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Intel Classmate PC (9in.)
Reviews Intel has tweaked the Classmate PC to appeal to first-world schoolchildren, and it now offers an experience on a par with mini-notebooks such as the Asus Eee.
Tags: Intel Classmate PC, Intel Corp., Notebook, Computer, Touchpad, Display, Classmate, Webcam, software, hard drive
Bill Gates offers the world a physics lesson
Insight newsmaker In an interview, the Microsoft chairman talks about why he spent his own money to make a series of classic physics lectures available free on the Web, and shares on Project Natal, Google's Chrome OS and more.
Tags: Microsoft Windows, Business applications, Consumer Technology, Battery, Bill Gates, Science, Video, biology, teacher, CNET Networks Inc.
A laptop for every poor child
Insight Confidence molded from privileged beginnings helps Nicholas Negroponte sustain One Laptop per Child initiative and transform to date, learning for 900,000 children.
Tags: Notebooks and tablets, Development/design, Government, Leadership, Intel Corp., Craig Barrett, Bill Gates, India, One Laptop Per Child Project, Singapore
Why don't we want to pay our teachers more?
Blogs In March 2007, I got the opportunity to visit the Indian Institute of Technology in Mumbai. It was interesting to visit ...
A trip to the innovation Valley
Blogs This blog turned one this September and I'd like to believe that there are Filipino readers out there who regularly chec...
Bridging the digital divide in Thailand
News An IT initiative reaches out in the Kingdom under Royal patronage.
Tags: Web sites, IT training, E-learning, Student, Thailand, Computer, teacher, computer hardware, computer room, user-ID
Don't fear the Millennials at work
Insight perspective We've been told today's youngsters will create havoc when they enter the workplace. After working in schools, Richard Leyland tells a different story.
Tags: Web sites, Web 2.0, Human resources, Children, Morgan Stanley, motivation, Britain, teacher, social networking, London
Cagayan, my valley home is dear to me
Blogs The title above is the first line of the official anthem of Cagayan, my home province here in the Philippines. I've been...
Parenting young minds in Net era
Blogs Once upon a long time, in a far distant past, as a child, I used to pretend-play the role of a teacher. I would lock mys...
Experts: Chinese censorware carries botnet risk
News Green Dam blocking software has errors that could be used to build botnet and allow uploading of programs by an outsider, say University of Michigan researchers.
Tags: Security, University of Michigan, teacher, computer, Programming, spyware, researcher, private data, Web Site, Web
Corporate governance don't mean squat if flouted
Blogs The joke goes that, "it's only wrong if you're caught", so cheating in class or smoking on school grounds is only agains...
Symantec CEO is top US commerce secretary candidate
News Reuters reports that John Thompson is being considered as the Obama administration's secretary of commerce.
Tags: Security, Politics, IBM Corp., Governor, Commerce Secretary, U.S. Department of Commerce, Symantec Corp., CEO, BusinessWeek, New Mexico
Sugar interface, no OLPC necessary
News The one laptop per child XO-1 device's Linux interface is now available on a USB stick, to be used on "any PC or netbook", says its maker.
Tags: Linux, Notebooks and tablets, Open source, Fedora Project, Intel Classmate PC, One Laptop Per Child Project, USB Flash Drive, operating system, Linux Kernel, network
Intel Classmate PC
Reviews Aimed at students in developing countries, the Intel Classmate PC is an intriguing attempt at a low-cost notebook. We love the rugged design, but the small 2GB solid-state hard drive doesn't leave a lot of room for growth.
Debating Forrester Research: Service providers and failure
Techguide A blog post by the analyst, which pushes virtually all blame for IT failures onto technology buyers, may have provided a narrow view of the dynamics in project management.
Tags: Project management, IT project management, Forrester Research Inc., Project, Consulting, Michael Krigsman, IT Devil, software, CEO, knowledge
