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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

OLPC's XO Laptop hits mass production

OLPC's XO Laptop hits mass productionAre there any orders?Or are they hoping someone buys them?Rugged, low power data loggerThis thing would make an ideal data logger for one of the projects that I'm working on. I'm going to try to convince my boss to purchase one.RE: OLPC's XO Laptop...

Tags: Uruguay, XO-laptop, One Laptop Per Child project, Milly, No_Ax

Discussion threads 2007-11-06

Administradoras de Fondos de Ahorro Previsiona

Uruguay's four Pension Fund Administrators - Republica AFAP, Afinidad AFAP, Union Capital AFAP, and Integracion AFAP - began operating in 1996. The company wanted to optimize the processes of individual accounts and investment portfolios of the administrations and modernize the administration outsourced information technology system. The challenges were to reduce...

Tags: Oracle Corp., Information Technology, Administration, Uruguay, Outsourcing, Workforce Management, Databases, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Human Resources, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management

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Fake 'Conficker.B Infection Alert' spam campaign drops scareware

Not much they can do.Not much they can do.Email was never designed for security, and it's HARD getting everybody on the same page with a solution that works, because basically every solution we know of pretty much requires everybody to use it. But, unfortunately, it's difficult convincing people running email...

Tags: Internet service providers (ISPs), Cyberthreats, Spam, Microsoft Corp., Conficker.B Infection Alert, spam campaign, sample message, Internet Service Provider, e-mail, Microsoft Windows

Discussion threads 2009-10-19

iNoticiero 1.1 (Mobile)

iNoticiero is an application that lets you keep up to date will all the latest and news from all over Latin America. The Cities covered include Belize, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Panama, Mexico, Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, French, Paraguay, Peru, Uruguay, and Venezuela.

Tags: Mobile, LucidOne Communications, iNoticiero, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing

Software downloads 2009-09-09

Nobleza Piccardo Centralizes Information and Improves Sales Transaction Times

Nobleza Piccardo wanted to establish a stable, robust database with a large daily transaction processing capability and centralize sales information to accelerate times for transactions and daily sales processing. The challenge was to improve operating efficiency in sales, logistics, and distribution to facilitate its relationships with tobacco distributors in Argentina,...

Tags: Oracle Corp., Nobleza Piccardo, Sales Strategy, Supply Chain, Sales Force Management, Databases, Storage, Sales, Business Operations, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Hardware

Case studies 2008-11-01

Fucerep Centralizes Information and Accelerates Response Times in Its Business Processes

Fucerep is a savings and loan cooperative that started operations over 30 years ago in Uruguay. Regulated by the Central Bank of Uruguay, it has four branches and 11,500 clients throughout the country. It needed to implement a robust, scalable, high-availability IT infrastructure to support the company's growth and centralize...

Tags: Business Process, Oracle Corp., Fucerep, Operational Planning, Business Operations

Case studies 2008-09-01

Robots working 6,000 meters below sea level

MercoPress, a news agency based in Uruguay, reports that German engineers are using an aquatic robot able to work 6,000 meters below sea level. This remotely operated vehicle ROV, dubbed Kiel-6000, is operated by the Leibniz Institute of Marine Sciences from the University of Kiel. The robot weighs 3.5 tons...

Tags: Carbon Dioxide, Remotely Operated Vehicle, Kiel-6000, Colin Devey, Robots, Emerging Technologies, Roland Piquepaille

Blog posts 2008-06-17

Is Stiglitz the official economist of open source?

If anyone may be deemed the official economist of open source, it's probably Joseph Stiglitz right. Stiglitz, 65, was a co-winner of the 2001 Nobel Prize in economics for work he did on the impact of asymmetric information. His paper said markets can be...

