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Lynn Dee

XO-1 (laptop) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 0 views

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technology

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  • OLPC is funded by a number of sponsor organizations, including AMD, Brightstar Corporation, eBay, Google, Marvell, News Corporation, SES Global, Nortel Networks, and Red Hat. Each company has donated two million dollars.[6]
    • Lynn Dee
      Lynn Dee on 28 May 07
       
      If more companies were generous like this, think of what we could accomplish without the restraint of money.
  • The laptops will be sold to governments, to be distributed through the ministries of education willing to adopt the policy of “one laptop per child”
  • ndia has rejected the initiative
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  • Human power is planned, allowing operation far from commercial sources of power.
  • All of the software on the laptop will be free and open source.[30]
sleavitt

CorpWatch : General Electric - 0 views

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corporations natural_resources pollution

shared by sleavitt on 28 May 07 - Cached
  • sleavitt on 28 May 07
     
    It is very interesting to see how GE has benefitted from the US's war on terror. 90 percent of GE's nuclear power plants could discharge radiation into the atmosphere. It is responsible for polluting 78 Superfund sites, and is pushing the government to overturn Superfund legislation. Fraud and poor safety for workers are also issues. Why don't we see this on the ecomagination commercials?
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