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- XP meets XO: Will Linux get an equal shot?
- XP meets XO: Will Linux get an equal shot?Who are we kidding?Windows will slowly but surely edge out Linux in this market. Let us not kid ourselves here.Can you imagine a Linux person developing applications for the kids. There is no challenge there - developing applications for 3rd world children...
- Tags: Operating systems, UNIX, OPEN SOURCE, OLPC Project, Knowing Windows, Linux, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows XP, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2008-05-16
- How employers can pay the OLPC forward and why the OLPC project needs digital badges
- How employers can pay the OLPC forward and why the OLPC project needs digital badgesDavid, you need to get Marc Wagner off of Christopher Dawson's blog. Theyare completely different styles, and it is not clearly marked. You need to let people like Mark express their opinions, but they should do...
- Tags: One Laptop Per Child project, OLPC forward, OLPC Project
- Discussion threads 2007-11-14
- OLPC revisited - a skeptics view
- OLPC revisited - a skeptics viewSorry, broken recordWe could easily purchase and ship used XP laptops at a lower price than the OLPC - look at the price on eBay (~$200 and then imagine bulk purchasing).Condemning the poor to Linux is preventing them from using the global OS and reducing...
- Tags: OLPC Project, cell phone platform, One Laptop Per Child project, laptop computer, digital divide, Third World
- Discussion threads 2007-09-26
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- Macedonia rolls out 53,000 Classmate PCs
- And the OLPC?Seems to be doing well as well. Uruguay is finishing its distribution of laptops this year. For more info:Spanish:http://www.ceibal.edu.uy/index.php?option=com_content&view=category&layout=blog&id=96&Itemid=247English translation:http://translate.google.com.mx/translate?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ceibal.edu.uy%2Findex.php%3Foption%3Dcom_content%26view%3Dcategory%26layout%3Dblog%26id%3D96%26Itemid%3D247&sl=es&tl=en&hl=es&ie=UTF-8Contrary to what was said in some articles in your section back in '07. The XO is doing well, it has support, it has training and...
- Tags: Netbooks, nettops & MIDs, training and certification, Notebooks, Uruguay, Macedonia, Intel Classmate PC, Classmate, netbook, PC
- Discussion threads 2009-10-06
- Could One Laptop Per Child be a bad thing?
- Or roadsOr how about roads so farmers can get there goods to the markets cheaper? The one laptop per kid is such a scam. Why should kids get cheap laptops overs small business owners. Who would be more productive. Um track sales, write, write e-mail, do books. I am so...
- Tags: One Laptop Per Child project
- Discussion threads 2009-09-10
- News to know: Windows 7; Verizon; RightNow; Salesforce; Palm; HP
- 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. Ryan Naraine: Windows 7, Vista exposed to 'teardrop attack' Microsoft patches gaping Windows worm holes Firefox to run...
- Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Larry Dignan, Patent, Hewlett-Packard Co., Palm Inc., Verizon Communications Inc., Microsoft Corp., RightNow Technologies, Sam Diaz, Microsoft Windows, Linux, Microsoft Windows 7, Cable, Operating Systems, Open Source, Software, Telecommunications, Personal Technology
- Blog posts 2009-09-09
- China's 'secure' OS Kylin - a threat to U.S offensive cyber capabilities?
- China's 'secure' OS Kylin - a threat to U.S offensive cyber capabilities?Interesting! There is no way that you can start from scratch these days and have a usable OS in a reasonable time. Look how long it has taken Linux distros to catch up to Mac and Windows and they...
- Tags: Operating systems, operating system, OS Kylin, U.S, security
- Discussion threads 2009-05-13
- South Carolina's OLPC initiative: money well-spent?
- South Carolina's OLPC initiative: money well-spent?indeed well spentNothing dying about OLPC or olpc, upper or lower case. 1 million kids have XO laptops in 31 countries and 19 languages, with another million headed too them. The results have been nothing less than complete social change. If Rwanda can 20% of...
- Tags: One Laptop Per Child project, OLPC initiative, XO-2
- Discussion threads 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
- The XO-2 is going Embedded RISC? So will everyone else!
- Yesterday, OLPC project founder Nicholas Negroponte indicated that their next generation XO-2 will almost certainly eschew it's current x86-based design and move towards one that is based on the ARM, the most common embedded RISC architecture in the world. It's used in over a billion cell...
- Tags: RISC, Mobile, Intel X86, Mobile Computing, CPU, One Laptop Per Child Project, Chip, XO-2, Diamondville, Chipsets, Advertising & Promotion, Processors, Semiconductors, Wireless And Mobility, Hardware, Components, Marketing, Jason Perlow
- Blog posts 2009-03-13
- Will Microsoft port Windows to an Arm-based OLPC laptop?
