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- Before Google Books, we took on-demand publishing to the streets
- Different plans for different worlds?What's needed here is for Google to have different business plans/models for different worlds. Clearly a first world business plan like what they have now is not sutiable for the third world. A third world business plan of free as in beer books would not be...
- Tags: Google Inc., Third World, public domain, on-demand
- Discussion threads 2009-09-18
- ERP Implementation: A Complete Guide
- ERP implementations in the South Asian countries, are comparatively different, harder and financially very expensive than the other parts of the worlds. This is because of different socio-economic conditions, working style of businesses, their operation methods and low currency comparative to international currencies. Most of the well renowned ERP solutions...
- Tags: Third World, ERP, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Enterprise Software, Software
- White papers 2009-09-14
- "No more free bugs"? There never were any free bugs
- "No more free bugs"? There never were any free bugsActually, many bugs were free bugsIn that the people who found them reported them to the person who made the software with no intention of ever getting paid for them, thinking that they were doing a service.When they realized that...
- Tags: free bug
- Discussion threads 2009-03-24
- OLPC to laptop makers: Use our design
- OLPC to laptop makers: Use our designRE: Hey Open Source come back -- Use our design"Bill Gates told CNET News that the "OLPC hasn't done that well" ..."Hence no ROI."... --the group said that it would be working with Microsoft to make a Windows variety of its XO laptop, ..."Anticipation...
- Tags: laptop computer, Third World, One Laptop Per Child project, third world country
- Discussion threads 2009-02-09
- More OLPC Give One Considerations
- More OLPC Give One ConsiderationsDue to Netbooks the OLPC program is deadWhy anyone would go for the "give one and get one" program anymore is beyond me.I am not saying that it is not a good thing to support the program by paying $199 for the program to deliver one...
- Tags: One Laptop Per Child project, OLPC Give, Netbooks, Third World
- Discussion threads 2008-11-19
- GM, Chrysler, and one specific IT Job
- GM just announced a huge loss, Toyota's American operation is in financial trouble, Chrysler is thought to be the worst off of the them all - what's really causing this, what can be done to help, and who's job is at risk? Roger's job - and in this context we...
- Tags: Automobile Company, Chrysler LLC, General Motors Corp., Human Resources, Information Technology, Job, Manufacturing, Paul Murphy, Recruitment & Selection, Third World, Vehicle, Workforce Management
- Blog posts 2008-11-08
- Life without the Internet: Zapped off the grid
- Life without the Internet: Zapped off the grid...."[B]But - it does show that maybe we're a bit too dependent on our devices and that we can be a bit too caught up in the technology of the day.[/B]"That's part of the lesson and the rest of your post is dead...
- Tags: Engineering, MAKE SURE, phone book, Zapped off-the-grid, Third World, phone, Internet
- Discussion threads 2008-08-20
- "Can we use those $100 laptops?"
- As I was pitching my largely Mac-based tech refresh proposal tonight to the financial powers that be in our town, one member of the finance committee asked, "Have you heard of the laptops going to third world countries? Can we use those $100 laptops?" Oh boy. ...
- Tags: Apple Macintosh, Third World, $100 Laptop, Computing, Laptop Computer, One Laptop Per Child Project, Linux, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2008-01-16
- OLPC: the best designed notebook in the world
- OLPC: the best designed notebook in the worldYou know, I was thingking the same thing. The OLPC would be great forschools right here in the good old US of A. I would think they should hire somebody to sell the idea to schools HERE. If we get a critical mass...
- Tags: Behar, notebook, Design Continuum, One Laptop Per Child project, Third World, computer
- Discussion threads 2007-12-19
- Will you G1G1?
- Will you G1G1?You already know the answer, Chris ...The Intel Classmate is a better solution. Besides, rather than G1G1, the BETTER choice is to just send OLPC $400 and deduct it from your federal taxes. If you believe in OLPC, that is the right answer. If you...
