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- Negroponte's big lie
- Nicholas Negroponte is working nothing less than a fraud on international governments by washing his hands of support, deployment and maintenance issues. Those costs and tasks are shifted back onto OLPC's government customers, probably the worst possible candidates for an IT support organization. I talked yesterday with...
- Tags: PC, One Laptop Per Child Project, Negroponte, Nicholas Negroponte, Government, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-05-20
- XP on XO: Negroponte has lost his bearings
- At ZD's Hardware 2.0 blog, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes cites this quote from former OLPC developer Ivan Krstic about Nicholas Negroponte's rapidly shifting mission statement: In fact, I quit when Nicholas told me — and not just me — that learning was never part of the mission....
- Tags: Education, Team, Microsoft Windows XP, Laptop Computer, One Laptop Per Child Project, Nicholas Negroponte, Team Management, Management, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-05-16
- Sugar on Windows looking inevitable
- Now that Walter Bender has resigned from OLPC, Technology Review featured an article on the group's new president, Charles Kane. The article makes it very clear that OLPC, under the direction of Kane and Nicholas Negroponte, will definitely be seeking to deploy Windows on XOs and future products from...
- Tags: One Laptop Per Child Project, Nicholas Negroponte, Bender, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2008-05-04
- OLPC's Negroponte seeks truce with Intel and deal with Microsoft
- During a presentation at the Consumer Electronic Show this afternoon, One Laptop Per Child's Nicholas Negroponte didn't address the recent rift between Intel and his organization. Nicholas Negroponte and his baby, the OLPC Intel recently unhooked itself from the OLPC board of...
- Tags: Microsoft Corp., Intel Corp., One Laptop Per Child Project, Nicholas Negroponte, Dan Farber
- Blog posts 2008-01-09
- OLPCs to be dual-boot Linux/Windows machines? Why?
- Nicholas Negroponte, the head of the One Laptop Per Child OLPC is speaking for Microsoft again. Negroponte was quoted by Computerworld as saying Microsoft is working with the OLPC team on a dual-boot Windows XP/Linux XO laptop. Microsoft officials have not publicly acknowledged any...
- Tags: Microsoft Corp., Laptop Computer, One Laptop Per Child Project, Nicholas Negroponte, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software, Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2008-01-09
- Followup from Intel on the OLPC debacle
- Followup from Intel on the OLPC debacleHow can anyone support Classmate?The Classmate reference design is such a worthless piece of kit, Intel obvioulsy rushed it out the door 6 months after the first prototypes of the OLPC were released over a year and a half ago. Since then the Classmate...
- Tags: Intel Corp., One Laptop Per Child project, Classmate, Nicholas Negroponte
- Discussion threads 2008-01-07
- With Peru sale, is OLPC on the right track?
- With Peru sale, is OLPC on the right track?If the goal is to educate third-world children ...... by providing them access to the tools of the Internet, then Nicholas Negroponte shouldn't care whose hardware and whose OS these students use.Okay, then......neither should MicroSoft. What a ridiculous remark. Negroponte is obviously...
- Tags: One Laptop Per Child project, Nicholas Negroponte
- Discussion threads 2007-12-04
- OLPC finally bears fruit ...
- Yesterday, eSchool News reported: Mere hours after news broke that Uruguay's government placed the first official order for the One Laptop Per Child initiative's XO, or "$100 laptop," chip giant Intel Corp. announces that Libya has ordered 150,000 of Intel's own version of the low-cost laptop, the...
- Tags: Intel Corp., One Laptop Per Child Project, XO, Nicholas Negroponte, Marc Wagner
- Blog posts 2007-11-06
- Reality strikes Nicholas Negroponte
- Reality strikes Nicholas Negroponteoh well ... "OLPC makes its entry into India - finally!""OLPC makes its entry into India - finally!"But as things have worked out, OLPC has already made an entry into India in the form of a pilot project in a rural primary school in a village in...
- Tags: Linux, Operating systems, OPEN SOURCE, Microsoft Windows, Nicholas Negroponte, One Laptop Per Child project, primary school
- Discussion threads 2007-11-01
Additional Resources
- Talent development
- Earlier this week I attended Fortune magazine's Brainstorm Tech conference which "aims to sharpen the thinking of the very well heeled attendees about the escalating impact of tech-driven change for all business and global society". There was a terrific menu of topics on offer:...
