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Eunice Vincent

It's Your Health - Safety of Cell Phones and Cell Phone Towers [Health Canada, 2009] - 0 views

www.hc-sc.gc.ca/...cell-eng.php

portfolio2 Criterion C

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    2009 article from Health Canada and the Public Health Agency of Canada regarding Safety standards related to cellular phones and resources concerning radiofrequency (RF) energy
Eunice Vincent

Can cell phone radiation impact human health? - 0 views

www.articlesbase.com/...mpact-human-health-950901.html

portfolio2 Criterion C

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    Microwaves from wireless phones are surrounding us! Have you been aware of this? Today cell phones have become an tool in people's daily life. It is no longer a piece of news that cell phones radiate microwaves that might cause diseases to human body, or bring potential harm to our health.
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

Portfolio2 CriterionC

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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.
Rafae Wathra

Rise of Paywalls and their Impact in the Past (The Economist) - 0 views

www.economist.com/...displaystory.cfm

Portfolio2 CriterionC

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    The article explains how in 2010 many news companies will turn to paywalls but also how some have worked effectively in the past.
Chalana Perera

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

fonly.typepad.com/...problems_with_t.html

SOCIAL equality IT SYSTEMS applications int systems IMPACT education ITGS Portfolio2 CriterionC

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  • Distribution problems
  • Hardware issues – power generation
  • Hardware issues – mesh networking
  • ...3 more annotations...
  • 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
Chalana Perera

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

www.thingsaregood.com/...olpc-for-you-and-me

SOCIAL equality IT SYSTEMS int systems applications IMPACT education ITGS Portfolio2 CriterionC

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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

SOCIAL equality IT SYSTEMS applications int systems IMPACT education ITGS Portfolio2 CriterionC

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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
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