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Chalana Perera

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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • Distribution problems
  • Hardware issues – power generation
  • Hardware issues – mesh networking
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  • 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
  • What if each child had a smartphone or a netbook
  • 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

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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

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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

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    Defines paywalls and explains their history thus far.
Jeff Ratliff

Vancouver's Programmable Lights (PBS ArtBeat) - 0 views

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    Participants can create a light display on the project's Web site, VectorialVancouver.net, where they will also find a virtual model of Vancouver. Users create instructions for a new night-time display by setting the angles and power of the searchlights. The information is then queued in a server that operates the robotically maneuvered lights. The searchlights quietly project a new image every 12 seconds. For those who can't see it in person, the entire show is captured live via four Web cameras set up around Vancouver.
Rafae Wathra

Business Models for News, Ebook Fever, and Search Engines Top the News (Information Today) - 0 views

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    About how news companies are searching for different models and the effects of paywalls.
Chalana Perera

Stimulus: Laptop for every pupil in Uruguay - 0 views

  • The total figure represents less than 5% of the country's education budget.
  • Linux operating
  • particularly those in rural areas, where many still do not have internet access
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  • some teachers have chosen not to include computer-related work in their lesson plans
  • last two years 362,000 pupils and 18,000 teachers
Rafae Wathra

Ecommerce Security Issues (E-commerce Digest) - 0 views

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    This article explains how online transactions can be protected.
Rafae Wathra

How to Restrict the Access to Your Website (Ezine) - 0 views

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    This article explains how to make portions of a website password protected.
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