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- XP on XO: Negroponte has lost his bearings
- At ZD's Hardware 2.0 blog, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes cites this quote from former OLPC developer Ivan Krstic about Nicholas Negroponte's rapidly shifting mission statement: In fact, I quit when Nicholas told me — and not just me — that learning was never part of the mission....
- Tags: Education, Team, Microsoft Windows XP, Laptop Computer, One Laptop Per Child Project, Nicholas Negroponte, Team Management, Management, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-05-16
- Britain releases its X-Files
- The truth may be out there, but so far it's not in the government files. The British government posted the first batch of its X-Files to a website today in a project that will eventually see the Ministry of Defence turn over to the National Archives 160 files on UFO...
- Tags: Officer, Britain, Alien, Missile, UFO, Government, Vertical Industries, Aerospace & Defense, Servers, Enterprise Software, Software, Manufacturing, Hardware, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-05-14
- UK warned of China, India software threat
- Key UK industry figures believe Britain should forget any hopes of matching China and India in the low-cost end of the software market, and instead carve out a high-end niche. UK software sales are on course to lag almost $60 billion behind China this year, fuelling high-level calls for...
- Tags: Revenue, China, India, U.K., Tools & Techniques, Management, Nick Heath silicon.com, software, Inda, services
- News items 2008-05-14
- Marc Benioff heralds Web 3.0 at DreamForce Europe
- Salesforce.com has come to London today for its first DreamForce Europe event. There have been European customer and partner events in previous years, but this is the first event at true DreamForce scale — 2,500 attendees at the Barbican conference center in the heart of the City, London's financial district....
- Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Web, Marc Benioff, Web 3.0, PaaS, Force.com, Sales Force Management, Channel Management, Sales, Marketing, Phil Wainewright
- Blog posts 2008-05-07
- The "ubiquitous computer" changing the ed tech landscape
- The Christian Science Monitor is featuring a piece on netbooks and the drastically decreased cost of bringing computing to students and adults in both mature and developing markets. According to Michael Gartenberg, vice president and research director at Jupiter Research, They represent the idea of the "ubiquitous computer...
- Tags: Computer, One Laptop Per Child Project, Productivity, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2008-05-06
- Word up to Linux fan boys: Multiple Linux flaws show that Linux also has kernel issues
- Word up to Linux fan boys: Multiple Linux flaws show that Linux also has kernel issuesLet's find out.I'd like to know just what the similarities or lack there of will be in security issues when Linux replaces Windows as the OS of the people.Apple's dealing with this right nowTime to...
- Tags: Operating systems, UNIX, OPEN SOURCE, SECURITY, Microsoft Word, Linux, Microsoft Corp., flaw, Microsoft Windows
- Discussion threads 2008-05-01
- Word up to Linux fan boys: Multiple Linux flaws show that Linux also has kernel issues
- Not to defend Microsoft, as kernel exploits that provide privileged access are terrible flaws, but we had an interesting discussion in the talkbacks where several people acted as if Microsoft was the only place that could've made such mistakes. Well, the proof is in the pudding that this is a common flaw...
- Tags: Denial Of Service, Microsoft Word, Kernel, Debian, Flaw, Linux, Security, Operating Systems, Open Source, Software, Nathan McFeters
- Blog posts 2008-05-01
- Indian techies snubbing US jobs to stay home
- Indian techies snubbing US jobs to stay homeThat's What Locusts Do.They destroy one place and move on to the next one. Indians destroyed the job market in America and they are moving on to the next place to gut out and leave to die.RE: Indian techies snubbing US jobs...
- Tags: Recruitment & Selection, family network, Indian techy, job
- Discussion threads 2008-04-29
- What One Laptop Per Child lacks
- An entrepreneur. (Read to the end for the story of this picture.) Nicholas Negroponte is a brilliant man, a futurist of high rank, an idealist, and an all-around nice guy. He is not an entrepreneur. Neither, for that matter, is Walter...
- Tags: Entrepreneur, One Laptop Per Child Project, Tycho, Entrepreneurship, Management, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-04-29
- Verdict in Hans Reiser murder case -- and fate of Reiser4 -- imminent
- The fate of the Reiser4 file system for Linux may well depend on a verdict rendered by a California jury this week. As an Alameda County jury continues to deliberate the fate of Hans Reiser, the designer of the Reiser File System for Linux who is accused of murdering...
