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- First look: Intel's Moblin 2.0 Linux desktop for netbooks
- First look: Intel's Moblin 2.0 Linux desktop for netbooksThe menu for choiceI haven't tried Moblin myself, but your report sounds disappointing. Of course any interface should be application centered. What are they thinking?Maybe Intel could provide a choice during installation of Moblin, what kind of interface you want. Some Linux...
- Tags: Netbooks, nettops & MIDs, Wi-Fi, Web browsers, Moblin 2.0 Linux desktop, netbook, Intel Corp.
- Discussion threads 2009-05-26
- Pop quiz - Which would you choose?
- Pop quiz - Which would you choose?Pop quiz - Which would you choose?PC, I am not a vista fan, but for the money you get more machine for the buck with a PC than a Mac. RE: Pop quiz - Which would you choose?The last time I went shopping...
- Tags: Desktops, PRODUCTIVITY, Notebooks, Games, Operating systems, Pop Quiz, Apple Macintosh, computer, laptop computer
- Discussion threads 2009-05-21
- 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
- Open source enterprise software shakeout
- Open source enterprise software shakeoutNo shake out hereI see FOSS doing very well while M$ is 'shaking' thousands of jobs every quarter.The FOSS strategy is working!I didn't blog it because...I couldn't. I have too much skin in that game. But if you check Twitter, you'll see that I...
- Tags: FOSS strategy, open source project, open source, commercial open source company, Open source enterprise software shakeout, enterprise software shakeout, Sun Microsystems Inc., enterprise software
- Discussion threads 2009-05-08
- With Windows 7, 'Genuine' is out; 'Activation' is in
- With Windows 7, 'Genuine' is out; 'Activation' is inLess Onerous?? How About Less Frequent???I am sick of the weekly "Genuine Windows Critical System Update".Once my copy of Windows has been validated, leave me alone. Go away, stop harassing me!Product activation is the work of Satan. And the "Genuine Horse Hockey"...
- Tags: Operating systems, Microsoft Corp., piracy, Microsoft Windows 7, Genuine Horse Hockey, Microsoft Windows
- Discussion threads 2009-05-07
- What does open source community mean?
- What does open source community mean?Too much thought on companies.......not enough on individual efforts. I think some folk get too caught up in the business aspect of it all and forget the root. I use plenty of FOSS tools that are backed by no large corporate entity. They may sometimes...
- Tags: open source, F/OSS, developer, open-source community, joy
- Discussion threads 2009-05-07
- Kaiser testing tech to enhance medical treatment, privacy
- Kaiser Permanente is re-inventing the house call. Cisco Systems, as part of the RSA Security Conference in San Francisco, bussed a group of folks across the San Francisco Bay this week to tour Kaiser's Sidney R. Garfield Health Care Innovation Center - a former check processing warehouse...
- Tags: Patient, Privacy, Kaiser Permanente, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2009-04-22
- CRM 2009 - Companies to Watch For - Second Verse, Different Than the First
- Industry Giants -the New Adults on the Block Most of these might not be surprising to you but they are to me. With maybe the exception of Sage...and NetSuite....and RightNow and.....ah well. I guess they aren't really all that surprising. But to some degree, IBM and Cisco are surprising. ...
- Tags: Strategy, Application, NetSuite Inc., IBM Corp., CRM, Zach, Zoho, Advertising & Promotion, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Enterprise Software, Marketing, Software, Paul Greenberg
- Blog posts 2008-12-16
- $400 XOs and recessions
- The OLPC XO goes on sale through Amazon Monday via a redux of their Give One Get One (G1G1) program that turned into such a debacle last year. It's no secret that, despite my utter willingness to give props to OLPC for spurring an entire market of...
- Tags: Recession, Amazon.com Inc., Laptop Computer, One Laptop Per Child Project, OLPC XO, Notebooks, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2008-11-16
- Low cost is king
- Low cost is kingI have most of the gear to go with blu-ray... i just refuse to pay for it.So money is the big deal. Why pay for something thats slightly better when i have can use something thats easily transportable use in any device now , takes up...
