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- RIP OLPC
- Here are two priceless bits from a long comment on problems within the one laptop per child community published on his personal blog by Ivan Krstic - he works for Sun now, I think, but was the long term go to guy on the programming...
- Tags: Laptop Computer, One Laptop Per Child Project, Mako Hill, Sugar, Tools & Techniques, Linux, Management, Operating Systems, Software, Paul Murphy
- Blog posts 2008-05-20
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- Will Bush sign Pro-IP? Biz, labor, schools push for it
- There's no word yet on whether President Bush will sign the PRO-IP bill [ZDN] but big business and labor were united in favor of the bill that creates a copyright czar in the executive branch. The bill originally called for the Justice Dept. to prosecute copyright...
- Tags: Bill, President, IP, Justice Dept, Network Technology, Networking, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-10-10
- Student indicted for Palin e-mail hack
- Student indicted for Palin e-mail hackno luck for youseems your daddy wont be able bail you out of this one. Just remember to bring plenty of vaseline with you in prisonoh boy, is this kid in the crapperThis little jerky-boy is headed for a really miserable experience. Having a...
- Tags: Palin, Palin e-mail, e-mail
- Discussion threads 2008-10-08
- The cloud finally comes to education
- Cloud computing is one of those great buzzwords in IT that, so far, has meant very little to the average Ed Tech customer. We all have a pretty good idea what it means: lots of computers somewhere (we don't actually care where) doing lots of processing to deliver services...
- Tags: Education, PC, Thin Client, Computer, Cloud, SIMtone Corp., Desktops, Productivity, Thin Clients, Cloud Computing, Hardware, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2008-10-06
- A call to arms for radio fans: Pandora needs you now
- When I spoke to Pandora founder Tim Westergren last week he told me that there would be a time when the Internet radio site would need to issue a call to arms to its listeners -- that time is now. Westergren sent a pleading message to his...
- Tags: Internet Radio, Radio, U.S. Senate, Broadcaster, Pandora, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing, Jennifer Leggio
- Blog posts 2008-09-26
- Page accuses broadcasters of 'rigging' poor white-space tests
- Speaking on Capitol Hill yesterday, Google cofounder Larry Page accused broadcasters – if not the FCC – of "rigging" tests that found white-space devices interfere with TV broadcasts, the Washington Post reports. "The test was rigged deliberately," Page said during his...
- Tags: Larry Page, Broadcaster, TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Federal Government, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Government, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-09-25
- Times repeats Google spin on Yahoo ad deal
- Randall Stross, a business prof at San Jose State University, offers a full-throated defense of the Google-Yahoo pact, in the NYT today. Stross is currently working on a book called Planet Google: One Company's Audacious Plan To Organize Everything We Know and has...
- Tags: Google Inc., Advertisement, Yahoo! Inc., Auction, Stross, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-09-24
- Intel at Oracle OpenWorld: It's about time - and the cloud.
- The phrase "Time is Money" is likely being muttered throughout Wall Street and Capitol Hill this week as Congress is being urged to quickly pass $700 billion legislation for an economy-saving financial bailout. Here at San Francisco's Moscone Center, Intel President and CEO Paul Otellini used the...
- Tags: Oracle Corp., Intel Corp., Chip, Semiconductors, Network Technology, Enterprise Software, Hardware, Networking, Software, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2008-09-23
- How big the Google open source credibility gap
- How big the Google open source credibility gapSame script, different actorsEveryone hates "the king of the hill." Once upon a time, Microsoft was David and the Goliath was IBM... and everyone was filled with schadenfreude as IBM lost control of the PC market hardware and wound up seriously restructuring its...
- Tags: Google Inc., Microsoft Corp., Google open source credibility gap, IBM Corp., open source
- Discussion threads 2008-09-22
- China proposes UN policy to defeat anonymity
- China proposes UN policy to defeat anonymityClearly a crimefighting imperativeThe Universal Declaration of Human Rights is such a nuisance.RE: China proposes UN policy to defeat anonymityHmmm, this is quite disturbing. While I can see the benefits in one hand I see abuses in the other. And the abuses I see...
- Tags: INTERNET, Internet service providers (ISPs), Spam, Now Let
- Discussion threads 2008-09-12
- TechCrunch50: Day 3
- Photo by Steve Maller I've been covering TC50 for the past few days, and believe it or not, I'm still hungry for more startup pitches. 6:30 a.m. The final sessions of the conference are posted on BusinessWire: s Akoha...
