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OLPC backlash continues

PC Magazine's John Dvorak is the latest to question the real value of One Laptop Per Child's distribution of XO laptops in developing countries. He brings up points that have been percolating in the blogosphere for some time but presents them in one heck of a rant. He...

Tags: Food, Advertisement, John Dvorak, Laptop Computer, One Laptop Per Child Project, PC Magazine, Food & Beverage, Notebooks, Manufacturing, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Christopher Dawson

Blog posts 2007-12-09

Steve Ballmer:Windows Mobile 60%+ vs Apple iPhone at 3%

Steve Ballmer:Windows Mobile 60%+ vs Apple iPhone at 3%Was Ballmer talking only smart phones?He must have been talking about only a portion of the market.When I first saw the iPhone I couldn't wait to get one. Now I am 99% sure Apple/Rogers the Canadian carrier will price it higher...

Tags: Telecom & Utilities, John Dvorak, Apple iPhone, phone, Steve Ballmer:Windows Mobile, Apple Inc.

Discussion threads 2007-05-02

Dvorak: IE is a dead albatross

Every once in a while, John Dvorak hits one out of the park when he posts a rant that actually gets me thinking seriously. In his latest jab at Microsoft, he declares that the best thing the company could do would be to drop Internet explorer like a hot tuber....

Tags: Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Internet Explorer, Web browser, John Dvorak

Blog posts 2006-04-26

Sun Scott-free? Microsoft's albatross

A couple of things ripped from today's headlines:Scott McNealy steps down at Sun. He may have stepped down as CEO, but he's still chairman over at Fireball. Remember how Bill Gates "stepped down" as CEO of Microsoft a few years ago? I expect to hear plenty more zingers from...

Tags: Microsoft Corp., John Dvorak

Blog posts 2006-04-25

Additional Resources

Celebrating 27 years of the Compact Disc: Does anyone really care?

Today is the 27th birthday of the Compact Disc, and I hate to say it, but I think this medium is getting a little old. Perhaps 27 years in CD time is actually like turning 87 in human time: it had a good go in the...

Tags: Sony Corp., CD, Disc, Orchestra, Jennifer Bergen

Blog posts 2009-10-01

RSS: A good idea at the time but there are better ways now

I find it hard to believe that RRSusage was ever as high as 9%.I have a high-tech B2B client who had 1 person reading their RSS feed. But, within a week, had 15+ followers on Twitter.Twitter is easier for me to push out info.Twitter is easier for me to follow...

Tags: RSS, Twitter Inc.

Discussion threads 2009-08-25

Microsoft: No more three-app limit in Windows 7 Starter Edition

Microsoft: No more three-app limit in Windows 7 Starter EditionGood Move MSIt would have been a PR nightmare.The conspiracyIt makes me wonder if Microsoft announced the 3 app limit to the dismay of the tech elite so they could grip about it. Then from the 'feed-back' by the tech elite...

Tags: Netbooks, nettops & MIDs, Operating systems, netbook, three-app limit, Windows 7 Starter Edition, Windows 7 Starter, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2009-05-29

Chrome is a browser? What's a browser?

Chrome is a browser? What's a browser?Like I said....some people......or rather many people don't understand how to use a computer period. All this "average user can't use Linux" crap is just that....crap. Many people have no clue what they are doing on any OS. They've simply become accustomed to...

Tags: Web browsers, Web browser, Chrome, computer

Discussion threads 2009-04-12

Web 2.0 Expo: the end of the online search driven era?

I attended last week's Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco with a sense of trepidation. A year ago this event was jam packed and had a celebratory, in some cases cocky atmosphere - I was worried this time the expo would be a washout as a...

Tags: Web, Tim O'Reilly, Internet Search, Conference, Web 2.0, Channel Management, Internet, Marketing, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2009-04-05

NoAgenda Mobile 1.0 (Mobile)

NoAgenda is not just a podcast, but also an Internet live stream and a community. With NoAgenda Mobile you can listen to live stream of NoAgenda, that contains either live chat between Adam Curry and John Charles Dvorak or feedback channel from the audience and music. Apart from that, with...

