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- Evaluating thin clients from a position of strength
- All too often our schools (and even our colleges and universities) turn to thin-clients as a 'last resort' to address severe budgetary constraints without regard for other alternatives which can also reduce costs without sacrificing needed computing resources. Many view thin-clients as a one-stop solution which fixes easy-to-identify problems within an existing infrastructure. Often...
- Tags: K-12, Higher Ed, Funding, Emerging Tech, Education Technology, Classroom Tech
- Blog posts 2007-07-27
- OLPC founder finally faces a 'grim reality'
- OLPC to run Windows? Say it ain’t so! was the headline and so far reader reaction is mixed. Adrian Kingsley-Hughes reports $175 OLPC deals blow to open source, guarantees Microsoft’s continued dominance. From the beginning, the One Laptop per Child foundation, the brainchild of MITs Nicholas Negroponte, has...
- Tags: Education Technology, Emerging Tech, Funding, Hardware, K-12, Microsoft, Open Source
- Blog posts 2007-04-30
- Why Linux will not displace Windows
- I firmly believe that, all else being equal, the differences between the Windows desktop, the Macintosh desktop, and the Linux desktop are negligible. With the proper applications, all three platforms will be capable of providing a satisfactory experience for any user. All three platforms have both free and...
- Tags: Operating systems, UNIX, OPEN SOURCE, Desktops, Linux, Microsoft Windows, desktop
- Blog posts 2007-03-12
- One Laptop per Child ... a new perspective
- In my most recent post, Its not what their losing, its what they stand to gain, I came across a response from Antonio M. Battro, the Chief Education Officer of the One Laptop per Child association. I want to publicly thank Mr. Battro for his response and to share...
- Tags: Notebooks, Antonio M. Battro, laptop computer, textbook, One Laptop per Child
- Blog posts 2007-01-30
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- Seesmic fires a third of staff as recession bites
- Loic LeMeur, CEO of Seesmic has announced the company is reducing its headcount by seven people. That may not sound like a huge number but as LeMeur says in the video announcement: ...the longevity of the company is obviously of significant importance - and thus we must reduce costs...
- Tags: Recession, Video, Seesmic, Corporate Communications, Marketing, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2008-10-10
- Print this: Actually, please don't, but DO think about why printers should get more airtime in green tech discussions
- I was talking to someone within the past couple of months (I honestly can't remember who right now, sorry) who made a pretty profound statement that seems pertinent in the context of this post. I had just admitted, somewhat shamefacedly, to my ongoing addiction to printing out my notes, presentations...
- Tags: Green Technology, Printing, Printers, Document Management, Hardware, Peripherals, Enterprise Software, Software, Finance, Managerial Accounting, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2008-10-10
- Remember IBM at $10.50 per Share? Oracle as a penny stock? Tales of Hope from the Great High Tech Depression of ‘89
- Ah, distinctly I remember it was in the bleak …..October. Paraphrasing Edgar Allen Poe's The Raven seems somehow appropriate to this moment, when it seems that everything we've all worked and dreamed about is going up in smoke. And yet, having seen a version of this movie...
- Tags: Oracle Corp., Recession, Stock, IBM Corp., Tech Stock, Investment, Finance, Joshua Greenbaum
- Blog posts 2008-10-10
- My three cents: Verizon's text fee could cripple SMS services
- Verizon Wireless dropped a bomb today on companies that send content over SMS text messaging systems. Techmeme Effective Nov. 1, companies that send messages and other notifications to Verizon Wireless customers via SMS text message - that's everyone from Google to Twitter to startups like alerts.com - could be forced...
- Tags: Fee, Verizon Communications Inc., Text Messaging, Messaging, SMS, Verizon Wireless, Twitter, Text Messaging/SMS/MMS, Telephony, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Online Communications, Networking, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2008-10-10
- The elephant in the room: SOA and the economy
- We've all been distracted by events in the economy over the past few weeks, and let's face it, it makes for a very large elephant in the room when we talk about SOA. All debates about REST, SOAP, Java, .NET, JSON, ESBs, WOA won't mean a thing...
- Tags: SOA, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Joe McKendrick
- Blog posts 2008-10-10
- Will HTC be the first to launch a WiMAX-enabled mobile phone?
- Fellow Mobile Tech Roundup podcast co-host Kevin Tofel went to the Sprint/XOHM WiMAX launch event in Baltimore this week and wrote up his thoughts. The event was focused mainly on the devices that support the WiMAX network that was launched the week before and as a mobile guy I was...