- Tags: Hollywood, YouTube Inc., Video, Photograph, Bojam, Truecar, Playce, Panelist, Corporate Communications, Games, Marketing, Personal Technology, Andrew Mager
- Blog posts 2008-09-10
- Maybe It's Time for Twenty-Somethings To Take Over Media
- Media companies have to become technology companies, able to quickly and effectively deliver new services that appeal to a generation of readers who only spend about seven minutes a day of their free time reading stuff printed on paper. That's the contention propounded this morning by Harold...
- Tags: Media Company, Technology Company, BusinessWeek, Media, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing, Tom Steinert-Threlkeld
- Blog posts 2008-09-08
- Commercial development strategies
- Commercial development strategiesMy own two centsYour presentation, while quite interessting, miss, I think two points.first solaris, as I already stated on your previous post, is not anymore generic than any other operating system, be it windows, linux or AmigaOS. It is one specific operating system among other. I can...
- Tags: Operating systems, UNIX, operating system, GUI Front-end
- Discussion threads 2008-09-08
- Deep packet spy's CEO resigns
- Is this the beginning of the end for NebuAd, the Redwood City-based company that uses deep packet inspection technology to monitor Web surfing habits of individuals and use the information to insert advertising? CEO Bob Dykes has resigned to become Chief Financial Officer for Verifone. The company's...
- Tags: Packet Inspection, Internet Service Providers (ISPs), Business Services, Internet, Monitors & Displays, Hardware, Components, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2008-09-03
- Chrome and why Gates was right to be paranoid
- Chrome and why Gates was right to be paranoidGo on Google, kill them off once and for alllet's rid the world of these sloppy fat liars and have technology once again !!!!RE: Chrome and why Gates was right to be paranoidThe browser came about because IE 8 really scared the...
- Tags: Web browsers, Chrome, Google Inc., Web browser, Microsoft Internet Explorer
- Discussion threads 2008-09-03
- Dell repair adventure, day 3
- Dell repair adventure, day 3dell next day serviceI had to use the service back in February for my XPS 1330 as it had the Nvidia Issue. I have to say that as for the repair, they turned it in about 2 hours (according to the tracking numbers.) It...
- Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, Dell Computer Corp.
- Discussion threads 2008-09-02
- 2009 Honda Pilot EX-L 2WD
- Photo gallery:Honda Pilot EX-LLet's face it. The Honda Pilot has always looked like a brick on wheels. The new for 2009 Pilot, with its CR-V inspired grille, looks even worse. It doesn't get much better on the inside, with a dash dominated by cheap plastics and questionable material choices. As...
- Tags: Twin-Peaks, mpg, Honda Motor Co.
- Product reviews 2008-08-29
- Comcast sets 250GB ceiling
- Comcast sets 250GB ceilingRE: Comcast sets 250GB ceiling[i]"..Comcast won’t be releasing any programs that will let you easily monitor your bandwidth usage.."[/i]doesnt that directly violate the FCC order requiring Comcast to be fully transparent with their customers? To me this is still leaving them in the dark. IF they want...
- Tags: INTERNET, Corporate communications, Comcast Corp., ceiling
- Discussion threads 2008-08-29
- Does Big Brother know where you've been surfing?
- If you think no one will ever know about the Web sites you were surfing last night, guess again. It may not be your spouse, your boss or a cop - but there's growing interest in what sort of data your Internet Service Provider is collecting about your viewing habits....
- Tags: Google Gmail, Advertisement, Internet Service Provider, Packet Inspection, Internet Service Providers (ISPs), Internet, E-mail Providers, E-mail, Cloud Computing, Online Communications, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2008-08-25
- 10 reasons to love Silverlight and 10 reasons to hate it
- 10 reasons to love Silverlight and 10 reasons to hate itRE: really bad storyIt is a slow news day for me. But I thought it was one of the better breakdowns I'd seen and I'm also fishing for .NET/Mac hints.=Ryanreally bad storymust be a slow news day... they blog about...
- Tags: Microsoft development tools, Blogging, Microsoft Silverlight, Expression Blend
- Discussion threads 2008-08-18
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