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Negroponte: Windows key to OLPC philosophy

Negroponte: Windows key to OLPC philosophyNegropronte is right, we can not call it open and then not alow a specificOS. He is right to let MS port XP to the laptop.RE: Negroponte: Windows key to OLPC philosophyHaving Windows on the XO is just what it needs if this project is...

Tags: Operating systems, OPEN SOURCE, Negropronte, Negroponte, OLPC philosophy, One Laptop Per Child project, Windows Key, Microsoft Windows, laptop computer, Microsoft Corp., operating system, Linux

Discussion threads 2007-10-29

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Hey, Amazon! Are you stupid?

Edtech, or Googletech?Chris, is it possible for you to write an article where you are not excessively gushing about Google? We get the point already. For you, the sun rises and sets with Google. Google is master of the universe. Google can do no harm.As a...

Tags: Strategy, Google Inc., Amazon.com Inc.

Discussion threads 2009-09-13

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

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

Negroponte's laptop finally in production

Those $100 $200 laptops from Nick Negroponte are finally rolling off the production line at Quanta, the Taiwanese manufacturer of One Laptop Per Child's breakthrough XO laptops. OLPC says Quanta is currently producing 15,000 per month but that those numbers will rise. ...

Tags: Laptop Computer, One Laptop Per Child Project, Negroponte, XO, Wayan Vota, G1G1, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2007-11-07

News to know: Meebo; IBM; Gmail 2.0; PS3 supercomputer

Notable headlines: Robin Harris: Build an 8 PS3 supercomputer. IBM aims to salvage silicon for solar industry. Gallery right. Michael Krigsman: What's the value in enterprise software? Dan Farber: Meebo joins the season of platforms. Tom Foremski: Battle...

Tags: Google Gmail, Larry Dignan, Oracle Corp., Supercomputer, Sony PlayStation 3, Microsoft Corp., IBM Corp., E-mail Providers, OpenDocument Format (ODF), Spam, Viruses And Worms, Internet, Emerging Technologies, Security, Spam And Phishing

Blog posts 2007-10-30

If kids don't have electricity, will a laptop change their lives?

If kids don't have electricity, will a laptop change their lives?Children Between Two Rocks and a Hard PlaceI am betting that the OLPC will be the spark that sets their imaginations on fire and symbolize hope for a chance at having a better life.Let's keep that hope going. That's...

Tags: One Laptop Per Child project, laptop computer

Discussion threads 2007-10-12

Red Hat takes OLPC knowledge corporate

Red Hat takes OLPC knowledge corporatecollaborationThe oplc sugar gui is designed for collaboration. With all the increased corporate interest in collaboration, maybe that is going to be one of the selling points.By the way, your picture of the olpc computer is out of date. The new version doesn't have the...

Tags: Linux, OPEN SOURCE, Intel Corp., Red Hat Inc., Microsoft Corp., collaboration, One Laptop Per Child project

Discussion threads 2007-05-09