- Tags: Sales strategy, advertisement, online advertising, Apple Inc., sales, Low-cost
- Discussion threads 2008-10-21
- Ballmer: It's ok to wait until Windows 7; Yahoo still 'makes sense'; Google Apps 'primitive'
- Ballmer: It's ok to wait until Windows 7; Yahoo still 'makes sense'; Google Apps 'primitive'It takes FIVE handlers for Ballmer?That's some load!:DVista SEMr. Ballmer ruminates on whether Windows 7 is Vista SE:Ballmer was asked why Windows 7 is considered a major release instead of just the second rev of Vista....
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Operating systems, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows Vista, Steve Ballmer, Microsoft Windows, Yahoo! Inc., Google Inc., Google Apps
- Discussion threads 2008-10-16
- The kids like Vista
- The kids like VistaWhy did you toss that in?You were doing well until you reached:Most kids have largely recognized what only a small number of adults have come to grips with: the OS is irrelevant. It's all about the web browser, folks. Google Docs, Zoho, and OpenOffice all work quite...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Web browsers, Microsoft Windows Vista, Web browser
- Discussion threads 2008-09-24
- New touch screen Classmates unveiled today
- Intel unveiled a new iteration of its Classmate PC today, featuring a touch screen with tablet mode, a new wedge design, and motion-sensing internal hardware. According to Intel's press release, “Our ethnographic research has shown us that students responded well to tablet and touch screen...
- Tags: Touch Screen, OEM, Intel Corp., Classmate, Accelerometer, Keyboards, Tablets, Monitors & Displays, Notebooks, Processors, Hardware, Peripherals, Notebooks & Tablets, Components, Semiconductors, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2008-08-20
- It's 1,100 systems and counting for open-source refurbishment advocates
- It's 1,100 systems and counting for open-source refurbishment advocatesIs the monopoly{s} fretting?!"The Installfest was "manned" by volunteers from the Linux and open source communities.""Why Microsoft and Intel tried to kill the XO $100 laptop""Microsoft, makers of most of the computer software in the world, tried to kill it with words,...
- Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, Semiconductors, open-source refurbishment advocate, open source, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2008-08-14
- 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
- Forrester: Vista is 'New Coke' in the enterprise; Firefox, Apple gain a little
- Forrester: Vista is 'New Coke' in the enterprise; Firefox, Apple gain a littleNew Coke?Actually, given the way it has been and is being sold, is it not the New Kool-Aid?With Vista selling so well already ...... as shown in revenues from the previous quarter, Microsoft can expect to gain substantially...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Operating systems, Mozilla Firefox, Forrester Research Inc., Microsoft Windows Vista, Apple Mac OS X, Mendel, Apple Inc.
- Discussion threads 2008-07-24
- Sugar coming to an EeePC or Classmate near you?
- Sugar coming to an EeePC or Classmate near you?Young children already can cope withadult operating systems - seen as an irrelevant hurdle to the nearest games websiteSure, kids can learn anything, but, that is not to say that certaininterfaces might be a lot better for them and facilitate learning. But,...
- Tags: Operating systems, EEEPC, Classmate, Sugar, operating system
- Discussion threads 2008-05-23
- Negroponte shows off amazing XO2 design - but will OLPC survive?
- Negroponte shows off amazing XO2 design - but will OLPC survive?do they have a prototype?It looks so cool and it will be only $75 in 2 years. Gate$ and Job$ must be turning green of envy!RE: Negroponte shows off amazing XO2 design - but will OLPC survive?This thing is fantastic,...
- Tags: Linux, Only Question, One Laptop Per Child project, Negroponte, XO2
- Discussion threads 2008-05-21
- Should Sugar be put out to pasture?
- A reader of the blog I posted yesterday ("Who decides which OS makes it onto an OLPC?") raised some interesting objections to the Sugar user interface originally developed for the OLPC XO laptop. While I'm not sure I entirely agree with him, it does give some food...
- Tags: Operating System, Computer, One Laptop Per Child Project, Microsoft Windows, Productivity, Operating Systems, Software, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2008-05-20
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