India Times: India showcases low-cost laptop to bridge digital divide
Submitted on Feb 05, 2009.
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 A novel version of the laptop, built by India's premier science and technology institutes and to be priced between Rs.500-1,000 Venkateshwara University (approx. $10-20), was showcased Tuesday in Tirupati town.
The low-cost device, developed jointly by the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Chennai, and Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore, for the human resource development (HRD) m ... Read More
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All UK homes should have access to broadband and faster download speeds by 2012, the government has said. An interim report on the UK's digital future also looked at plans for public service broadcasting. Prime Minister Gordon Brown said digital technology was as important today as "roads, bridges and trains were in the 20th Century".
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New York Times: Some Fear Google’s Power in Digital Books
Submitted on Feb 02, 2009.
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In 2002, Google began to drink the milkshakes of the book world. Back then, according to the company’s official history, it began a “secret ‘books’ project.” Today, that project is known as Google Book Search and, aided by a recent class-action settlement, it promises to transform the way information is collected: who controls the most books; who gets access to those books; how access will be sold ... Read More
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New York Times: Bringing the Internet to Remote African Villages
Submitted on Feb 02, 2009.
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Entasopia is the last place on earth that a traveler would expect to find an Internet connection. Yet it was here, in November, that three young engineers from the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, with financial backing from Google, installed a small satellite dish powered by a solar panel, to hook up a handful of computers in the community center to the rest of the world.
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New York Times: A New Symbol of Elite Access: E-Mail to the Chief
Submitted on Feb 01, 2009.
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It is now the ultimate status symbol in a town obsessed by status. Mr. Obama was spotted last week trying out his new BlackBerry — or actually a more sophisticated, encrypted variation — and aides say that he uses a computer in the study next to the Oval Office but that he has agreed to limit the number of people he would exchange e-mail with. In the process, he created a new measure for Washingto ... Read More
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International Herald Tribune: On the Internet, a university without a campus
Submitted on Jan 27, 2009.
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An Israeli entrepreneur with decades of experience in international education plans to start the first global, tuition-free Internet university, a nonprofit venture he has named the University of the People.
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Wall Street Journal: Intel Chairman Barrett to Retire in May
Submitted on Jan 27, 2009.
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Intel Corp. said Chairman Craig Barrett, the man credited with turning the chip maker into a world-class manufacturer, will retire from that position and from the company's board in May.
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Reuters: Intel's Barrett to retire as tech crisis simmers
Submitted on Jan 27, 2009.
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Intel Corp Chairman Craig Barrett, the courtly former academic credited with building the company into the world's foremost chip maker, will retire in May after 35 years at the firm.
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Two of the tech industries biggest champions for using technology to eliminate poverty in the developing world took the stage at the Consumer Electronics Show here on Friday for the final keynotes of the conference.
The message that the executives brought to the crowd at CES was simple: Technology is key to improving the lives of billions of poor people throughout the world. Intel Chairman Crai ... Read More
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In many countries outside the United States, the cell phone is technology's answer to the Swiss army knife, functioning as a wallet, personal computer and more.
In developing countries, they're also playing a unique role: helping improve health care. Cell phones increasingly are used to respond to disease outbreaks, educate the local populace about illnesses, and remind patients to take their m ... Read More
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A Massachusetts-based company is hoping to revolutionize healthcare in developing countries with mobile phone applications.
Dimagi, a for-profit company started by MIT Media Lab alums, plans to release a new mobile application called CommCare within the next two months. The application lets community workers refer patients for treatment, fill out questionnaires about patient health and send rea ... Read More
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International Herald Tribune: Writing the Web's future in numerous languages
Submitted on Jan 05, 2009.
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The next chapter of the World Wide Web will not be written in English alone. Asia already has twice as many Internet users as North America, and by 2012 it will have three times as many. Already, more than half of the search queries on Google come from outside the United States.
The globalization of the Web has inspired entrepreneurs like Ram Prakash Hanumanthappa, an engineer from outside Bang ... Read More
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MSNBC: Uproar in Australia over plan to block Web sites
Submitted on Jan 05, 2009.
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A proposed Internet filter dubbed the "Great Aussie Firewall" is promising to make Australia one of the strictest Internet regulators among democratic countries.
Consumers, civil-rights activists, engineers, Internet providers and politicians from opposition parties are among the critics of a mandatory Internet filter that would block at least 1,300 Web sites prohibited by the governm ... Read More
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This study commissioned by APC and written by wireless expert Ian Howard explores sustainable ICT and the need for wireless internet access for development (W4D). Intended to serve as a guide to members of the W4D community involved in African initiatives, Howard draws conclusions based on his observations of two telecentres in Tanzania with very different business models. Howard’s work is intende ... Read More
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UNESCO: Publication of practical guide to computer recycling
Submitted on Dec 22, 2008.
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The publication of this guide comes amidst growing concern over the impact computer equipment waste on health and environment. According to the International Telecommunications Union (ITU) and the Gartner consultancy, there will be almost 4 billion mobile telephones in use by the end of this year, while the number of personal computers has already passed the billion mark. The good news behind thes ... Read More
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