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- News to know: Intel; WiMax, Oracle; Craigslist; Apple's WWDC
- Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET’s around-the-Web tech coverage. Andrew Nusca: EC: Intel 'abused dominant position' vs AMD; fined record $1.45 billion in antitrust case Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: EU...
- Tags: Larry Dignan, Craigslist, Richard Koman, WWDC, Oracle Corp., Apple Inc., Sam Diaz, Intel Corp., Virtualization, WiMAX, Corporate Law, Netbooks, Nettops & MIDs, Security, Hardware, Wireless And Mobility, Business Operations
- Blog posts 2009-05-14
- Apple snags ex-OLPC security chief
- Former director of security architecture at One Laptop per Child OLPC Ivan Krstic has joined Apple to help thwart hacker attacks against the Mac operating system. Krstic, a well-respected innovator who designed the Bitfrost security...
- Tags: Operating System, Apple Inc., One Laptop Per Child Project, Security, Ryan Naraine
- Blog posts 2009-05-13
- South Carolina's OLPC initiative: money well-spent?
- South Carolina is looking to revive the dying OLPC brand by providing as many as 50,000 students with little PCs. According to OStatic, In order to receive a laptop, children need to give a small monetary donation -- the project coordinators say a dollar or two...
- Tags: South Carolina, Laptop Computer, One Laptop Per Child Project, Notebooks, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2009-05-13
- News to know: VMware; IE 8; Google; 3D Web
- Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET’s around-the-Web tech coverage. Sam Diaz: Facebook responds to redesign concerns; Changes are coming Mary Jo Foley: VMware picks up yet another former...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, 3D, Google Inc., Dell Computer Corp., VMware Inc., Microsoft Internet Explorer, Twitter, Smart Phones, Netbooks, Nettops & MIDs, Digital Rights Management (DRM), Open Source, Cellular Phones, Handhelds, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Hardware, Security, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-03-25
- Technology initiatives we should demand from the Obama administration
- As much as many of us would like to continue to revel in the day, the inauguration with all of its rock-concert fanfare, pomp and circumstance is over, and it is finally time for the new administration to get to work. The 44th President of the...
- Tags: Patient, Barack Obama, Administration, Broadband, Digital Television, TVs, Workforce Management, Tv & Home Theater, Broadband Internet, Network Technology, Telecommunications, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Human Resources, Networking, Jason Perlow
- Blog posts 2009-01-21
- News to know: Palm Pre, Windows 7, CES
- Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Matthew Miller: Welcome Palm Web OS, now what happens with Palm OS 5 applications? Sam Diaz: Palm's Pre and OS: Home-run announcements at CES Matthew Miller:...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows 7, Palm Inc., Dana Blankenhorn, Microsoft Windows, Phishing, Operating Systems, Web Site Development, Software, Security, Spam And Phishing, Internet, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2009-01-09
- OLPC revives G1G1: too little, too late
- Oh, there's lots of excitement that OLPC is bringing back Give One, Get One for this holiday season. Amazon is selling the green machines in pairs (one for a kid in the developing world, one for yours) and the G1G1 program is going global, too. ...
- Tags: One Laptop Per Child Project, G1G1, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-11-17
- 1 million Classmates headed to Venezuela
- 1 million Classmates headed to VenezuelaAgreedChavez can control any Open Source software in his country, as the government is taking control of all private industries.This is not really about what he feels is best for all, but instead of what he feels he can control the best.You failed to notice...
- Tags: Operating systems, OPEN SOURCE, Web browsers, Debian, Classmates, aversion, Linux
- Discussion threads 2008-09-30
- News to know: IE 8; iPhone password locks; SOA; Palm Treo Pro reviews
- Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Mary Jo Foley: IE 8 Beta 2 ready for download Ed Bott: Internet Explorer 8 gets a massive makeover Gallery: Internet Explorer 8 Beta 2 ...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Password, Palm Inc., Palm Treo, SOA, Microsoft Internet Explorer, Web Browsers, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Cellular Phones, Handhelds, Internet, Web Services, Enterprise Software, Software, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Hardware, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-08-28
- Did the big boys really kill OLPC?
- Did the big boys really kill OLPC?Look at where the story originated fromThe UK. You know, Ant-Microsoft, Anti-Intel.This is just another attempt to bolster the country's "home grown" Linux initiative.I am sure they where happy to have the XO use AMD chips (Dresden, Germany) though quite angry they where not...
