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- While I'm away...Kindlenomics and OLPC revisited
- While I'm away...Kindlenomics and OLPC revisitedit will soon be herethe forthcoming apple tablet will deliver all you wish for and imagine that: it will even come with a colour screen! and you will all not like it here at zdnet because it is not open!RE: While I'm away...Kindlenomics and OLPC...
- Discussion threads 2009-07-30
- NPR feature on OLPC - what went wrong?
- NPR feature on OLPC - what went wrong?Very simply put, It became a religious war....Software is simply NOT a religion.So the software religious community needs to learn to sleep with itself.In retrospect, the OLPC has changed the world. Sure, it has spawned anindustry that is more to serve rich consumers...
- Discussion threads 2008-08-27
- $60 router DD-WRT = high-end wireless router and switch
- $60 router DD-WRT = high-end wireless router and switchdd-wrt demoI've been running dd-wrt on a Linksys WRT54GL for about a year now--it really is true folks--high-end features.You can check out a demo of the web gui features [url=http://www.informatione.gmxhome.de/DDWRT/Standard/V23final/]here[/url].Nice article George.That's why I said it isn't worth using client-side...
- Discussion threads 2007-10-16
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- News to know: Windows 7; Verizon; RightNow; Salesforce; Palm; HP
- Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET’s around-the-Web tech coverage. Ryan Naraine: Windows 7, Vista exposed to 'teardrop attack' Microsoft patches gaping Windows worm holes Firefox to run...
- Blog posts 2009-09-09
- The new Asus e-reader looks a lot like the OLPC XO 2.0
- Dual touch screens? On-screen keyboards? Interestingly, this sounds an awful lot like OLPC 2.0, doesn't it? Since Asus whipped into the netbook market following in the XO's footsteps, that's hardly surprising. by Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2009-09-08
- ASUS low-cost touchscreen ebook expected by end of 2009
- XO-2Two pages, and one can function as a touch keyboard? Boy, that sounds a lot like the olpc's plans for the XO-2.display?I wonder what the display technology will be. Epaper is prefered for ebooks because it uses far less power than standard laptop displays. But the article says it...
- Discussion threads 2009-09-07
- Netbooks with Nvidia's Ion wait on Windows 7
- Try carrying a notebook in your jacket`s pocket.The main advantage of netbooks is portability. $549 - $599 for a netbook?HA!! What would be the point to buy one and not a notebook? I bought mine, the 8.9" Acer Aspire One, for $300.00. I thought they were supposed to get less...
- Discussion threads 2009-08-21
- While I'm away...Kindlenomics and OLPC revisited
- Since my wife is 6 months pregnant and my mom is visiting from Seattle, we've decided to take a night away while said mom watches the kids. As a result, you get one more repost. I'll be back tomorrow, recharged after a bed and breakfast getaway; it will...
- Blog posts 2009-07-30
- Don't hold off on summer purchases for CrunchPads
- Don't hold off on summer purchases for CrunchPadsI'm waiting...Just wait... the rumors are out that there's an Apple touch pad similar to the CrunchPad...I am in no way saying the Apple branded Crunchpad will be better, have more features, or be any faster. I can say it'll probably have...
- Discussion threads 2009-07-07
- Don't hold off on summer purchases for CrunchPads
- I have to admit that I'm completely intrigued by the forthcoming CrunchPad, brainchild of TechCrunch founder Michael Arrington. I asked this weekend if it would be an Ed Tech game changer, and, quite frankly, I think this has the potential to be the biggest thing since the OLPC XO....
- Blog posts 2009-07-06
- Apple snags Ex-OLPC security chief
- Apple snags Ex-OLPC security chiefCould it be that Apple likes to change the game?As Harry mentions everyone benefits from Apple's crazy ideas...even if you hate Apple and never use any of their products, you will benefit by what they do. No one else seems to be willing to step outside...
- Discussion threads 2009-05-13
- South Carolina's OLPC initiative: money well-spent?
- South Carolina is looking to revive the dying OLPC brand by providing as many as 50,000 students with little PCs. According to OStatic, In order to receive a laptop, children need to give a small monetary donation -- the project coordinators say a dollar or two...
- Blog posts 2009-05-13
- Clinton has new tech advisor but State-driven projects will remain ineffective
- Let me offer this background before discussing the arrival of Alec Ross as a techno-diplomat at State. In 2004, I spent a couple months in Uganda, putting together the Uganda Digital Bookmobile. Inspired by the Internet Archive's Bookmobile Brad deGraf and I obtained funding from the World...
- Blog posts 2009-04-06
- Tic Tac Files 2.2 (Windows)
- Three thousand years ago we believed that the Earth is flat board and that's why the Tic Tac Toe (XO-game) has been played at the flat game board. Since 20th Century we have new four-dimensional model of reality, which conceptual framework ads time in space-time continuum - that's why our...
- Software downloads 2009-03-30
- The XO-2 is going Embedded RISC? So will everyone else!
- Yesterday, OLPC project founder Nicholas Negroponte indicated that their next generation XO-2 will almost certainly eschew it's current x86-based design and move towards one that is based on the ARM, the most common embedded RISC architecture in the world. It's used in over a billion cell...
- Blog posts 2009-03-13
- Will Microsoft port Windows to an Arm-based OLPC laptop?
- OLPC chief Nicholas Negroponte is hinting that the OLPC project is leaning strongly toward dumping x86 processors in favor of lower-power Arm-based ones for the next-generation XO-2 laptops. There's one problem: At least as Arm and Windows currently exist, a full version of Windows is unlikely to load on an...
- Blog posts 2009-03-12
- The 7" Eee is going away? That's OK
- The 7" Eee really started it all for mainstream netbooks (if you don't count the OLPC XO) and it had some real appeal due to it's low price, very compact form factor, and incredibly light weight. All of these things made it attractive for the classroom, too, where little...
- Blog posts 2009-03-05
- Kindle 2.0: Give me a Classmate instead
- I've always wanted a Kindle. I read all the time and I'm always in the middle of five or six different books, utterly irritating my wife with the books I leave strewn about the house. I can only carry so many in my cargo pants, too (although the...
- Blog posts 2009-02-10
- More signs of OLPC woe?
- A number of outlets highlighted the removal of OLPC's "Give a School" small donation program from its website, giving rise to further concerns about its long-term plans in small markets. The Give a School program allowed donors to provide up to 100 XO laptops for small-scale deployments that have...
- Blog posts 2009-02-09
- Is it possible to build a $20 laptop?
- The unveiling of the $20 laptop-the result of a major project involving the government, universities and the private sector in India-so far hasn't done much to clear up the mystery surrounding the ultra-inexpensive notebook. All we really know about the device is that it will have a low-power chip (it...
- Blog posts 2009-02-03
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