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Nigerian firm wins interim injunction against OLPC, asks for $20M in damages

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2008-01-02 14:33:00 by Nilay Patel in Engadget
...20M in damages, and has been searching the offices of OLPC-affiliated organizations in Nigeria for "evidence." All of this currently going down with zero input from OLPC's lawyers, but we're told the organization is preparing an "aggressive" response. Check the read link for an exhaustive summary of the case to date over at Groklaw Via CNet...
 
Tags: olpc, interim injunction, lancor, nigeria, exhaustive summary, nick neg, 20m, damages, offices
 
 
 
 
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Intel and Microsoft fund $20M grant to reinvent computing: where do you want to go tomorrow?

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2008-03-25 20:02:00 by Nilay Patel in Engadget
...20M grant to two universities to "start over" and develop next-gen computing systems based around parallel processing. The grant will fund Universal Parallel Computing Research Centers at UC -Berkeley, which is kicking in another $7M, and the University of Illinois at Champaign / Urbana, which is donating $8M of its own. According to Mark...
 
Tags: grant, 20m grant, parallel, fund universal parallel, nifty futuristic tech, real-time visual augmentation, current multi-core processors, virtual-reality facebook, comments
 
 
 
 
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Intel and Microsoft fund $20M grant to reinvent computing: where do you want to go tomorrow?

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2008-03-26 01:02:00 by Nilay Patel in
...20M grant to two universities to "start over" and develop next-gen computing systems based around parallel processing. The grant will fund Universal Parallel Computing Research Centers at UC -Berkeley, which is kicking in another $7M, and the University of Illinois at Champaign / Urbana, which is donating $8M of its own. According to Mark...
 
Tags: grant, 20m grant, parallel, fund universal parallel, nifty futuristic tech, real-time visual augmentation, current multi-core processors, virtual-reality facebook, comments
 
 
 
 
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Telematics Research Group: Pure portable navigation devices are dying

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2008-01-05 17:04:09 by dusanb in IntoMobile
...20M navigation-enabled mobile phones for a total of 50M units. Both segments will grow rapidly over the next few years but navigation-enabled mobile phones will start outselling dedicated PNDs next year Full release is available from here (PDF Related Articles at IntoMobile The beginning of the end for portable MP3 players Nokia 5300/5700...
 
Tags: mobile phones, mobile, phones, million units, telematics research, portable media player, portable navigation device, future, makers
 
 
 
 
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Gates and space-ace Simonyi gift $30m for giant telescope

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2008-01-06 04:05:00 by posted by Pantha in
...20m respectively to help develop the telescope, which Gates says "is truly an Internet telescope, which will put terabytes of data each night into the hands of anyone that wants to explore." The 8.4-meter telescope, which sports three large mirrors and three refractive lenses, will be built on a mountain in northern Chile and is scheduled to...
 
Tags: telescope, synoptic survey telescope, 4-meter telescope, internet telescope, simonyi, survey telescope, charles simonyi, refractive lenses, terrestrial bill
 
 
 
 
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Gates and space-ace Simonyi gift $30m for giant telescope

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2008-01-05 23:05:00 by Christopher Grant in Engadget
...20m respectively to help develop the telescope, which Gates says "is truly an Internet telescope, which will put terabytes of data each night into the hands of anyone that wants to explore." The 8.4-meter telescope, which sports three large mirrors and three refractive lenses, will be built on a mountain in northern Chile and is scheduled to...
 
Tags: telescope, synoptic survey telescope, 4-meter telescope, internet telescope, simonyi, survey telescope, charles simonyi, refractive lenses, terrestrial bill
 
 
 
 
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10 Sci-Fi Techs We Could Build If They Weren't So Damn Expensive

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2008-01-31 17:09:23 by Rob Beschizza in Gadget Lab
...20m a trip, isn't exactly a week in Tahiti. Hell, it's not even a dirty weekend at the local Lamplighter, as far as amenities are concerned A dedicated hotel? It makes a big difference who builds it: NASA managed to pork away about $50bn not finishing the International Skipping Stone, but Russia will complete its share of the project at a...
 
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Whats an iPhone? 14.3M Windows Mobile phones sold in the past six months alone

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2008-02-11 19:31:00 by Nilay Patel in
...20M WinMo phones sold by June. That's an awful lot of phones -- and with even hotter models on the way, we wouldn't expect to see these number slow down anytime soon Read | Permalink | Email this | Comments
 
Tags: sheer brutal volume, sales, hotter models, microsoft, past, winmo juggernaut, units worldwide, phones, strong performance
 
 
 
 
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What's an iPhone? 14.3m Windows Mobile phones sold in the past six months alone

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2008-02-11 14:31:00 by Nilay Patel in Engadget
...20m WinMo phones sold by June. That's an awful lot of phones -- and with even hotter models on the way, we wouldn't expect to see these numbers slow down anytime soon Read | Permalink | Email this | Comments
 
Tags: sheer brutal volume, sales, hotter models, microsoft, past, winmo juggernaut, units worldwide, phones, strong performance