OLPC updates bugs / solutions | Zero for Conduct - 0 views
OLPC Has A Network Problem - GigaOM - 0 views
The Theft Problem - OLPC - 0 views
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.
OLPC's Netbook Impact on Laptop PC Industry - OLPC News - 1 views
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1. Windows XP would have been discontinued in 2007 or 2008 as was Microsoft's original plan
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2. The Windows XP licence for netbooks was lowered to $30 per device
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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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Microsoft and One Laptop per Child Partner to Deliver Affordable Computing to Students ... - 0 views
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Microsoft Windows operating system available on OLPC’s low-cost XO laptops for the world’s poorest children
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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.
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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
The Fonly Institute: Problems with the $100 laptop - 0 views
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Distribution problems
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Hardware issues – power generation
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Hardware issues – mesh networking
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Google allows publishers to strengthen `pay walls' (Seattle Times) - 0 views
A Brief History of Paywalls (Radoff) - 0 views
FDIC: End to Identity Theft/Account Hijacking - 0 views
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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"