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Who will win open source professor cage match?

In this corner, the challenger, the former executive director of MIT's Media Lab, software guru, now with Sugar Labs, the champion of Linux, Walter Benderrrrr! And in this corner, the champion, the co-founder of MIT's Media Lab, best-selling author, founder and chairman of One Laptop Per Child OLPC,...

Tags: Professor, Massachusetts Institute Of Technology, Hardware, One Laptop Per Child Project, Nick Negroponte, Walter Bender, Open Source, Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2008-05-19

Microsoft's OLPC coup and unintended consequences

Microsoft's OLPC coup and unintended consequencesda pusha monI find it ironic that most of the world will really believe they are getting something for nothing or at least a great deal when history has shown time and time again that this company has little to offer in innovation and security...

Tags: Operating systems, One Laptop Per Child project, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows, Nick Negroponte

Discussion threads 2007-04-27

Negroponte strikes back at Gates over $100 laptop

Nick Negroponte struck back at Bill Gates over his stinging criticism of the $100 laptop. Speaking at LinuxWorld Boston, the former head of the MIT Media Lab said, "When you have both Intel and Microsoft on your case, you know you're doing something right," the Washington Post reports....

Tags: $100-laptop, Nick Negroponte

Blog posts 2006-04-05

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How good is open source support?

How good is open source support?This why I do not want open source.I can never get help when I need it, and those that try to help have a very snobbish attitude, and like to say you are not learning because you do not want to learn.Well I can only...

Tags: Operating systems, open source, Linux

Discussion threads 2008-07-16

Top online video destinations for US users ages 2-11

Brand/Channel Unique Viewer % Audience, 000 Disney Records 49.6 179 EverythingGirl.com 48.0 161 MyePets 47.6 161 JETIX 46.9 159 Playhouse Disney 43.9 340 PBS Kids 43.1 281 LEGO 40.9 137 NickJr 39.6 718 ...

Tags: Online Video, Video, NB

Blog posts 2008-07-12

Virtual world tipping point: Is there an enterprise use?

Virtual world tipping point: Is there an enterprise use?"IBM has" not "IBM have"IBM is a single entity, therefore, please use singular verb usage. It should be "IBM has", not "IBM have". I see this grammatical mistake gaining momentum in a LOT of writing.RE: Virtual world tipping point: Is...

Tags: virtual world, enterprise use, IBM Corp.

Discussion threads 2008-07-09

Taking the 'H' Out of HR

You'll know that the efficiency drive that is called "self-service" in corporations around the globe will have reached its ultimate course when you walk into your human resources department and find only a telephone on the counter. You'll pick it up...

Tags: Talent, Human Resources, Tom Steinert-Threlkeld

Blog posts 2008-06-27

Nokia buys Symbian to form open-source Android killer

Nokia buys Symbian to form open-source Android killerOpen sores are good, but when is it too many?It's about time Symbian went open sores. I guess, Nokia, Mot and others saw the writing on the wall. Never mind Android, the real fear is Apple iPhone. The juggernaut is unstoppable if...

Tags: Linux, UNIX, juggernaut, Open Sores, Symbian Inc., open source, Nokia Corp., Nokia Buys Symbian, killer

Discussion threads 2008-06-24

Live Webcast: Email is Critical...and Out of Control!

More than 75% of the average company's intellectual property is contained in email messages and their attachments. As a result, email has quickly become the file server of choice for most of us - and a headache for compliance managers. The value of unified information access to...

Tags: Webcast, Compliance, Coveo Solutions Inc., E-mail, Online Communications

Webcasts 2008-06-19

Social networking on the 'New York Times'

CNET News.com reporter Caroline McCarthy talks with Derek Gottfrid and Nick Thuesen, who developed TimesPeople, a new feed that lets people recommend stories to other readers on 'The New York Times' Web site.

Tags: Network, New York Times Co., Web Site Development, Web Technology, Channel Management, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Internet, News, caroline mccarthy, New York Times, TimesPeople, social networking, news

Videos 2008-06-18

A good teacher goes a long ways

My family joined my youngest son's Kindergarten teacher at an American Cancer Society Relay for Life this weekend. We only walked with her for an hour, but, having survived cancer a couple years ago, she asked her class to walk with her this year. Unfortunately, it was brutally...

