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- Big Oil greening up--is this a good thing?
- "Newsweek" would like you to believe it's a happy sign of the times to see global oil companies putting serious money into alternative fuels. They site investments by major oil companies in ehtanol. The "Newsweek" piece refers to more nations putting taxes or caps on carbon emissions,...
- Tags: Oil Company, Newsweek, Oil, Litigation, Personal Finance, Business Operations, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2009-09-20
- TealMovie: History of the F-111 Video Clip (Mobile)
- A supersonic look at the long range fighter-bomber that attacked Libya in 1986. The specs, history, speed and power of this innovative, controversial aircraft, in 56 target-pounding seconds. (1:02, 15fps, color); Submitted by CinemaElectric. View this movie with TealMovie, the PalmOS movie player by TealPoint Software, available for free trial...
- Tags: Mobile, Movie, TealPoint Software, Palm OS, Operating Systems, Software
- Software downloads 2009-07-08
- USAID.gov compromised, malware and exploits served
- The Azerbaijan section at the United States Agency for International Development (azerbaijan.usaid.gov) has been compromised and is embedded with malware and exploits serving scripts approximately around the 1st of March. The malicious script is taking advantage of a series of redirects which are dynamically loading live exploits, or rogue security...
- Tags: Malware, Cybercriminal, USAID.gov, Cn, Cn/check/check.php, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Cyberthreats, Viruses And Worms, Security, Dancho Danchev
- Blog posts 2009-03-06
- Currency (UIQ3) (Mobile)
- FEATURES - 137 currencies; - conversion between any given currency; - retrieving currency rates using an Internet connection.STARTUP AND SETTING RATES1. Start the application 2. In Options/Settings, select your Base currency, and your Internet access point you should do it only once 3. Add or remove currencies to the list...
- Tags: Mobile, Currency, Internet, Sales Force Management, Sales
- Software downloads 2008-06-23
- Microsoft's $235 million PIL is not so bitter
- Microsoft's Partners in Learning PIL program is one of those intiatives that only the hardest hearted cynics would disparage. Advancing the quality of education? Helping train teachers? Providing students in developing nations with access to technological tools? What's not to like? Some Microsoft observers -- including a...
- Tags: Microsoft Corp., Unlimited Potential, Linux, Investment, Operating Systems, Software, Finance, Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2008-01-22
- OLPC and Intel part ways
- Intel and OLPC agreed to collaborate last July on an Intel-based version of OLPC's XO laptop. While the deal raised quite a few eyebrows at the time, given Intel's criticism of the OLPC and their aggressive piloting of their own Classmate PC, Intel announced today that it had left...
- Tags: Intel Corp., One Laptop Per Child Project, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2008-01-03
- OLPC finally bears fruit ...
- Yesterday, eSchool News reported: Mere hours after news broke that Uruguay's government placed the first official order for the One Laptop Per Child initiative's XO, or "$100 laptop," chip giant Intel Corp. announces that Libya has ordered 150,000 of Intel's own version of the low-cost laptop, the...
- Tags: Intel Corp., One Laptop Per Child Project, XO, Nicholas Negroponte, Marc Wagner
- Blog posts 2007-11-06
- Intel%2C+Microsoft+sell+150%2C000+laptops+to+Libya
- Intel%2C+Microsoft+sell+150%2C000+laptops+to+LibyaBill Gates can't even leave THAT alone!Microsoft HAS to come out with the cheap computer for developing nations! He can't let that 100-200 US$ industrial laptop win out or Windows would lose out!Quick! Donate some more stuff !!Oh well, let companies far and wide donatethe more the merrier, or the...
- Tags: Microsoft Corp., One Laptop Per Child project, AC Power, Microsoft Windows NT, Intel Corp.
- Discussion threads 2007-10-31
- Could the 'War of the Worlds' scare happen today?
- Could the 'War of the Worlds' scare happen today?Manipulating the massesThe 'war of the worlds is old ha't. The greatest scam of the modern age is "The War On Terror". Can I suggest "The Northwoods Project" as preliminary reading to watching "Zeitgeist", "Loose Change" and "9/11 Mysteries". Then ask yourself...
- Tags: scare, 9/11 commission
- Discussion threads 2007-10-31
- News to know: Google's Facebook killer; HD DVD price war; Ellison's lockbox
- Notable headlines: Dan Farber: Google's OpenSocial: What it means. Garett Rogers: Google's OpenSocial platform is great! Techmeme. Dion Hinchcliffe: Significant workplace inroads for Enterprise 2.0? CIO Sessions: BT’s JP Rangaswami. George Ou: HD DVD price war begins at...