- Tags: Developer, Ubuntu, Linux Kernel, File System, Verdict, Reiser4, Reiser, Linux, Open Source, UNIX, Operating Systems, Software, Paula Rooney
- Blog posts 2008-04-28
- Noble goals and politics at the OLPC
- Noble goals and politics at the OLPCSidetrack in progressDoes look like OLPC is being distracted from its original goal by corporate politics and maybe a little bit of purism. A Windows port of Sugar may or may not be worthwhile, but it could wait for a subsequent release.Cross platform...
- Tags: Operating systems, One Laptop Per Child project, Microsoft Windows, computer
- Discussion threads 2008-04-25
- News to know: Apple; Windows updates; Google mobile ads; Denial of service attack 101
- Notable headlines: Larry Dignan: Apple blows through estimates; Ships 2.29 million Macs; Outlook light by design? Techmeme Jason O'Grady: Liveblogging: Apple's Q2 2008 financial results Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Why I won't be buying a "Hackint0sh" system Forbes: Apple Buys Chip Designer...
- Tags: Denial Of Service, Google Inc., Advertisement, Microsoft Windows Update, Mobile, Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows, Linux, Security, Operating Systems, Open Source, Software, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-04-24
- Redeveloping Sugar for Windows XP Home...yeah, great idea, Nick
- Redeveloping Sugar for Windows XP Home...yeah, great idea, NickCome over to The Dark SideOLPC is to help break the chain of poverty, and pathetic decisions that so many billions of people have been making over the last CENTURY.Microsoft is all about selling Operating Systems (which never work well ... )which...
- Tags: Linux, Operating systems, OPEN SOURCE, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition, Microsoft Windows XP, Sugar
- Discussion threads 2008-04-23
- Redeveloping Sugar for Windows XP Home...yeah, great idea, Nick
- PC World, among other outlets, is reporting on Nicholas Negroponte's call to make the Sugar interface used on the OLPC XO laptops "platform agnostic." In other words, redevelop it to run on top of Windows XP. Of course, since Microsoft will only allow Windows XP Home to be...
- Tags: Developer, Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition, One Laptop Per Child Project, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows XP, Operating Systems, Open Source, Software, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2008-04-23
- Linked Data on the Web, WWW2008
- The main programme of this year's World Wide Web Conference gets underway here in Beijing today Wednesday, but ahead of that yesterday was devoted to workshops. With my colleague Tom Heath one of the co-chairs, a paper pdf from colleagues Rob Styles, Nadeem Shabir and the absent...
- Tags: Web, Tim Berners-Lee, Channel Management, Marketing, Paul Miller
- Blog posts 2008-04-22
- The truth about desktops and laptops
- The failure of One Laptop Per Child and it is a failure to mass market its $100 Linux laptops made me realize something important about that market. There is something cheaper than free. It's called subsidized, bundled, marketed and supported. Subsidy comes in many...
- Tags: Desktop, Handheld, Laptop Computer, Handheld Internet Terminal, Linux, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, UNIX, Open Source, Software, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-04-22
- Web 2.0 success stories driving WOA and informing SOA
- The striking contrast between the stories that we've been hearing lately about the slow going of SOA initiatives in the enterprise and the vibrant and rapidly growing ecosystems similar to them on the consumer Web has been generating a lot of debate and discussion in the enterprise IT community recently....
- Tags: Web, Web 2.0, SOA, Organization, Enterprise, WOA, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Channel Management, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Marketing, Dion Hinchcliffe
- Blog posts 2008-04-17
- Can DimDim change the conference game?
- Can DimDim change the conference game?oovooIt's another free video conference software. Runs reasonably well on XP, with up to 4 attendees. Doesn't require a built in video camera... most anything that Windows can find will work.Nick
- Tags: Games, DimDim, game
- Discussion threads 2008-04-15
- News to know: AOL, Linux; Mac clones; Mobile Web
- Notable headlines: Ed Bott: Making sense of Windows' irrational pricing and licensing Robin Harris: 2.5" disks to become new standard in 2009 TechRepublic: 10 common mistakes to avoid when you're installing Linux software Christopher Dawson: My kid hates...
- Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Google Inc., Apple Macintosh, Mobile, America Online Inc., Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., Linux, Microsoft Windows, Wiki, Open Source, Sales Force Management, Operating Systems, UNIX, Software, Online Communications, Sales, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-04-15
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