- Tags: Operating systems, OPEN SOURCE, One Laptop Per Child project, Microsoft Corp., Linux
- Discussion threads 2008-08-11
- Intel to deliver 500,000 Classmates to Portugal
- Intel said Wednesday that it has inked a pact with the Portuguese government to supply 500,000 Classmate PCs to elementary school students. The chip giant is part of the Magellan Initiative, Portugal's education technology plan. It was launched by Portuguese Prime Minister José Sócrates and Intel Chairman...
- Tags: Intel Corp., Portugal, Government, Notebooks, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-07-30
- Microsoft finalizes Windows XP for OLPC laptops
- Microsoft finalizes Windows XP for OLPC laptopsjust thinknow instead of being stuck in a little puddle they can go out there and swim in the ocean of windows applications like the rest of us - a zillion kids just smiledlinuxhelp.net:~# apt-get install mozilla-firefoxReading Package Lists... DoneBuilding Dependency Tree... DoneThe following...
- Tags: Operating systems, Vista-64, Microsoft Windows XP, One Laptop Per Child project, Microsoft Corp., OLPC Laptop, Microsoft Windows
- Discussion threads 2008-07-25
- WinXP on XO laptops OK as long as Linux runs, too
- Microsoft’s agreement to offer Windows XP on OLPC’s XO laptop is appropriate and long overdue. It was pure hypocrasy for Microsoft billionaire Bill Gates to publicly decry the so-called “Digital Divide†while privately refusing to support the XO simply because Linux was a supported operating system. ...
- Tags: Operating System, Bill Gates, Microsoft Corp., Laptop Computer, One Laptop Per Child Project, XO, Gates Foundation, Linux, Microsoft Windows XP, Operating Systems, Software, Microsoft Windows, Paula Rooney
- Blog posts 2008-05-16
- It's finally official: XP is coming to the XO
- It's finally official: XP is coming to the XOMS themselves have not accomplished this yet...with satisfactory results, so I doubt you will have any success. Why don't you try Xubuntu or Puppy Linux on a USB drive? Or sell it on eBay? http://xubuntublog.wordpress.com/2007/07/03/xubuntu-feisty-now-from-usb-drive/http://www.pendrivelinux.com/2006/03/25/puppy-linux-on-usb/TripleIIThen drop the Linux version"Let the...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows, Operating systems, Microsoft Windows XP, XP IS, One Laptop Per Child project, Linux
- Discussion threads 2008-05-15
- It's finally official: XP is coming to the XO
- Microsoft's participation in the One Laptop Per Child OLPC initiative has been fraught with mystery and disinformation from the get-go. But on May 15, Microsoft officials finally gave the OLPC project Redmond's official blessing. Up to this point, OLPC Chief Nicholas Negroponte preannounced Microsoft's every move on...
- Tags: Linux, Microsoft Windows XP, Microsoft Corp., One Laptop Per Child Project, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software, Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2008-05-15
- Another Windows veteran to leave Microsoft
- Will Poole, a Microsoft Windows veteran -- and most recently, Corporate Vice President in charge of the company's Unlimited Potential group -- is retiring, according to sources who asked not to be named. Poole, who has been at Microsoft 12 years, previously was the Senior Vice President...
- Tags: Microsoft Corp., Poole, Ayala, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software, Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2008-04-14
- Have you gotten one yet?
- Businessweek and ZDNet Asia reported earlier this week that many customers who participated in OLPC's Give One Get One (G1G1) program are still waiting for the Get One to materialize. The idea behind the G1G1 initiative was that donors could, for $400, purchase both an XO computer for themselves...
- Tags: Laptop Computer, One Laptop Per Child Project, XO, Notebooks, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2008-01-31
- Microsoft denies dual-boot Linux/Windows XO laptops are on its agenda
- Microsoft denies dual-boot Linux/Windows XO laptops are on its agendaMessage has been deleted.Message has been deleted.Interesting to say who is alienating whomWith respect to Intel it is interesting to see who was alienating whom. According to the founding CTO of OLPC, Mary Lou Jepsen, it would appear the motives...
- Tags: Operating systems, Microsoft Corp., One Laptop Per Child project, dual boot, Intel Corp., Microsoft Windows, dual-boot Linux/Windows XO-laptop, Linux/Windows XO-laptop
- Discussion threads 2008-01-10
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