Spammers outsourcing to India?
Some among us are inundated on a daily basis with unsolicited email messages. A client of mine receives no less than 300 per day. To untangle the legitimate messages from the not-so-legitimate email...
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Microsoft want in on the One Laptop Per Child project…
As acts of philanthropic, beneficent gestures go, the goal of One Laptop Per Child, “expressly [to provide a laptop computer] for the world’s poorest children living in its most remote environments” is...
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Assessing the true cost of One Laptop Per Child
What one man giveth, another man often takes with both hands. So while the One Laptop Per Child project might look like a winner right from the get-go, the long-term consequences could be hidden costs...
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Negroponte: Rich countries to buy laptops for poor
For such a well-meaning and competently managed project, the One Laptop Per Child program has managed to attract its fair share of detractors and critics. However, ideas abound if the OLPC project is...
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One Laptop Per Child not for sale?
Despite the idea of selling the XO laptop as a consumer device to the likes of you & me, Nicholas Negroponte, One Laptop Per Child chairman has since scotched the idea .. for now, anyway. As...
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One Laptop Per Child project hits 1m orders
The first million milestone has been reached reached for the One Laptop Per Child project. With the likes of Quanta Computer, the worlds largest contract computer manufacturer behind the production of...
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Intel Classmate PC versus OLPC XO
Those who’ve followed me following the One Laptop Per Child XO laptop computer know that I like the project. I not only like the project, I also like the product, too. Yes, some could argue that the XO...
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Negroponte on Intel against OLPC
Unbeknownst to me, there’s what appears to be a very good website dedicated to news regarding the One Laptop Per Child project. Interestingly, and fortuitously, there’s a recent feature regarding...
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OLPC Quanta leap in laptop price?
I tend to get some interesting search queries bringing people to my ‘blog. Recently, there’s a been a steady tide of traffic drifting in on the subject of the One Laptop Per Child project, and more...
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