- Tags: Talent, Collaboration, CEO, HCL, Workforce Management, Human Resources, Oliver Marks
- Blog posts 2008-07-25
- Microsoft finalizes Windows XP for OLPC laptops
- Microsoft has internally released to manufacturing the version of Windows XP that it has tweaked to run on the One Laptop Per Child XO computer. by Mary Jo Foley
- Tags: Microsoft Windows XP, Microsoft Corp., Laptop Computer, One Laptop Per Child Project, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software, Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2008-07-25
- Open Office sweeps Sourceforge awards
- The big winner? Open Office. It swept the awards for top project, top enterprise project, and top project in education. by Dana Blankenhorn
- Tags: SourceForge, Microsoft Corp., OpenOffice, Open Source, Office Suites, Software, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-07-25
- 10 essential gadgets for students
- I chose these from personal experience, but also from asking many friends from around the world who are involved in technology and study at the same time. Some gadgets come with a recommendation, whereas others don't; things like laptops and cell phones can't be selected for everybody, it'd be ridiculous...
- Tags: Headphone, Phone, Cell Phone, Laptop Computer, Lecture, Notebooks, Telecom & Utilities, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Zack Whittaker
- Blog posts 2008-07-25
- If Xen and KVM are free, why do VMware and Microsoft get all of the press?
- Xen and KVM, like other virtualization tools, can be used as part of a comprehensive datacenter architecture. One of the most important value propositions offered by both of these tools is low initial cost (read "free"). Depending upon the implementation (Citrix, Red Hat, SUSE, Virtual Iron, Oracle, Sun, Qumranet, etc.)...
- Tags: Red Hat Inc., Xen, VMware Inc., Microsoft Corp., Tool, Comprehension, Productivity, Data Centers, Open Source, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Dan Kusnetzky
- Blog posts 2008-07-25
- News to know: 'Spam king' dead; Microsoft's cloud; Dell;
- Notable headlines: Ryan Naraine: Escapee 'Spam King' dead in apparent murder-suicide CBS Denver Video: 'Spam King' Inmate Dies Along With Wife, Daughter Mary Jo Foley: Ozzie foreshadows 'Zurich,' Microsoft's elastic cloud Microsoft to get more 'Apple-like' in PC,...
- Tags: Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-07-25
- Escapee 'Spam King' dead in apparent murder-suicide
- Convicted spammer Eddie Davidson, who escaped from federal prison over the weekend, killed his wife and 3-year-old daughter before killing himself in what is being described as a murder-suicide. Colorado's 9News.com said the tragic end of the man known as the "Spam King" was confirmed by the...
- Tags: Prison, Sheriff, Internal Revenue Service, Attorney, Healthcare, Ryan Naraine
- Blog posts 2008-07-24
- Vista: Whose 'reality' do you believe?
- Vista: Whose 'reality' do you believe?Microsoft Search sucks.Now they are hijacking your PC to gain search share. Vista, XP, and anything else Microsoft is leaving this organization at every chance.RE: Vista: Whose 'reality' do you believe?This studies almost alway fail to note that XP's business penetration was no better after...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Corp., Forrest
- Discussion threads 2008-07-24
- We wanna be more like Apple - Microsoft and Ubuntu get ready to fire up the photocopiers!
- We wanna be more like Apple - Microsoft and Ubuntu get ready to fire up the photocopiers!Linux has no marketing.Market share is directly related to marketing. When is the last time anyone saw a Linux commercial?Isn't that the point?You say that Canonical needs to listen more to the "customers" but...
- Tags: Copiers, Operating systems, Desktops, Notebooks, Market-Share, Apple Inc., Ubuntu, wanna-be, Microsoft Corp., photocopier, Linux
- Discussion threads 2008-07-24
- 10 things your IT project manager never wants to hear
- 10 things your IT project manager never wants to hear#9 is wrongThe actual principal for #9 is the GFC principal, Good, Fast, Cheap, pick any TWO.In reality, a successful project blends all 3 to get a product with a reasonable level of all.Corollary to #10:"It's just what I asked for,...
- Tags: Strategy, IT Project Manager, information technology
- Discussion threads 2008-07-24
- 10 things your IT project manager never wants to hear
- "The dog ate my presentation." "We've decided to change directions." "I'm dumping this employee on you who has failed at every other thing we've assigned them." ... IT project managers have heard it all. by Deb Perelman
- Tags: Information Technology, Project Manager, Tools & Techniques, Project Management, Team Management, Recruitment & Selection, Strategy, Management, It Operations, It service Management, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Deb Perelman
- Blog posts 2008-07-24
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