- Tags: One Laptop Per Child project, G1G1, Classmate PC, Intel Classmate
- Discussion threads 2007-11-13
- Microsoft's 'multipoint' tech for emerging markets
- To bring technology to emerging markets, Microsoft has an ongoing project called Unlimited Potential. CNET News.com's Ina Fried sat down with Microsoft VP Will Poole to discuss what the project's new "multipoint" technology is doing to help address the problems of having just one computer for a large classroom.
- Tags: Microsoft Corp., News.com, Marketing Research, Financial Services, microsoft, will poole, unlimited potential, multipoint, emerging markets, emerging segments, third world, cell, mobile, cellular, phone, computer, pc, Emerging Market, Marketing
- Videos 2007-10-10
- OLPC is the PC you can't ever criticize
- OLPC is the PC you can't ever criticizePlease, this is all about your bruised ego - Give it a break move on -NT!NTHaven't you learned yet?George I would have thought that you would have learned by now that certain subjects just cannot be criticised, OLPC, Apple, Peter Gutmann etc :)This...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows, PC, One Laptop Per Child project, Microsoft Corp., Third World, laptop computer
- Discussion threads 2007-10-09
- 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
- Intel Inside the OLPC
- Intel Inside the OLPCMaybe Intel realized that they were getting bad publicity, AND, if thisidea takes off, they too can take part in the market even though AMD is in the first version. This way, Intel will have complete access to all of the SAME software components, and could build...
- Tags: One Laptop Per Child project, Intel Corp., embrace, Third World
- Discussion threads 2007-07-13
- Is the $3 Winsdows/Office bundle too good to resist? It is when you throw in a cheap PC
- Is the $3 Winsdows/Office bundle too good to resist? It is when you throw in a cheap PCwhen is a $50 computer not enough?We need to put on our third world context to fully understand this situation. First, you need to get the $50 computer to the intended people....
- Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, Microsoft Corp., Third World, computer
- Discussion threads 2007-04-19
- Want one of Negroponte's laptops? Buy two and you can have one
- Want one of Negroponte's laptops? Buy two and you can have oneNot true at allRead this: http://news.zdnet.co.uk/hardware/0,1000000091,39285426,00.htmNegroponte's ddenied the story and the BBC retracted it. It would go completely contrary to what Negroponte's said before, that letting it be acceptable to have an XO laptop, if you're not a third...
- Tags: Notebooks, Wi-Fi, laptop computer, Negroponte, Third World, wireless networking
- Discussion threads 2007-01-12
- E-mail scammers face European crackdown
- E-mail scammers face European crackdownOnce Again....Once again, there is no mention that the US will engage the email and other scammers who prey on the unwary by joining forces with others or by themselves. Our government is run by business so any business is good as long as the rich...
- Tags: Government, Free trade, scammer, exchange rate, Third World, e-mail
- Discussion threads 2007-01-03
- Open source issues for 2007 start with the profit motive
- Open source issues for 2007 start with the profit motiveThere's profit, and then there's profitToo many of us have grown up in times where a land-rush market managed to keep competition from doing Adam Smith's work, with the result that "profit" has come to mean Microsoftian margins to them.I can...
- Tags: Linux, open source, Third World, tool
- Discussion threads 2006-12-19
- OLPC 1 (OLPC Images)
- OLPC 1 OLPC ImagesWow...I can't even express how stupid this concept is. Let's give a scaled down crap computer to someone that doesn't even have indoor plumbing or electricity instead of giving them food and medicine...or water filtration...or any other host of things that would do them more good.Narrow and...
- Tags: Free trade, Now Let, Today most people, One Laptop Per Child project, Third World
- Discussion threads 2006-11-23
- Third World VoIP blocking has the stench of corruption
- Third World VoIP blocking has the stench of corruptionThere is a Solution to VoIP BlockingYou can't blame the government owned/alligned telco's for protecting their interests. Especially if their behavior is legal/sanctioned in their regime (in many countries, the revenue from International calling supports the local telephone system).But, you can...
- Tags: Internet service providers (ISPs), Telephony, TELECOMMUNICATIONS, Third World VoIP, stench, blocker, Third World, VoIP
- Discussion threads 2006-10-03
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