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Can Sun's mobile posse ease J2ME developers' woes?
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Bleak Outlook for Climate Change with Record CO2 output in 2010
After a dip in greenhouse gas emissions in 2009 emissions growth has rebounded dramatically to reach record levels in 2010.
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Negroponte: Turn tablets into a 'constructionist medium'
Nicholas Negroponte touts the importance of tablets at Mobilize 2010 in San Francisco. The One Laptop Per Child founder says physical books are too expensive, take up too much space, and are hard...
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Welcome to 2010, a year about nothing...
The year ahead -- SOA without SOA?
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Point-counterpoint: Is SCA the limit?
There's been a blogstorm swirling around Service Component Architecture (SCA), and Loraine Lawson has done a great job of summing up both sides of the discussion. To sum up, there are two points...
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Facebook Fallout: Is it time for Zuckerberg to go?
For the record, I've never officially met Mark Zuckerberg, founder and CEO of Facebook. But I've met guys who are probably like him. Young. Smart. Rich. Full of great ideas. And, yeah, probably a...
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SOA adoption trends -- what the data tells us
In response to a recent post that talked about corporate success rates with SOA, a reader issued a challenge to show the numbers behind SOA adoption. So, here is a summary of significant surveys...
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OLPC to laptop makers: Use our design
At the TED 2009 conference, Nicholas Negroponte says that OLPC's open-source hardware design will result 5 to 6 million new machines every month within three years.
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Driving SOA through a lousy economy
Dave Linthicum and Loraine Lawson have been having an interesting blogosphere discussion on the role of SOA in a down economy. Dave says lousy times will spur SOA; Loraine says SOA may see the...
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SOA adoption down from 2006: if so, why?
Are business leaders out to lunch on SOA?
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From steam punk to the future, and how to plan for it...
I've been doing a lot of reading, most recently 'The Big Switch' by Nicholas Carr. There are plenty of reviews of this fascinating work available - in essence this is actually two books. The first...
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Negroponte's big lie
Nicholas Negroponte is working nothing less than a fraud on international governments by washing his hands of support, deployment and maintenance issues. Those costs and tasks are shifted back...
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XP on XO: Negroponte has lost his bearings
At ZD's Hardware 2.0 blog, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes cites this quote from former OLPC developer Ivan Krstic about Nicholas Negroponte's rapidly shifting mission statement: In fact, I quit when...
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Intense (and really thoughtful) ranting from the OLPC front
Ivan Krstić has made his way into this blog before. As OLPC's former director of security architecture and one closely involved with their Peru rollout, his posts offered great insights into...
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Sugar on Windows looking inevitable
Now that Walter Bender has resigned from OLPC, Technology Review featured an article on the group's new president, Charles Kane. The article makes it very clear that OLPC, under the direction of...
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A thought about Utility Computing
The whole idea that some future world would see computing as a public utility originated with an off the cuff comparison between the reliability people expect utilities like the local telco to...
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OLPC's Negroponte seeks truce with Intel and deal with Microsoft
During a presentation at the Consumer Electronic Show this afternoon, One Laptop Per Child's Nicholas Negroponte didn't address the recent rift between Intel and his organization. Nicholas...
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OLPCs to be dual-boot Linux/Windows machines? Why?
Nicholas Negroponte, head of the OLPC initiative, was quoted by Computerworld as saying Microsoft is working with the OLPC team on a dual-boot Windows XP/Linux XO laptop. Microsoft hasn't (yet)...
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OLPC finally bears fruit ...
There are always unintended consequences and OLPC founder, Nicholas Negroponte, will just have to live with them!
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Reality strikes Nicholas Negroponte
From Jo Best, ZDNet Australia comes this little ditty: While the news that Microsoft is developing a version of Windows for the so-called "$100 laptop" has caused some consternation, One Laptop...
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