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- $100 laptops for kids in developing world
- Speaking at MIT's Emerging Technologies conference Nicholas Negroponte announced detailed specs for his $100 computer, and said that his nonprofit One Laptop per Child is in negotiations with five developing countries - Brazil, China, Thailand, Egypt and South Africa - to provide the machines. ...
- Tags: nicholas negroponte, developing
- Blog posts 2005-09-28
- The Sarbanes-Oxley Act One Year Later: Its Effect on International Corporate Governance Reforms
- The Sarbanes-Oxley Act was a far reaching legislative effort to address corporate governance issues in the United States. It is considered a milestone in restoring confidence in U.S. markets in the wake of scandals such as Enron and WorldCom. This securities legislation has had major implications for corporate boards, audit...
- Tags: sarbanes-oxley act, world bank group, auditing, corporate governance, corporate law, sarbanes-oxley, free trade, regulatory compliance, business operations, regulations, government, financial accounting, finance, human resources, policies and procedures
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- Thailand's Troubled Tax Computerization Project
- In Februrary 1992 the World Bank signed a loan agreement with the Thai government to carry out a large and complex Information Technology IT project in the Revenue Department of Thailand. This was not an e-government application, as the project focussed on back-end computerization without any element of online service...
- Tags: world bank group, tax, thailand, e-government, free trade, government, finance
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- Interneer Case Study: The World Bank/PEER Consultants
- The World Bank Group's mission is to fight poverty and improve the living standards of people in the developing world. The World Bank was seeking an engineering firm to commence infrastructure-strengthening construction projects in Grenada. PEER Consultants understood that this project required software capable of making all documents, written communications...
- Tags: consultant, world bank group, free trade, engineering, finance
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- Dell now ships XPS and Studio notebook with Ubuntu Linux 8.04 factory installed
- Dell has launched an XPS and Studio notebook with Ubuntu Linux 8.04 factory installed. The two models are the Dell XPS M153On and Studio 15n. Dell "recommends Windows Vista Home Premium" for both of these models, according to the Dell web pages for similar models. Here's the quick blurb...
- Tags: ubuntu, dell computer corp., ubuntu linux, notebooks, blogging, hardware, notebooks & tablets, internet, paula rooney
- Blog posts 2008-08-07
- IBM: Linux in 2018?
- At the LinuxWorld conference in San Francisco, IBM executive Bob Suter talks about what a desktop will mean in the future, saying it will focus more on mobile devices like iPhones and collaborations across platforms. He then calls for better graphics designers in the open-source world to make them easier...
- Tags: graphics, ibm corp., open source, operating systems, software, linuxworld, ibm, desktop, linux
- Videos 2008-08-07
- Video: IBM: Linux in 2018?
- At the LinuxWorld conference in San Francisco, IBM executive Bob Suter talks about what a desktop will mean in the future, saying it will focus more on mobile devices like iPhones and collaborations across platforms. He then calls for better graphics designers in the open-source world to make them easier...
- Tags: video, graphics, ibm corp., linux, open source, operating systems, software, larry dignan
- Blog posts 2008-08-07
- Profits up, but margins fall at Lenovo
- Lenovo Group, the world's fourth-largest PC maker, saw quaterly earnings rise 65% for Q1, but profit margins fall dramatically. by Adrian Kingsley-Hughes
- Tags: china, lenovo group ltd., profit margin, adrian kingsley-hughes
- Blog posts 2008-08-07
- The Microsoft middle ground
- Microsoft occupies a middle ground between the vertically-integrated control of an Apple and the bazaar-like atmosphere of the open source world. Microsoft abandons that middle ground at their own peril. by John Carroll
- Tags: software, business model, apple inc., microsoft corp., hardware, tools & techniques, open source, management, john carroll
- Blog posts 2008-08-07
- More worries for Beijing visitors
- If you are headed to or already at the Olympic Games and you weren't worried by my Tech Tips for Beijing Visitors at the end of last month, maybe you should be now, In telling the Wall Street Journal's readers "Don't Forget About China's Dissidents," Ellen Bork...
- Tags: olympic games, hard drive, analysis, government, tom steinert-threlkeld
- Blog posts 2008-08-07
- UPDATE: MIT team working on $12 NES, not Apple II
- Looks like the Boston Herald got it wrong. The MIT group that was researching how to make a $12 computer for developing nations was actually working on a machine that's more Super Mario than Steve Jobs. Computerworld's Eric Lai discovers the truth: ...
