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- 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, Workforce Management, Outsourcing, Strategy, Databases, Human Resources, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Management, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management
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- OLPC faces 'vicious' rivalry in laptop market
- One Laptop per Child exec David Cavallo says the organization welcomes new entrants to the low-cost laptop market, but describes the response of some competitors as "unfortunate." When the One Laptop per Child organization first mooted the idea of a super low-cost laptop aimed at schoolchildren in the developing...
- Tags: Laptop Computer, One Laptop Per Child Project, Kid, Notebooks, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Natasha Lomas ZDNet China, OLPC, laptops, education, Intel, Atom chip
- News items 2008-09-17
- 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
- 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
- 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
- OLPC to run Windows? Say it ain't so!
- OLPC to run Windows? Say it ain't so!Death of OLPCYeah, "no comments" usually means "we're neck deep in it".This is very bad. The original $100 PC concept ends up as a $250++ Vista PC, filled with craplets, and so loaded with DRM you can't even print out your own...
- Tags: Operating systems, PRODUCTIVITY, UNIX, Microsoft Windows, One Laptop Per Child project, computer, PC, Linux, Business Software Alliance
- Discussion threads 2007-04-27
- Microsoft's OLPC coup and unintended consequences
- Microsoft's OLPC coup and unintended consequencesda pusha monI find it ironic that most of the world will really believe they are getting something for nothing or at least a great deal when history has shown time and time again that this company has little to offer in innovation and security...
- Tags: Operating systems, One Laptop Per Child project, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows, Nick Negroponte
- Discussion threads 2007-04-27
- Microsoft's OLPC coup and unintended consequences
- Microsofts move to make Windows available for $3 to emerging markets is already having an impact on Linux. According to an AP report, Nicholas Negroponte said the $100 laptop for kids in developing countries actually runs about $175. He also...
- Tags: General, Hardware Infrastructure, Innovation, IT Management, Linux, Microsoft, Open Source
- Blog posts 2007-04-27
- A tale of two handheld players: RIM vs. Palm
- This a tale of two well-known handheld device makers--Research in Motion and Palm--and their standing in the market. Both companies had investor powwows this week. Palm held an analyst meeting and RIM reported strong earnings.The biggest difference between the two? One, RIM, knows where its going and is...
- Tags: Research In Motion, Personal Technology, Palm, Mobile, General
- Blog posts 2007-04-13
- It's not what their losing, it's what they stand to gain
- It's not what their losing, it's what they stand to gainIrony, anyone?An article about students' lack of skills in "readin', ritin', and 'rithmetic"....that contains a misspelling in the title! ;c)(Psst...it's "they're" not "their"...)Doing the good now with the moneyYou saifd: "In the third-world, it's about where the money can do...
- Tags: XO-laptop, One Laptop Per Child project
- Discussion threads 2007-01-23
- Soon, children will get one laptop each
- After much ado, the One Laptop per Child project has announced that its $150 laptops in the hands of people in developing countries by July 2007, reports the BBC. Brazil, Argentina, Uruguay, Nigeria, Libya, Pakistan and Thailand are the first countries slated to receive the brightly colored laptops, now...
- Tags: laptop computer, DigitalDivide, Education Technology
- Blog posts 2007-01-02
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