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Interview: OLPC's Michail Bletsas Part 2 [of 2]

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2008-01-21 17:00:00 by Brian Heater in Gearlog
OLPC's Carla Gomez Monroy unpacking XO laptops donated through the Give One Get One program in Mongolia In spite of the initial nearly-universal acclaim of the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) project, critics were quick to point out what they perceived as flaws in the organization the moment that the plan became a reality OLPC has seemed plagued by...
 
Tags: market, market worth, potential market, nigeria keyboard, keyboard, amd inside laptops, laptops, low-cost laptop market, intel cared
 
 
 
 
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Does The Technology of Orwell's 1984 Really Exist?

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2008-02-05 15:49:12 by Rob Beschizza in Gadget Lab
We can't know what George Orwell, author of Nineteen Eighty-Four, would think about his old neighborhood being watched by dozens of cameras . It's not hard to make an educated guess But while the West is a society under surveillance, the novel's sinister technology goes far beyond CCTV. Science fiction, like Oceania, can tailor technology to an...
 
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Technosexual: One Man's Tale of Robot Love [Interview]

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2008-03-25 11:00:00 by Addy Dugdale in Gizmodo
Zoltan is a 33-year-old guy from Georgia. Average height, average looks, and not a rich man. He works in an arcade, where he fixes video games for a living, and still lives with his elderly parents. No wonder he was nervous about asking his slim redheaded girlfriend Alice to marry him. To make things more tense, she had split up with Zoltan at...
 
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Motorola insider: Zander and Brown to blame for Motorola handset division's failure

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2008-03-26 21:35:58 by willpark in IntoMobile
Motorola's up and split itself into two distinct entities . We now have the Motorola Mobile Devices division and the Motorola Broadband & Mobility Solutions division running as stand-alone companies. The breakup of the company follows a string of problems and setbacks related to losses in the mobile phone sector. Perhaps the splitting up of...
 
Tags: motorola, consumer devices, devices, handset division, mold motorola, motorola broadband, motorola stock, motorola investors, consumer devices zander
 
 
 
 
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WiMax Just Might Make It: Sprint's WiMax and Clearwire Officially Merge [Sprint]

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2008-05-07 13:41:18 by matt buchanan in Gizmodo
The massive WiMax joint venture expected to be announced today is official, though the rumored details were a bit off. Sprint's WiMax division is merging with Clearwire to form a single WiMax company called...Clearwire. (But Sprint will own most of it.) Happily, the clusterfuckiness factor is lower than we figured. Google, Intel, Time Warner and...
 
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OLPC Origins: US and Taiwan's Hardware Lovechild [Olpc Secret Origins]

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2008-08-27 12:30:00 by Wilson Rothman in Gizmodo
In November of 2005, Nicholas Negroponte and his OLPC CTO Mary Lou Jepsen traveled to Tunisia for the UN-sponsored World Summit on the Information Society, where they were able to present a "working" $100 laptop concept to Kofi Annan, UN secretary general. No longer did the machine rely on that pop-up rear-projection display; it was smaller,...
 
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Federal Trade Commission Clears Google's Acquisition of DoubleClick

2007-12-21 15:18:00 by Maximus in Just Another Mobile Phone Blog
 
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) today welcomed the U.S. Federal Trade Commission's clearance of its planned acquisition of DoubleClick Inc., a premier provider of display ad serving technology and services. Google announced in April 2007 a definitive agreement to acquire the company for $3.1 billion in cash from San Francisco-based...
 
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Apple's Piping Hot Innovation

2007-12-29 11:56:00 by Maximus in Just Another Mobile Phone Blog
 
BURLINGAME, CALIF. - Want a coffee with your iPhone Apple (nasdaq: AAPL - news - people ) Chief Executive Steve Jobs wants to patent a process that will save customers the hassle of waiting to order a cup of coffee at a local Starbucks (nasdaq: SBUX - news - people ) or a fresh burger at the nearest fast food restaurant. Even better: The...
 
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Samsung presents it's FESTIVAL Plasma TV

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2007-03-12 11:11:11 by Editor in Gadgets for boys
Samsung, with another "world's first The new "Cannes" Plasma TV is an absolutely new, or maybe not so absolutely, TV set from Samsung - probably the world's leader in electronics and in being the world's first manufacturer to always make world's first gadgets What does it have what other TVs from Samsung don't? Well, first of all, and I guess...
 
Tags: tv, plasma tv, tv set, samsung, samsung electronics, ultra daylight, ultra daylight technology, electronics, contrast