- Tags: team, apple ii, massachusetts institute of technology, apple inc., productivity, wiki, team management, online communications, management, andrew nusca
- Blog posts 2008-08-07
- I went to Moscone Center and all I got was this stupid T-Shirt
- Where's the hot chicks? Yeah you heard it, Summer LinuxWorld Expo sucked. Again. No, I didn't go this year. In fact, I haven't gone in two years. So how can I say it sucked? Because everyone who I know...
- Tags: booth, trade show, webcast, linux, internet, rss, web site development, web technology, operating systems, software, jason perlow
- Blog posts 2008-08-07
- Has Dell lost its mind?
- Dell did not succeed in the 1990s as an intellectual property company. It succeeded by delivering precisely what buyers wanted, with bulletproof quality, at the lowest possible price. In an open source world these are still the keys to success. Not intellectual property. Precision, value, quality. by Dana Blankenhorn
- Tags: dell computer corp., word insanity, intellectual property, cloud computing, research & development, business operations, dana blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-08-07
- When IT culture changes with or without you
- Are you suddenly a bad fit for your IT department?Workplace culture is one of those terms you hear HR professionals, executive strategists and job boards throw around all the time, but what it means is generally less clear--and usually depends on who's doing the talking. HR pros often speak about...
- Tags: culture, information technology, strategy, management, deb perelman
- Blog posts 2008-08-07
- CIOs: We love video conferencing and online training; Enterprise 2.0 on the ropes
- Chief information officers have the hots for online training, video conferencing and collaboration software such as Microsoft's SharePoint. Just don't ask these execs to blog, use a wiki or enter a virtual world. That's the recap from a survey of 1,400 CIOs by staffing firm Robert Half...
- Tags: cio, online training, enterprise 2.0, wiki, online communications, larry dignan
- Blog posts 2008-08-07
- Google gives us the keys to insightful information
- If you are someone who can't get enough data, Google's new "Insights for Search" (which I'm sure will be renamed to simply "Google Insights" when they realize the current name is too long) is going to be a place that you want to visit. Google Insights for...
- Tags: google inc., advertisement, brand, tool, branding, productivity, marketing, garett rogers
- Blog posts 2008-08-06
- TSA vendor finds lost laptop, remains suspended
- Travelers who use the Transportation Security Administration's Registered Traveler program might be verified as good security risks but the same can't be said about Steven Brill's Verified Identity Pass, one of the TSA vendors that operates the program. VIP, under the brand name Clear, lost a laptop containing...
- Tags: transportation security administration, laptop computer, vip, notebooks, hardware, notebooks & tablets, richard koman
- Blog posts 2008-08-06
- The social media corporate identity crisis
- The recent "hijacking" of the ExxonMobil brand for Twitter use made a whoosh as the news traveled around the socialsphere. It also brought into view a lot of questions around brand validity and responsibility in terms of social networking. Joel Postman, principal of Socialized, authored this guest piece on the...
- Tags: brand, social media, twitter, joel postman, popeyes chicken, q., branding, social networking, marketing, online communications, advertising & promotion, jennifer leggio
- Blog posts 2008-08-06
- Oracle: Gimme an L. Gimme an I. Gimme an N-U-X
- Enterprise software giant Oracle is at LinuxWorld this week, positioning itself as head cheerleader for widespread adoption in the Enterprise. In addition to a keynote speech that discussed Oracle's position around Linux, as well as details of its own deployment, there were two announcements issued today. The...
- Tags: data center, oracle corp., linux, data centers, unix, operating systems, open source, software, storage, hardware, data management, sam diaz
- Blog posts 2008-08-06
- VMware launches new system builder, certification programs, joins Linux Foundation
- VMware is investing more resources in the channel and IT community -- and getting more involved in the Linux community -- to preserve its lead in the virtualization software market. At LinuxWorld and Next Generation Data Center Conference this week, the Palo Alto, Calif. virtualization software leader...
- Tags: vmware inc., system builder program, virtualization, linux, cloud computing, utility computing, storage management, open source, servers, hardware, operating systems, software, storage, paula rooney
- Blog posts 2008-08-06
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