- Tags: High Tech Computer Corp., Phone, Mobile, Radio, Cell Phone, Nokia N810, WiMAX, Advertising & Promotion, Wi-Fi, Wireless, Marketing, Matthew Miller
- Blog posts 2008-10-10
- Microsoft Big Brains: Gary Flake
- Today I am launching a new series, "Microsoft Big Brains." Over the course of the coming weeks, I'll be profiling Microsoft's Technical Fellows -- the 22 or so individuals who are helping to fill Chairman Bill Gates' shoes at the company, in terms of setting Redmond's future product/strategy agenda. The...
- Tags: Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp., Team Management, Search, Strategy, Management, Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2008-10-10
- Overachiever: Sun surpasses greenhouse gas reduction goals
- Bully for Sun Microsystems. The company's U.S. operations have actually already overshot the 20 percent reduction goal originally set for 2012 under the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's Climate Leaders program. Yes, that's right folks, a tech company has done something earlier than expected! The company reports this...
- Tags: Emission, Sun Microsystems Inc., Greenhouse Gas, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2008-10-10
- Wall Street: MSFT should buy Yahoo, consider RIM
- A Wall Street investor has suggested that the stars may be aligned just right for Microsoft to make another run at Yahoo, this time for $22 per share. Investment fund Mithras Capital, which owns more than 1.9 million shares, or 0.14 percent, of Yahoo, said Microsoft has a window of...
- Tags: Research In Motion Ltd., Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp., MSFT, Financial Accounting, Search, Advertising & Promotion, Handhelds, Finance, Marketing, Hardware, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2008-10-10
- Netbook returns blamed on Linux 'teething problems'
- Higher return rates for Linux-based netbooks don't necessarily reflect badly on the open-source operating system, according to Ubuntu backer Canonical. The return rate on Linux-powered netbooks may be higher than that for Windows netbooks, but this isn't necessarily a bad thing for Linux, according to Canonical. ...
- Tags: Ubuntu, Linux, UNIX, Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows, Open Source, Software, Matthew Broersma ZDNet.co.uk, netbook, Windows XP, MSI Wind, Asus Eeee
- News items 2008-10-10
- Forrester: Credit crunch may freeze tech services projects
- Forrester Research in a report is confirming that the credit crunch is beginning to hit technology services firms. The extent of the damage is unclear, but IBM's lower-than-expected third quarter revenue its earnings are stronger than expected may indicate something worse is afoot. Forrester's...
- Tags: Service Provider, IBM Corp., Forrester Research Inc., Business Services, Financial Accounting, Finance, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-10-10
- Economy-pinched semiconductor industry: How to ride the storm
- The credit crisis and overall economic downturn is starting to hit the semiconductor industry, which saw 5.5 percent sales growth in August. Research firm iSuppli has cut its 2008 sales growth forecast for the semiconductor industry from 4 percent to 3.5 percent and potentially even more if economic conditions continue...
- Tags: iSuppli Corp., Semiconductor Industry, Lidlow, Semiconductors, Hardware, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2008-10-09
- Uncov is back, and you can write for it
- The rantalicious tech blog Uncov took a brief hiatus from the Internet, but now it's back. Former Googler software engineer and current CTO of Pressflip Ted Dzubia will be doing most of the posting, but he's opened it up for anyone to contribute....
- Tags: Uncov, Internet, Blogging, Tools & Techniques, Management, Andrew Mager
- Blog posts 2008-10-09
- H-1B visas rife with fraud, worker mistreatment
- Thirteen percent of petitions for H-1B visas filed on behalf of employers are fraudulent. That's the conclusion of a report by the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services agency, part of the Department of Homeland Security, BusinessWeek reports. A key part of the fraud is loopholes that allow...
- Tags: Visa, Loophole, Worker, Fraud, H-1B, Human Resources, Labor Relations, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-10-09
- New MacBooks and MacBook Pros: $800 and Mini-DVI (updated)
- More details are emerging on the new MacBooks, due to be announced on Tuesday. Inquisitr received word that price lists provided to some Apple retailers in the United States include an SKU for an $800 notebook computer – a first for the Cupertino company. Apple retail...
- Tags: Apple MacBook, Apple MacBook Pro, Upside, Notebooks, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Jason D. O\'Grady
- Blog posts 2008-10-09
- Apple makes it official. Notebook announcement next week.
- The blogosphere was abuzz this morning with news of a sub-$1,000 Mac notebook - based on a price list that was given to retail stores and subsequently leaked to bloggers. But where's the confirmation from Apple? The company wouldn't announce some sort of milestone - and a sub-$1,000 notebook is...
- Tags: Apple MacBook, Apple Inc., Apple MacBook Pro, Notebooks, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2008-10-09
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