Sept. 10, 2007
Intel providing OLPC with chips
Wired
Brian Gardiner makes us remember Nicholas Negroponte.
”What a difference a year can make. Intel has gone from being a direct competitor and outspoken critic of Nicholas Negroponte’s One Laptop Per Child Initiative to a key ally in providing low-cost laptops to children living in the world’s most remote and poorest countries.”
Cheap Motorola smartphone
News.com
Look what is being offered.
“J&R is offering this well-liked smart phone for more than a quarter off its usual price. The A1200, also called the “Ming,” does everything but pick up your dry cleaning. You can scan business cards and automatically add them to your contact list. You can view Power Point, PDF, Excel and Word files. You can take a video up to two hours long, write notes on the color touch screen, listen to MP3s or the FM radio, and, oh yes, make phone calls. Its smoky translucent cover is also pretty unique, which, in combination with its appealing pearl-red color, makes the Ming a great-looking and highly competent digital companion.”
Why are people fighting over Berkely Software
Tech Web
Sam Varghese has the blow by blow account of BSD verses GPL.
”For the second time in six months, a flamefest has broken out between those who release software under the BSD (Berkely Software Distribution) licence and others who release software under the General Public Licence. p>