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- Efficiency, sustainability, and digital natives accelerate paper's path to digital
- As people spend more time consuming information digitally at home and at work, reliance on paper continues to decrease. But how far are we across the Digital Divide? In 1975, George E. Pake, then head of Xerox Corp.’s Palo Alto Research Center, predicted that in 1995 his office would be...
- Blog posts 2009-12-04
- "Grandpa/Grandma Mode" for PCs
- Get off my lawnyou young whippersnapper.RE: As I'm about to setup such a device for my own mother (yes, she's a Grandma), it's a GREAT idea that I'm trying to figure out how to accomplish. One of the All-In-One PCs (HP, Sony, Acer) with Win7 Touchscreen and as few buttons...
- Discussion threads 2009-12-03
- Calculator-7 1.01 (Windows)
- The program Calculator-7 offers you the following possibilities: calculate using seven operation: addition, subtraction, multiply, divide, percent, square root, 1 divide to X; calculate total from clipboard copy data to clipboard from table or text and press one button; set decimal position (0, 2, 3, float) and round type (up,...
- Software downloads 2009-11-11
- WiMAX Business Case for Emerging Markets
- WiMAX is a standards-based broadband wireless access technology that can meet the challenges of connecting the unconnected and bridging the digital divide. Operators in these markets can deploy field-proven WiMAX networks that meet the affordability requirements of the mass market and experience a rapid market adoption for a winning business...
- White papers 2009-11-10
- Who is a Candidate for Desktop Linux?
- I personally do not fall into the group of people that can easily migrate away from Windows, but that doesn't mean you or someone you know can't make the switch. As I said in earlier post last month, the work that I...
- Blog posts 2009-10-11
- News to know: Twitter DMs; New Neutrality; Zimbra; Dell-Perot; Palm; Foursquare
- Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET's around-the-Web tech coverage. Michael Krigsman: Are Twitter direct messages safe? Richard Koman: FCC to announce net neutrality principles ...
- Blog posts 2009-09-22
- News to know: E-readers; Web OS and IT; VMware; Cisco
- Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET’s around-the-Web tech coverage. Dion Hinchcliffe: How the Web OS has begun to reshape IT and business Oliver Marks: Course Credits as a...
- Blog posts 2009-09-08
- U.S. national broadband strategy: Funding is the elephant in the room
- we don't need big governmentThe broadband has to be build by private businesses and everyone needs to pay to get it.The government should only provide incentives like tax cuts that are deficit neutral.And of courseAnd of course ZDNet is still pushing the crazy idea that broadband everywhere is inevitable. Somehow,...
- Discussion threads 2009-08-14
- Dumb wireless pipe wars: Google Voice coming to BlackBerry, Android
- Dumb wireless pipe wars: Google Voice coming to BlackBerry, AndroidTelcos are traditional 'divide and conquer' enterprisesJust make out that the separate services are actually intrinsically different, and charge accordingly.Worked fine when there were separate wires, but digital exchanges in the 1970s were naturally integrating the actual data paths.Now it is...
- Discussion threads 2009-07-15
- I can't wait for Google Chrome OS
- I can't wait for Google Chrome OSThe BlobWhat is fueling the growth of Linux?: The Cloud.Google tossing their hat into the PC O/S arena is symbolic of a number of things:1) An as of yet unmet need for efficient Client Cloud Devices (notice I didn't use the word Netbook) for...
- Discussion threads 2009-07-08
- Do we have moral obligations towards global tech education?
- [I'm in London and Cambridge this week with the Traveling Geeks.] Monday morning we met with Tristan Wilkinson, director for public sector for Intel UK Capital. His main interest is how technology can be used to improve countries' economies and improve the quality of life for people through work...
- Blog posts 2009-07-06
- Log on Learn: Ireland's Log on Learn Program Helps Older Adults Cross the Digital Divide
- At Intel the focus is not simply on the technology one makes, its on how technology can be used to change people's lives. For that reason Intel created a school-based program called Log On, Learn LOL, where teenagers provide one-to-one mentoring to help older adults become confident technology users and...
- Case studies 2009-05-01
- Universities should promote students' resumes
- With an ailing worldwide economy, job losses left, right and center, and an increasing difficulty to step up to the careers ladder, universities should employ more funding and better efforts into increasing their students' potentials; publishing resumes and curriculum vitaes on their own public sites. With websites...
- Blog posts 2009-04-25
- Is information technology management stuck in the 19th century?
- Is information technology management stuck in the 19th century?Is our culture holding us back?I'm thinking that one of the big challenges to moving forward with any information technology is cultural change. We've seen an amazing capacity for younger generations those in their teens and twenties today to be able...
- Discussion threads 2009-04-17
- Two Element Planar Dipole Array Antenna for Wireless LAN
- Off late, the demand for Broadband Internet Connection has been expanded. However, a lot of digital divide areas still exist. In these areas, the introduction of optical fiber and public wireless LAN is difficult in terms of profitability. As the countermeasure to these digital divide, the introduction of "Wireless LAN...
- White papers 2009-03-25
- Could Zeebo be the next OLPC?
- Zeebo, a low-powered game console that uses 3G wireless networks to download content and access updates, has been getting quite a bit of attention. Billed as the "fourth console" (after the Wii, Xbox, and PS3) and aimed at emerging markets, Zeebo is simply supposed to be a gaming machine....
- Blog posts 2009-03-24
- ICANN: Largest change to domain name system in history
- ICANN, the governing body for Internet addresses, today discussed global Internet address expansion at its 34th international public meeting in Mexico City, detailing "the possibility of one of the most dramatic expansions to the global Internet addressing system since it was created." Departing ICANN President and CEO...
- Blog posts 2009-03-06
- Is it possible to build a $20 laptop?
- The unveiling of the $20 laptop-the result of a major project involving the government, universities and the private sector in India-so far hasn't done much to clear up the mystery surrounding the ultra-inexpensive notebook. All we really know about the device is that it will have a low-power chip (it...
- Blog posts 2009-02-03
- Happy birthday to me: a $20 laptop?
- Happy birthday to me: a $20 laptop?Yes! India can do it.I think, India can do it, because of it size and manpower. They have done it for Mobile phone.India has the second largest cell phone users in the world and call charges are cheapest in the world and main thing...
- Discussion threads 2009-02-02
- Intel wants WiMAX to lead Obama's tech initiatives
- Last week at CES, Intel chairman Craig Barrett said that Intel would advise the new administration of Barack Obama to focus on wireless broadband and WiMAX in its tech initiatives. Intel has made significant investments in WiMAX technology, a wireless high-speed broadband technology that can potentially provide...
- Blog posts 2009-01-12
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