Tags: Mobile, Celltica, NoAgenda, Podcasts, Internet, Digital Music, Digital Media, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics

Software downloads 2009-03-23

Where the Linux laptops live

Where the Linux laptops liveMore to the point, what % of Amazon's laptop sales are linux machines?NTShould be titled: 1/3 of amazon.com laptops are available with linuxThe Asus eee (EeE, eEE, Eee, whatever) machines have a choice of windows xp or linux so simply citing a sale of an eee...

Tags: UNIX, Operating systems, OPEN SOURCE, Linux laptop, Dana, Linux-version, Linux, laptop computer

Discussion threads 2008-08-29

ReactOS no threat to Windows

ReactOS is an implementation of Windows Server 2003, still in alpha stage, and very interesting. But it is no threat to Windows. None at all. Especially compared with Linux. Here's why. Sponsors. Linux has big corporate sponsors behind it, starting with...

Tags: Desktop, ReactOS, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Servers, Software, Hardware, Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2008-05-13

Is Stiglitz the official economist of open source?

If anyone may be deemed the official economist of open source, it's probably Joseph Stiglitz right. Stiglitz, 65, was a co-winner of the 2001 Nobel Prize in economics for work he did on the impact of asymmetric information. His paper said markets can be...

Tags: Patent, Economist, Open Source, Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2008-04-25

A surprise conversation with Larry Ellison

A surprise conversation with Larry EllisonYou could have done one about MS and open standardsbut that's already been done - just somebody forgot to tell them it's only applicable on April 1st.RE: A surprise conversation with Larry EllisonI love it; my fav past was "share a stage with Henning Kagerman."...

Tags: surprise conversation, Larry Ellison

Discussion threads 2008-04-01

Dvorak's cunning plan to kill Linux

Dvorak's cunning plan to kill LinuxIt's John C. Dvorak - Need Anyone Say More? ;)I can never decide whether Dvorak, the Harlan Ellison of Hi-Tech, irritates the living daylights out of me...or makes me laugh my butt off.Usually both....

Tags: UNIX, Dvorak, Linux

Discussion threads 2008-03-25

Should open source cheer Gates' swan song?

Should open source cheer Gates' swan song?An open source star really could help to increase awarness of Linux, andfree software in general. Linux Torvalds does not want to be a star, and though not as abrasive as Richard, still abrasive. Eric Raymond is a great writer, but he does not...

Tags: open source, Google Inc., Linux, Bill Gates, brand

Discussion threads 2008-01-07

Give a man a computer ...

At the end of his piece OLPC backlash continues, Chris Dawson asks his readers to "... explain how we can rationalize the opportunity costs of XO rollouts in OLPC’s target markets?" It's a very good question with lots of complex answers, as evidenced by some interesting replies from those...

Tags: Food, Computer, One Laptop Per Child Project, Food & Beverage, Manufacturing, Marc Wagner

Blog posts 2007-12-10

OLPC backlash continues

OLPC backlash continuesand what about the coruptionHow long will it be before the leaders of the African nations or other third world countries begin to fear the exposure the people of their country are getting to what is really going on and have the units outlawed, cofiscated or destroyed?No, OLPC...

Tags: Strategy, One Laptop Per Child project, education, food, knowledge

Discussion threads 2007-12-09

If you trade in dependency, you have to earn trust

For a while now, I've been keeping track of what I've been calling 'bad news' stories about on-demand applications and services. Yahoo's Cyber Monday blackout is just the latest in what has become a lengthy catalog: Yesterday, Yahoo! Small Business: "Yahoo's small business merchant systems go down...

Tags: Yahoo! Inc., On-demand, Client, E-mail Providers, Internet, Phil Wainewright

Blog posts 2007-11-28

Macs that hate Adobe fonts, love Microsoft ones

Macs that hate Adobe fonts, love Microsoft onesJust another case of Apple innovating ...... by copying from someone else. Enough said!RE: Macs that hate Adobe fonts, love Microsoft onesSo many errors I don’t know where to begin. Helvetica has never shipped in Windows “New” or otherwise, and it’s “Helvetica...

Tags: Desktops, Helvetica, Postcript, font, Adobe font, TrueType, Apple Macintosh, Adobe Systems Inc., Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2007-11-27