you knew a killer was lurking around...

Tags: Advertising & Promotion, killer, Craigslist Killer, Do-Not-Call, Craigslist

Discussion threads 2009-04-17

Google Health faces its first test

Google Health faces its first testRE: Google Health faces its first testYesterday, the steam on this picked up. It made the Boston Globe and I caught it a few hours after his post. We have a coding issue here which involves mapping as well as how prior visits...

Tags: Vertical industries, HEALTHCARE, Benefits, Google Health, health care, Google Inc., first test

Discussion threads 2009-04-13

Newspapers as non-profits? Not a bad idea

Newspapers as non-profits? Not a bad ideaWatchdogs of governmentSome of us are old enough to remember when newspapers actually took that responsibility seriously. Now, with one Party in charge of all branches of government and the press, it is not hard to see the end of democracy looming large...

Tags: Vertical industries, Litigation, watchdog, government, bad idea

Discussion threads 2009-03-24

Gagging patients from online criticism

Gagging patients from online criticismThe empowered patient's perspectiveStrictly speaking, I myself didn't call it repulsive – I quoted the founder of RateMDs.com, as reported in the AP article. I called it disempowering and "an almost comical attempt to hold back the tide." :–)Check out, in that post, what Clay...

Tags: patient, online criticism

Discussion threads 2009-03-04

Apple's Cook looking at 'iPhone business model' in Jobs' absence

Apple acting CEO Tim Cook, filling in for Steve Jobs, is confident in the company's forecast for this quarter, and has hinted of iPhone price changes, new handsets and -- yes -- even Netbook computers, reports the Boston Globe. Cook has said that...

Tags: Absence, Apple iPhone, Job, Apple Inc., Netbook, Netbooks, Nettops & MIDs, Hardware, Andrew Nusca

Blog posts 2009-02-13

Hope poster artist sued, arrested

News of the weird. First Obama poster artist Shepard Fairey is sued by AP for copyright infringement for using a wire service photo as a model for his artwork (a particularly obnoxious assertion of copyright: if painting from a photo is copyright infringement, why doesn't AP sue the estate of...

Tags: Associated Press, Artist, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2009-02-10

Happy birthday to me: a $20 laptop?

It's my birthday today woot, so India is celebrating by debuting a prototype of their $20 laptop during a National Mission on Education launch in Tirupati. OK, so it's actually just coincidence that they're showing it on my birthday, but still, I figured it was worthy of a bit...

Tags: India, Manufacturing, Laptop Computer, Details, Indian Government, Government, Notebooks, Vertical Industries, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Enterprise Software, Software, Christopher Dawson

Blog posts 2009-02-02

Bucking the trend, handful of open source players attract VC funding

Venture capital spending is down eight percent nationally yet a number of open source companies have scored big funding wins as of late. Talend, which develops open source data integration software including Open Studio, this week announced it secured $12 million from investors Balderton Capital,...

Tags: Software, Venture Capital, Open Source, Finance, Financing Startups, Paula Rooney

Blog posts 2009-01-27

Low cost is king

Low cost is kingI have most of the gear to go with blu-ray... i just refuse to pay for it.So money is the big deal. Why pay for something thats slightly better when i have can use something thats easily transportable use in any device now , takes up...

Tags: Sales strategy, advertisement, online advertising, Apple Inc., sales, Low-cost

Discussion threads 2008-10-21