Tags: Patent, Economist, Open Source, Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2008-04-25

Freddo S.A. Unifies Information and Achieves Operational Visibility Throughout the Organization

Freddo S.A., founded in 1969, is a leading provider of ice cream in South America. Its name is synonymous with hand-made ice cream in the region. Freddo S.A. has 36 locations in Argentina, three in Uruguay, two in Paraguay, and one in Bolivia. It needed to implement a secure, flexible...

Tags: Oracle Corp., Ice Cream, Freddo S.A., Storage, Strategy, Hardware, Management

Case studies 2008-04-01

Gates misses the point on 'creative capitalism'

Gates misses the point on 'creative capitalism'It is not quite so black and whiteI believe in Capitalism, but it is in the interest of companies not to abuse their employees, and to try and provide a good environment for them. This does not mean providing foreign aid, but just...

Tags: U.S. Department of Defense, NASA, capitalism, creative capitalism, Charity Comes

Discussion threads 2008-01-25

Twitter, Qik, Mogulus: you're all dead

Twitter, Qik, Mogulus: you're all dead"Technology and its use"I shouldn't be allowed near anything without an edit button :)ahemMy point re: Mogulus was that it didn't do what was advertised on the Scoble tin ergo - dud. Ustream might have been no better. You guys know what I think about...

Tags: Qik, Mogulus, Twitter

Discussion threads 2008-01-08

OLPC campaign nets $35 million; 100,000 units go to emerging markets

OLPC campaign nets $35 million; 100,000 units go to emerging marketsYes, it was a GREAT program, and will get lots of computers into the handsof technical people that will help with the project. I would like to see it extended and continued. We would also like to see accessories such...

Tags: emerging market, One Laptop Per Child project, Intel Corp., computer

Discussion threads 2008-01-07

OLPC responds to Intel breakup

The One Laptop Per Child Project and Intel broke up their relationship recently. Now it's the OLPC project's turn to speak. Nicholas Negroponte, head of the OLPC project, said the following in a statement, after reports about Intel leaving the project: "We at OLPC...

Tags: Intel Corp., One Laptop Per Child Project, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-01-04

With Peru sale, is OLPC on the right track?

Things are looking up for One Laptop Per Child. After a boffo lauch to the Give 1 Get 1 program, OLPC has landed an order from Peru for 260,000 units of the XO laptop, The Boston Globe reports. The order had been expected for some time but...

Tags: Peru, One Laptop Per Child Project, Negroponte, Government, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2007-12-03

And more from the OLPC front

Ivan Krstić posted an interesting piece on his involvement in the first OLPC rollout. Mr. Krstić is the director of security architecture for OLPC and is on a leave of absence from Harvard to participate in this project. Obviously, a fairly smart guy. His blog...

Tags: One Laptop Per Child Project, Christopher Dawson

Blog posts 2007-12-02

OLPC: How do we gauge success? Will 490,000 units do?

OLPC: How do we gauge success? Will 490,000 units do?The reason for Give 1 Get 1Is to get a few tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands of people in the developping world spreading the coolness of the project around, and to get to decision makers in developped countries to...

Tags: Negroponte, One Laptop Per Child project

Discussion threads 2007-11-26

Negroponte's laptop finally in production

Those $100 $200 laptops from Nick Negroponte are finally rolling off the production line at Quanta, the Taiwanese manufacturer of One Laptop Per Child's breakthrough XO laptops. OLPC says Quanta is currently producing 15,000 per month but that those numbers will rise. ...

Tags: Laptop Computer, One Laptop Per Child Project, Negroponte, XO, Wayan Vota, G1G1, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2007-11-07

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

The world's biodiesel potential

Two researchers from the University of Wisconsin-Madison (UW-M) have ranked 226 countries according to their potential to make large volumes of biodiesel at low cost. Their evaluation of the world's potential to produce biodiesel shows that Malaysia, Thailand, Colombia, Uruguay and Ghana are the developing nations most likely to attract...

Tags: Researcher, Biodiesel, Roland Piquepaille

Blog posts 2007-10-19