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- The new Asus e-reader looks a lot like the OLPC XO 2.0
- RE: The new Asus e-reader looks a lot like the OLPC XO 2.0I have a Kindle 1, even though I think they got many things right I still have a long list of things they could improve upon. If book readers are going to be used for school or...
- Discussion threads 2009-09-09
- OLPC XO 2.0 to follow Classmate model
- OLPC XO 2.0 to follow Classmate modelOLPC XO 2.0 to follow Classmate modelI wonder if they are going to screw this up like they did the 1.0 version by charging quadruple the price and having linux on it. Something tells me not only will they screw this 2.0 version...
- Discussion threads 2009-01-30
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- 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...
- Blog posts 2009-09-09
- The new Asus e-reader looks a lot like the OLPC XO 2.0
- Dual touch screens? On-screen keyboards? Interestingly, this sounds an awful lot like OLPC 2.0, doesn't it? Since Asus whipped into the netbook market following in the XO's footsteps, that's hardly surprising. by Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2009-09-08
- No Apple tablet? Too bad, but not why you think
- A while back I wrote that an Apple Tablet, no matter how innovative or cool, would be a non-starter in education without educational content to drive adoption. Now we're hearing that it won't be introduced at Apple's September event, despite a nearly constant churn of rumors about its existence. ...
- Blog posts 2009-08-18
- While I'm away...Kindlenomics and OLPC revisited
- Since my wife is 6 months pregnant and my mom is visiting from Seattle, we've decided to take a night away while said mom watches the kids. As a result, you get one more repost. I'll be back tomorrow, recharged after a bed and breakfast getaway; it will...
- Blog posts 2009-07-30
- 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...
- Discussion threads 2009-05-13
- The XO-2 is going Embedded RISC? So will everyone else!
- The XO-2 is going Embedded RISC? So will everyone else!At a minimum, Arm will cause big problems for BOTH Intel and Microsoft.No, x86 and Windows will not die any time soon, but, low power, lower cost Arm will be hot in the netbook segment starting this year, and that cuts...
- Discussion threads 2009-03-13
- Kindle 2.0: Give me a Classmate instead
- I've always wanted a Kindle. I read all the time and I'm always in the middle of five or six different books, utterly irritating my wife with the books I leave strewn about the house. I can only carry so many in my cargo pants, too (although the...
- Blog posts 2009-02-10
- More signs of OLPC woe?
- A number of outlets highlighted the removal of OLPC's "Give a School" small donation program from its website, giving rise to further concerns about its long-term plans in small markets. The Give a School program allowed donors to provide up to 100 XO laptops for small-scale deployments that have...
- Blog posts 2009-02-09
- News to know: Microsoft's killer instinct; Google's blunder; Palm OS; Windows 7;
- 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 Jason Perlow: Why Microsoft's Killer Instinct Must Return Ryan Naraine: Google flags entire Web as 'malware' Google blames 'human error' for search...
- Blog posts 2009-02-02
- OLPC XO 2.0 to follow Classmate model
- In a wide-ranging interview with Xconomy, Nicholas Negroponte and Charles Kane OLPC president discussed future directions for the company after this month's major layoffs. The take-home messages? Last year's Give One Get One program was a dismal failure. With almost $20 million in marketing (most...
- Blog posts 2009-01-30
- Did Microsoft really kill OLPC?
- I posted a number of pieces Monday about OLPC and its XO laptop now for sale on Amazon in a reboot of the Give One Get One program, one of which declared that OLPC was dead. A year ago, that would have been worthy of a pretty serious flame...
- Blog posts 2008-11-19
- OLPC is dead...What Kindlenomics taught us
- Fellow ZDNet blogger, Jason Perlow, wrote a neat piece suggesting that, if electronic versions of most college textbooks existed, it wouldn't take many semesters for the average undergraduate to pay for the Kindle on which to read them. In fact, with a fair amount of arm-waving, it wasn't too...
- Blog posts 2008-11-16
- News to know: Windows 7's latest build; Ubuntu; Chip density; Tech economy
- Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: PDC coverage: Mary Jo Foley: Windows 7 pre-beta build: What's inside Jason Hiner: Windows 7: Five things Microsoft must do Microsoft: Expect Vista SP2...
- Blog posts 2008-10-27
- News to know: Windows 7; Patch preview; Office 2.0; Dell
- Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Ryan Naraine: Critical WMP, MS Office bugs on Patch Tuesday swat list Dancho Danchev:Malware and spam attacks exploiting Picasa and ImageShack Mary Jo Foley:...
- Blog posts 2008-09-05
- 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...
- Blog posts 2008-05-22
- News to know: Hactivists; XO-2 laptop; HP; Virtualization
- Notable headlines: Dancho Danchev: Pro-Serbian hacktivists attacking Albanian web sites Over 1.5 million pages affected by the recent SQL injection attacks DoS Attacks Using SQL Wildcards Revealed Ryan Naraine: Secunia finds 'highly critical' Foxit Reader Flaw Are you wary of...
- Blog posts 2008-05-21
- More vaporware from OLPC - Here comes XO 2.0
- More vaporware from OLPC - Here comes XO 2.0Possibly the deal isbeing made with Fisher-Price for manufacture and distribution. It certainly looks cheap and cheesy from the picture, with a color scheme reminding me of angry fruit salad.delusions of grandeurThe more I see and hear out of Negroponte's operation the...
- Discussion threads 2008-05-20
- More vaporware from OLPC - Here comes XO 2.0
- I'll believe it when I see it. The blogosphere has offered plenty of reports today on OLPC's latest announcement, a new version of the XO laptop unveiled today at MIT's Media Lab. It certainly looks like a good idea: take two 16:9 aspect ratio touchscreens, hook them together...
- Blog posts 2008-05-20
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