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    0 starseric | Shared With: Everyone - Nov 08 2007 | laptop, olpc, computer, TED, Nicholas Negroponte
    TED | Talks | Nicholas Negroponte: The vision behind One Laptop Per Child (video)

    Nicholas Negroponte speaking at TED about the OLPC project.

    Quoted: TED Talks <p><a href="/index.php/speakers/view/id/38" target="_blank">Nicholas Negroponte</a> lays out the details of his nonprofit One Laptop Per Child project. Speaking just days after relinquishing his post as director of the MIT Media Lab, he announces that he&#39;ll pursue this venture for the rest of his life. He takes us inside the strategy for building the &quot;$100 laptop,&quot; and explains why and how the project plans to launch &quot;at scale,&quot; with millions of units distributed in the first seven countries. &quot;This is not a laptop project; it&#39;s an education project,&quot; he says.</p><p><strong>Contact <a href="http://laptop.org/en/contact.shtml" target="_blank">One Laptop Per Child &gt;&gt;</a> <br /></strong></p>

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    0 starseric | Shared With: Everyone - Nov 08 2007 | mac, apple, computer, shopping
    Machinist: Tech Blog, Tech News, Technology Articles - Salon

    This article argues that Macs are less expensive than PCs when you take into account the resale value.

    Quoted: Salon's Machinist, inside the tech innovations changing our lives. Read the latest technology news, blogs and articles from Salon tech writer Farhad Manjoo.

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    0 starseric | Shared With: Everyone - Sep 24 2007 | computer, OLPC, Nicholas Negroponte
    One Laptop Per Child seeks consumers' help - The Boston Globe

    The OLPC laptop will be sold for a limited time in November to consumers who purchase two - one for their own use and one for a needy consumer.

    I want I want I want! Seriously. Sounds like a great way to support a great initiative.

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    0 starseric | Shared With: Everyone - Sep 18 2007 | photos, apple, computer, iphoto, tipsandtricks
    Bettnet.com - Musings of Domenico Bettinelli

    How to setup iphoto to synch across multiple machines.

    Quoted: A Catholic blog by Domenico Bettinelli, Jr.

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    0 starseric | Shared With: Everyone - Sep 11 2007 | technology, research, computer, news
    Reshaping the Architecture of Memory - New York Times

    Reshaping the architecture of memory.

    Quoted: If an idea being kicked around in an I.B.M. lab is correct, electronic devices could potentially hold 10 to 100 times more data in the same amount of space.

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    0 starseric | Shared With: Everyone - Sep 04 2007 | computer, news, politics
    FT.com / World - Chinese military hacked into Pentagon

    Kind of scary that we're getting hacked by foreign governments. By the way, what in the hell is "aggressive vigilance?"

    Quoted: The Pentagon took down the network for more than a week while the attacks continued, and is to conduct a comprehensive diagnosis. “These are multiple wake-up calls stirring us to levels of more aggressive vigilance,” said Richard Lawless, the Pentagon’s top Asia official at the time of the attacks.

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    0 starseric | Shared With: Everyone - May 31 2007 | internet, computer, seattle, news, spam
    'Spam King' suspect seized

    Spam King arrested at the Harbor Steps here in Seattle. Yay!

    Quoted: One expert estimated that the man agents dubbed the "Spam King" when they arrested him Wednesday sent billions, perhaps even tens of billions, of e-mails a day.

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    4 starseric | Shared With: Everyone - May 30 2007 | technology, computer, email, notes, livescribe
    VentureBeat » LiveScribe lets the paper do the talking, and thinking

    LiveScribe is debuting a really cool technology tomorrow - a pen that tracks the notes you take while recording the audio. By tapping your notes, it will replay the audio at the place of the notes. Watch the linked animations of the concept in the article.

    Quoted: Updated LiveScribe, an Oakland, Calif. company, releases tomorrow one of the more wondrous communication features we've seen lately. It has ...

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    0 starseric | Shared With: Everyone - May 27 2007 | apple, computer, shopping
    Apple’s Lesson for Sony’s Stores: Just Connect - New York Times

    Go to the mob scene known as the Apple Store in University Village, Seattle, on any weekend. Then, walk across the parking lot to Sony Style. You will see the difference. The Apple Store is vibrant and attentive. You can schedule time at the Genius Bar or get assistance from any terminal in the building. Sony? I walked through there for 5-7 minutes and got no help whatsoever. When I asked a guy if I could use the Sony Reader on a Mac, he not only wasn't knowledgeable, he didn't offer to help me find out. Booo!

    Quoted: Apple has made retail seem ridiculously easy. But why hasn’t the Windows side of the personal computer business figured it out?

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    0 starseric | Shared With: Everyone - Apr 02 2007 | microsoft, computer, DRM, copyright, toread
    A Cost Analysis of Windows Vista Content Protection

    This looks like an outstanding piece of work on what DRM costs the implementer. I need to scratch out some time to take a read through it.

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