- OLPC chief Nicholas Negroponte is hinting that the OLPC project is leaning strongly toward dumping x86 processors in favor of lower-power Arm-based ones for the next-generation XO-2 laptops. There's one problem: At least as Arm and Windows currently exist, a full version of Windows is unlikely to load on an...
- Tags: Microsoft Corp., Laptop Computer, One Laptop Per Child Project, Arm, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software, Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2009-03-12
- ETech 2009 Preview
- Next month, Silicon Valley welcomes ETech, the O'Reilly Emerging Technology Conference. In it's 8th year now, the hands-on confab brings together thinkers, doers and "alpha geeks" to demo and discuss disruptive technologies and business models. The overarching theme for the four-day event that'll kick-off March 9th is how the way...
- Tags: Technology, Cyberthreats, Manufacturing, Government, Viruses And Worms, Security, Chris Jablonski
- Blog posts 2009-02-25
- Freescale to use Android, ARM for $100 Netbook
- Freescale to use Android, ARM for $100 NetbookAnd, Microsoft will be left scrambling yet again. Have they already startedthe port of real Windows to Arm, or will they try to use Windows CE here.Fake business plan - Consumer snow job1) Save on license fees? Everyone seems to agree any MS...
- Tags: Netbooks, nettops & MIDs, netbook, ARM, Freescale
- Discussion threads 2009-02-18
- Is it possible to build a $20 laptop?
- The unveiling of the $20 laptop-the result of a major project involving the government, universities and the private sector in India-so far hasn't done much to clear up the mystery surrounding the ultra-inexpensive notebook. All we really know about the device is that it will have a low-power chip (it...
- Tags: Memory, Laptop Computer, Christopher Dawson, Government, Notebooks, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, John Morris
- Blog posts 2009-02-03
- OLPC laying off staff and cutting salaries
- OLPC laying off staff and cutting salariesthat's the price for working with M$OLPC should have steered clear of M$ and would have been a very prosperous organization.You can deliver the $0.00 laptop if it's running windoze.MS wins another extinguish.You can add this to the very long list of companies who...
- Tags: Operating systems, payroll solutions, One Laptop Per Child project, Microsoft Corp., Linux
- Discussion threads 2009-01-08
- I can buy a lot of netbooks for $30k
- I can buy a lot of netbooks for $30kOn the Acer Aspire OneThe Acer Aspire One is a good choice. I own one myself, and I like it a lot. However, I've some tips for you:- don't buy the cheap SSD version, but buy the version with a conventional hard...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows XP, Operating systems, UNIX, OPEN SOURCE, Notebooks, netbook, Acer Inc., SSD, Ubuntu, Amazon.com Inc., Linux
- Discussion threads 2008-12-08
- News to know: Storm; Holiday gift guide;Lenovo malware; Dell
- Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Josh Taylor: Hands On: The BlackBerry Storm Gallery: Up close and personal: The BlackBerry Storm ZDNet's 2008 Holiday Gift Guide: Top...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Larry Dignan, Dell Computer Corp., Yahoo! Inc., T-Mobile, Malware, RIM BlackBerry, VUDU, Handhelds, Home Entertainment, Hardware, Personal Technology
- Blog posts 2008-11-20
- Did Microsoft really kill OLPC?
- Did Microsoft really kill OLPC?It might be about time for OLPC to get out of hardware manufacturing, and,make sure that their software is easily adaptible to any x86 or Arm platform. But, looking back in 10 years, OLPC will be credited with starting a revolution that will have profound economic...
- Tags: One Laptop Per Child project, Negroponte, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2008-11-19
- More OLPC Give One Considerations
- It's the second day of sales for the OLPC Give One Get One program on Amazon; the site is still up and still claiming next day delivery is available (anyone who gets theirs in a day, please talk back below). I posted several musings yesterday on this latest effort...
- Tags: Amazon.com Inc., Laptop Computer, One Laptop Per Child Project, Notebooks, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2008-11-18
- Unemployed? Five reasons to build your resume with FOSS contributions
- Unemployed? Five reasons to build your resume with FOSS contributionsFOSS is okay for programmers, but ...not necessarily so for architects, DBAs, web designers, sysadmins, or other technical professions. And I view the American coder as being in the same boat as the American steelworker or autoworker. That boat is sinking...
- Tags: OPEN SOURCE, F/OSS, openSUSE, programmer
- Discussion threads 2008-11-17
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