Tags: Mrs., Teacher, Kids, Recruitment & Selection, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Christopher Dawson

Blog posts 2008-06-08

Microsoft readies new Producer for PowerPoint rich-media add-in

Microsoft has launched a private beta for the Producer add-in for PowerPoint 2007. Producer enables PowerPoint users to "capture, synchronize, and pubish audio, video, slides and images to create engaging rich media presentations that can be viewed in a web browser," explained Microsoft Senior Technical Account Manager...

Tags: Microsoft PowerPoint, Microsoft Corp., Producer, Microsoft Office, Office Suites, Software, Mary Jo Foley

Blog posts 2008-06-06

Leaked Pentagon doc slams Lockheed

A leaked Pentagon report said Lockheed Martin, the world's largest defense contractor, failed to "provide the requisite definition and discipline to properly plan and control complex, multi-billion dollar weapon systems acquisition programs." This allegation casts doubt on Lockheed's ability to manage large programs, including major IT...

Tags: Lockheed Martin Corp., Pentagon, Project Management, Tools & Techniques, Performance Management, Productivity, Strategy, Mergers & Acquisitions, It Operations, It service Management, Management, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Investment, Finance, Michael Krigsman

Blog posts 2008-06-05

Debunking yet another bogus malware study

Here we go again, with yet another round of bogus reporting about the extent of malware infections in the United States. This morning I read a report by Nick Farrell of The Inquirer, which was accompanied by the screamer headline One in Four US computers infected. It links in turn to a much longer...

Tags: Adware, OECD, Malware, Computer, Badware, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Cyberthreats, Spyware, Viruses And Worms, Productivity, Security, Ed Bott

Blog posts 2008-06-02

Sabotage and the cost of change

Sabotage and the cost of changeNot doing a very good job......of keeping the confidentiality of your clients. From what you have written, it's easy to guess that there is only one provincial political party that you would even consider doing work for, and it's not the Liberals.Only question is...

Tags: Operating systems, Servers, I.T, Only Question, Office 07, Sun Microsystems Inc., HP-UX, Unix, Microsoft Office, Sun Solaris, Microsoft Windows

Discussion threads 2008-05-29

Hardware 2.0 "Best Kit List" for Jun/Jul 08

Hardware 2.0 "Best Kit List" for Jun/Jul 08The CaseI own the case that you show here. I've had it for several months and let me tell you, it's GREAT. A few thing other thing that you don't mention that's worth noting are the built-in cable routing ability, included...

Tags: Cable, Construction, Enermax, Hardware 2.0, hardware

Discussion threads 2008-05-28

Cloud computing's earthly bonds

Nick Carr, who we all know doesn't like IT anyway, picked up on a new warning about a downside of cloud computing, reported by BBC. There's no such thing as a 'cloud' -- data has to be physically stored somewhere The issue is...

Tags: Cloud Computing, Bond, Information Technology, Strategy, Management, Joe McKendrick

Blog posts 2008-05-27

Microsoft to showcase social bookmarking at TechEd

One of the new technologies that Microsoft is planning to showcase at its upcoming TechEd U.S. conference is its social-bookmarking tool. John Martin, Lead Evangelist for Server & Tools Online -- as he describes it, "the group that manages the global MSDN, TechNet, Codeplex, and Expression...

Tags: TechEd, Social Bookmarking, Microsoft Corp., Web Browsers, Internet, Mary Jo Foley

Blog posts 2008-05-26

News to know: Dell vs. Apple; Virtualization smackdown; Cisco patch; iCal; SAP

Notable headlines: Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Could an OEM like Dell ever be as cool and as stylish as Apple? Next-generation Radeon GPUs to feature GDDR5 memory John Morris: Report: Nvidia GTX 200 series will be one big GPU EIC podcast: Microhoo; OLPC and...

Tags: Dell Computer Corp., Virtualization, Information Technology, SAP AG, Cell Phone, Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., Cisco Systems Inc., One Laptop Per Child Project, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-05-22

XO-2 laptop (Photos: OLPC's new $75 XO-2 laptop)

XO-2 laptop (Photos: OLPC's new $75 XO-2 laptop)A Glimse of the Future for Learning Appliances!Looking at the XO-2 makes me think of an enumerable amount of conversations that I have had with my education counterparts about an appliance that isn't an iPhone/PDA and isn't a notebook computer. I would...

Tags: Notebooks, PRODUCTIVITY, photograph, XO-2, XO-2 laptop, laptop computer, One Laptop Per Child project

Discussion threads 2008-05-21