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Chalana Perera

Xtra Ordinary Operating System for XO Laptop - OLPC News - 0 views

www.olpcnews.com/...ordinary_operating_system.html

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    IT background of the issue
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    IT background of the issue
Chalana Perera

OLPC For You and Me | Things Are Good - 0 views

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  • The cost of the machine has unfortunately increased from their proposed $100 USD to almost double that, in oprder to ensure that they can still get these laptops out to the kids they are selling them as pairs.
Chalana Perera

OLPC's Netbook Impact on Laptop PC Industry - OLPC News - 1 views

www.olpcnews.com/..._netbook_impact_on_laptop.html

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  • 1. Windows XP would have been discontinued in 2007 or 2008 as was Microsoft's original plan
  • 2. The Windows XP licence for netbooks was lowered to $30 per device
  • 3. Netbooks are selling at a rate of 35 million units per year and represent more than 30% of the notebook market and this share is increasing.
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  • 4. Intel's profits shrank 90% between Q4 2007 and Q4 2008
  • OLPC is going to make the PC/Laptop industry realize that there is an alternative to X86 for full sized keyboard/screen computing.
  • prices and market trends obviously do matter for the education aspect of the OLPC project
Chalana Perera

Microsoft and One Laptop per Child Partner to Deliver Affordable Computing to Students ... - 0 views

www.microsoft.com/...05-15MSOLPCPR.mspx

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  • Microsoft Windows operating system available on OLPC’s low-cost XO laptops for the world’s poorest children
  • The availability of Windows, in addition to Linux, on the XO laptop will allow customers to have an expanded choice of operating environments that best fit their requirements.
  • Transforming education is a fundamental goal of Microsoft Unlimited Potential, our ambitious effort to bring sustained social and economic opportunity to people who currently don’t enjoy the benefits of technology
Chalana Perera

The Fonly Institute: Problems with the $100 laptop - 0 views

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  • Distribution problems
  • Hardware issues – power generation
  • Hardware issues – mesh networking
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  • What if each child had a smartphone or a netbook
  • When they have, connection is too slow to work properly in class-time. Wireless signal it is not strong enough, so they can't connect from home
  • it has not been generally validated as bringing about new paradigms of child learning
Rafae Wathra

How does an online payment gateway work? (iSmart) - 0 views

www.ismartsoftware.com/...default.asp

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    Simplified version of the different steps to the process of a payment gateway.
Rafae Wathra

Google allows publishers to strengthen `pay walls' (Seattle Times) - 0 views

seattletimes.nwsource.com/...400992_apeugooglefreenews.html

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    Article is about how indexes search results, and how paywalls can be "leaky."
Rafae Wathra

A Brief History of Paywalls (Radoff) - 0 views

radoff.com/...a-brief-history-of-paywalls

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    Defines paywalls and explains their history thus far.
anonymous

FDIC: End to Identity Theft/Account Hijacking - 0 views

www.fdic.gov/...background.html

Portfolio2 CriterionB

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    This article presents the study of technology used to commit account hijacking and the methods available to prevent it. It gives a clean example of a phishing as a fraud email from Citibank. "The fifth method of acquiring the information necessary to hijack accounts is by inserting malicious software (such as a keystroke logger26), often referred to as "spyware," on a consumer's personal computer at home or on a computer used by many consumers in a public facility like an Internet café"
Rafae Wathra

Possible Improvement to NYT Paywall Plan (SVW) - 0 views

www.siliconvalleywatcher.com/...a_massive_hole.php

Portfolio2 CriterionD

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    A metered approach could be a better model for paywalls.
Rafae Wathra

How Paywalls Could Be Used to Spread Misinformation (SVW) - 0 views

www.siliconvalleywatcher.com/...newspaper_paywa.php

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shared by Rafae Wathra on 13 Feb 10 - Cached
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    Paywalls could lead to spread of misinformation because someone could report a source but others wouldn't be able to verify it unless they have access.
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