- Tags: Google Inc., Facebook, David Berlind, Larry Dignan, Open Source, HD-DVD, Microsoft Corp., Hd Dvd, Advertising & Promotion, Personal Technology, DVD, Home Entertainment, Marketing
- Blog posts 2007-10-31
- ZDNet reader: Don't let OOXML vs. ODF shenanigans tarnish other standards setters
- ZDNet reader: Don't let OOXML vs. ODF shenanigans tarnish other standards settersAgreedI've seen nothing like the sort of hardball that's been played in the OOXML standardization effort in the small standards body on which I sit. Consensus seems to work quite well; so well that I have yet to...
- Tags: OpenDocument Format (ODF), standards body, OOXML, OpenDocument Format
- Discussion threads 2007-09-06
- Microsoft's OLPC coup and unintended consequences
- Microsofts move to make Windows available for $3 to emerging markets is already having an impact on Linux. According to an AP report, Nicholas Negroponte said the $100 laptop for kids in developing countries actually runs about $175. He also...
- Tags: General, Hardware Infrastructure, Innovation, IT Management, Linux, Microsoft, Open Source
- Blog posts 2007-04-27
- Eager for outsourcing, Russia battles image problem
- Eager for outsourcing, Russia battles image problemSend anything to Russia and you will regret it.Sorry, I've done or tried to do business there and it's a complete waste of time.Quality vs cost...When did people forget TCO and ROI? These days it's sticker shock with no THOUGHT put into later-on...
- Tags: Taxes, Free trade, ROI/TCO, Leadership, outsourcing, Mafia
- Discussion threads 2007-02-15
- It's not what their losing, it's what they stand to gain
- It's not what their losing, it's what they stand to gainIrony, anyone?An article about students' lack of skills in "readin', ritin', and 'rithmetic"....that contains a misspelling in the title! ;c)(Psst...it's "they're" not "their"...)Doing the good now with the moneyYou saifd: "In the third-world, it's about where the money can do...
- Tags: XO-laptop, One Laptop Per Child project
- Discussion threads 2007-01-23
- Soon, children will get one laptop each
- After much ado, the One Laptop per Child project has announced that its $150 laptops in the hands of people in developing countries by July 2007, reports the BBC. Brazil, Argentina, Uruguay, Nigeria, Libya, Pakistan and Thailand are the first countries slated to receive the brightly colored laptops, now...
- Tags: laptop computer, DigitalDivide, Education Technology
- Blog posts 2007-01-02
- Africa Elevation Maps: Egypt, Libya, Algeria, Sudan, Tanzania, Ethiopia, Madagascar, Cameroon, ... 2.0 (Mobile)
- Africa Elevation Maps for PrettyMapThis free pack contains high resolution elevation map for Africa, divided into 4 smaller pieces. Each tile covers the projected area of 40x50, and contains almost 29 million of samples one sample per square kilometer. Areas covered by 4 maps in this packTerritories of 84 countries...
- Tags: Mobile, Maciej Komosinski, Elevation Map, PrettyMap, GIS, Software
- Software downloads 2006-11-26
- That one laptop is now running $150
- The now infamous $100 laptop of the One Laptop Per Child OLPC has just gotten a dubious promotion to $150, but is slated to ship out in 2007, reports News.com The prototype laptop was shown off this week at the Silicon Valley Challenge Summit, held...
- Tags: Education Technology, DigitalDivide, laptop computer, One Laptop per Child
- Blog posts 2006-11-17
- U.N. proposes changes to Net's operation
- U.N. proposes changes to Net's operationU.N. proposes changes to Net's operationScrew them. The U.S. should be in control of the internet. Yes the whole internet. After all we invented it :)US leadership is short-sightedRight now, other countries are arguing to include the US based internet in ongoing globalization......
- Tags: Blogging, Internet
- Discussion threads 2006-10-30
- Libya may be first buyer of $100 laptops
- Libya may be first buyer of $100 laptopsSmartest Idea yet!Great!! These laptops will find their way into the hands of Al Qaeda members or the shipments will disappear. Even if they get to the children of North Africa, who is going to filter the Internet for them? I can see...
- Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, Notebooks, INTERNET, laptop computer, computer, $100 laptop
- Discussion threads 2006-10-11
- Libya may be first buyer of $100 laptops
- The warming of relations with Libya and the U.S. has made inroads for nonprofits, including an agreement between the One Laptop Per Child OLPC project and the Libyan government to supply $100 laptops to all 1.2 million Libyan schoolchildren by June 2008, reports The New York Times. ...
- Tags: Nicholas Negroponte
- Blog posts 2006-10-11
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