Archive for July, 2007
‘$100 laptop’ now in children’s hands
July 31, 2007 11:54 am
Funblogging:
The concept now turns into reality! $100 laptop is soon to bring big smiles on the faces of pupils in rural South American hamlet. The five years old concept of $100 laptop project finally gets the green light to ramp-up production of this low-cost machine. This low cost machine is scheduled to hit the streets this October.
The concept took five years of designing, collaboration and innovation for bringing the $100 laptop to this stage and this has been a turbulent journey for One Laptop per Child (OLPC), the organization behind the scheme and its founder Nicholas Negroponte.
Some critics’ notion is that such a cheap device could not offer the technology or durability required to be beneficial. Others pointed out that the target third-world countries had more burning problems, such as starvation, dehydration and disease.
But for OLPC this endeavor is not a gift of modern technology, but [...]
Original post by funblogging
Funblogging:
The concept now turns into reality! $100 laptop is soon to bring big smiles on the faces of pupils in rural South American hamlet. The five years old concept of $100 laptop project finally gets the green light to ramp-up production of this low-cost machine. This low cost machine is scheduled to hit the streets this October.
The concept took five years of designing, collaboration and innovation for bringing the $100 laptop to this stage and this has been a turbulent journey for One Laptop per Child (OLPC), the organization behind the scheme and its founder Nicholas Negroponte.
Some criticsâ notion is that such a cheap device could not offer the technology or durability required to be beneficial. Others pointed out that the target third-world countries had more burning problems, such as starvation, dehydration and disease.
But for OLPC this endeavor is not a gift of modern technology, but rather [...]
Original post by funblogging
Funblogging:
The concept now turns into reality! $100 laptop is soon to bring big smiles on the faces of pupils in rural South American hamlet. The five years old concept of $100 laptop project finally gets the green light to ramp-up production of this low-cost machine. This low cost machine is scheduled to hit the streets this October.
The concept took five years of designing, collaboration and innovation for bringing the $100 laptop to this stage and this has been a turbulent journey for One Laptop per Child (OLPC), the organization behind the scheme and its founder Nicholas Negroponte.
Some critics’ notion is that such a cheap device could not offer the technology or durability required to be beneficial. Others pointed out that the target third-world countries had more burning problems, such as starvation, dehydration and disease.
But for OLPC this endeavor is not a gift of modern technology, but rather [...]
Original post by funblogging
The concept now turns into reality! $100 laptop is soon to bring big smiles on the faces of pupils in rural South American hamlet. The five years old concept of $100 laptop project finally gets the green light to ramp-up production of this low-cost machine. This low cost machine is scheduled to hit the streets this October.
The concept took five years of designing, collaboration and innovation for bringing the $100 laptop to this stage and this has been a turbulent journey for One Laptop per Child (OLPC), the organization behind the scheme and its founder Nicholas Negroponte.
Some critics
?? notion is that such a cheap device could not offer the technology or durability required to be beneficial. Others pointed out that the target third-world countries had more burning problems, such as starvation, dehydration and disease.
But for OLPC this endeavor is not a gift of modern technology, but [...]
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ManishK:
LG has dropped yet another laptop PC called R200, ruled by Intel Centrino Duo Mobile Technology based on Intel Core 2 Duo Santa Rosa Platform Processor.
The 12.1-inch laptop comes in black and white color with dual high-gloss finish and takes on normal 2.0GHz Intel Core 2 Duo 7300 CPU, Intel 965 chipset, 802.11a/b/g/n WLAN plus 1GB turbo memory.
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ManishK:
LG has dropped yet another laptop PC called R200, ruled by Intel Centrino Duo Mobile Technology based on Intel Core 2 Duo Santa Rosa Platform Processor.
The 12.1-inch laptop comes in black and white color with dual high-gloss finish and takes on normal 2.0GHz Intel Core 2 Duo 7300 CPU, Intel 965 chipset, 802.11a/b/g/n WLAN plus 1GB turbo memory.
There is no info about price and availability. Please scroll down for more images.
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Original post by ManishK
ManishK:
LG has dropped yet another laptop PC called R200, ruled by Intel Centrino Duo Mobile Technology based on Intel Core 2 Duo Santa Rosa Platform Processor.
The 12.1-inch laptop comes in black and white color with dual high-gloss finish and takes on normal 2.0GHz Intel Core 2 Duo 7300 CPU, Intel 965 chipset, 802.11a/b/g/n WLAN plus 1GB turbo memory.
There is no info about price and availability. Please scroll down for more images.
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Original post by ManishK
LG has dropped yet another laptop PC called R200, ruled by Intel Centrino Duo Mobile Technology based on Intel Core 2 Duo Santa Rosa Platform Processor.
The 12.1-inch laptop comes in black and white color with dual high-gloss finish and takes on normal 2.0GHz Intel Core 2 Duo 7300 CPU, Intel 965 chipset, 802.11a/b/g/n WLAN plus 1GB turbo memory.
There is no info about price and availability. Please scroll down for more images.
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AT&T Launches DRM-Free eMusic Mobile
12:00 amHands-on with AT&T’s over-the-air music download service.
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AT&T Launches DRM-Free eMusic Mobile
12:00 amHands-on with AT&T’s over-the-air music download service.
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