Low-power computing: a tech guide
We examine a number of low-power desktops, thin clients and notebooks to find out which platforms are most suitable for deployment in developing countries.
We examine a number of low-power desktops, thin clients and notebooks to find out which platforms are most suitable for deployment in developing countries.
Organisations in the developing world will be the main target for the Linux distributor's three-pronged strategy around the desktop
One of the biggest problems the One Laptop Per Child program has is that it has no support plan. How do you sell millions of laptops to third world governments without offering to support them?
Distributing laptops to kids around the world was supposed to be a government initiative. But Nicholas Negroponte has largely failed to sign up any foreign governments to purchase millions of One Laptop Per Child’s XO laptops.
Software defines hardware, makes it special, makes it valuable, while hardware in turn protects software from the open source process.
Two colleagues develop Wi-Fi technology designed to work where sources of electricity are unreliable. Photos: Green Wi-Fi
What's behind Intel joining the OLPC project?
The fact is that the native operating system used by any piece of hardware is no longer the big deal it was even two years ago.
Traditional desktop security would improve beyond recognition if applications could be controlled to a point where they cannot access any part of the system that they do not need to, according to Alcy Infinity, co-founder of Timesavers International.
The One Laptop per Child organisation has pencilled in October for the production of its ruggedised device, the XO, and has orders for 3 million machines already.