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One Laptop Per Child, or OLPC, or the XO, was a flop however you look at it. Instead of just making a cheap, basic machine that could tough it out in its target third-world market, Nicholas Negroponte’s supposedly $100 laptop instead chose to both patronize and confuse with an over-simplified interface. At the same time, as the price rose and dates slipped by, the Rise of the Atom put cheap netbooks within reach of anyone with a few hundred bucks.
Now, Nick’s back, with the XO-3. The new hardware (read: vaporware) will come in the familiar green and white livery, only this time it’s a tablet (surprise, right?). The XO-3 will be showing its 800Mhz, 8.5-by-11-inch face in 2010, when hopefully the technology will exist to build what is essentially a giant iPod Touch for just $75.
Move over Microsoft. Apple can claim big, big market share numbers, too. According to NPD, in June, nine out of 10 dollars spent on computers costing $1,000 or more went to Apple. Mac revenue market share in the “premium” price segment was 91 percent, up from 88 percent in May.
By the way, Apple’s command of the premium market is way up from first quarter 2008, when, according to NPD, Mac revenue share was 66 percent. Gee, and it seemed so high when I broke that story.
Microsoft executives had better study Apple’s success — and well — as they prepare to bring Windows 7 to market. The new operating system released to manufacturing today and launches on Oct. 22. But some people will get Windows 7 sooner. Microsoft might want to reconsider its marketing, too. Apple’s premium sales success means that from one perspective, Microsoft’s “Laptop Hunters” commercials are a failure.
Michael Arrington, founder of the influential tech blog TechCrunch, has been talking for a year about building a touch-screen tablet for Web surfing. Now, it appears that the CrunchPad is about to become a reality.
The San Francisco Business Times reported Friday that Mr. Arrington has incorporated a separate company called CrunchPad. Later on Friday, he told us he would hold an event at the end of July or the beginning of August to make a big announcement about the CrunchPad, and the tablet would be for sale “as soon as possible.”
Mr. Arrington is a former corporate lawyer who became a blogger — not exactly the résumé of a hardware developer. “I just wanted this, and no one will build it,” he said.
The purpose of the CrunchPad will be very simple: surfing the Web. Turn it on and up comes a browser. It is nothing more than “an Internet consumption device,” for reading, checking e-mail or watching video, Mr. Arrington said. It will not have a hard drive or keyboard, though users can plug it in to a keyboard if they wish. It will cost less than $300, he said.
Brian Solis, the “next-gen” PR dude, just got some hot shots of the Dell Adamo. Color us impressed. His photos show a laptop with the sex of a MacBook Air with a little more of the hard edged aesthetic familiar to those who enjoy cheese graters and shipping containers.
The ‘world’s cheapest laptop’, developed in India, was unveiled by Union Minister for Human Resources Development Arjun Singh at the Tirupati temple on Tuesday evening The laptop, jointly developed by several organisations, such as the University Grants Commission, the Indian Institute of Technology-Madras, and the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, will be priced at around $10 to $20 (about Rs 500 to Rs 1,000), officials said.
S K Sinha, joint secretary in the ministry for education, giving a demonstration of the device which is smaller than the normal laptop, said that it will need some more fine-tuning. He said the laptop is expected to reach the market in about six months. Arjun Singh had an interaction with the vice chancellors of the remote states like Jammu and Kashmir and Manipur to prove the point that the device will be able to bring about high quality networking among the various institutions of higher education and also increase the skills of e learning of the students in rural areas.
The laptop has 2 GB onboard memory with wireless Internet connectivity. To make it useful for the students, especially in the rural areas, the scientists have made it low power consuming gadget.
A collaborative team between the Indian governments ministry of science and ministry of technology will unveil a super-low-cost computer on February 3rd, as part of the country’s $10 laptop project. Specifications of the notebook – which is intended for education use – are unconfirmed, but unofficial sources suggest it will have 2GB of memory, both ethernet and WiFi connectivity, the ability to expand the storage and low power requirements of just 2W, all in a small, portable package.
What still isn’t entirely clear is how costs can be brought down to such an extent. Currently the price is working out to around double the budget per machine – still an impressive feat by itself – but a secretary for education in the Indian government believes that will change once it enters production: “At this stage, the price is working out to be $20 but with mass production it is bound to come down.”
I macbook sono i migliori computer per scrivere libri ?
Probabilmente sì, sono i migliori attrezzi da scrittura disponibili in giro
L’esperienza personale depone in questa direzione.
I primi tre libri scritti dal bloggante oramai molti anni fa erano stati realizzati con l’uso proficuo di un paio di laptop Mac dei tempi, si chiamavano Powerbook.
Poi vennero anni di laptop Windows. Poi si è ripassati ai Macbook. E ora si ritorna a lavorare su un libro.
For years, like legions of other professionals, Obama has been all but addicted to his BlackBerry. The device has rarely been far from his side — on most days, it was fastened to his belt — to provide a singular conduit to the outside world as the bubble around him grew tighter and tighter throughout his campaign. “How about that?” Obama replied to a friend’s congratulatory e-mail message on the night of his victory.
But before he arrives at the White House, he will probably be forced to sign off. In addition to concerns about e-mail security, he faces the Presidential Records Act, which puts his correspondence in the official record and ultimately up for public review, and the threat of subpoenas. A decision has not been made on whether he could become the first e-mailing president, but aides said that seemed doubtful.
For all the perquisites and power afforded the president, the chief executive of the United States is essentially deprived by law and by culture of some of the very tools that other chief executives depend on to survive and to thrive. Obama, however, seems intent on pulling the office at least partly into the 21st century on that score; aides said he hopes to have a laptop computer on his desk in the Oval Office, making him the first American president to do so.
Obama has not sent a farewell dispatch from the personal e-mail account he uses — he has not changed his address in years — but friends say the frequency of correspondence has diminished. In recent days, though, he has been seen typing his thoughts on transition matters and other items on his BlackBerry, bypassing, at least temporarily, the bureaucracy that is quickly encircling him.
Nell’attesa che Google rilasci finalmente la versione di Chrome per MacosX e Linux ci sono delle possibilità di cominciare a testare prodotti che usano Google Chromium kit Il primo è CrossOver , ma il più interessante per MacosX pare Stainless che è stato installato sul laptop del bloggante con buone sensazioni
Sono ancora versioni demo, ma servono per cominciare a capire come funziona la filosofia del browser minimalista di Google.
«Bambini mettete via il quaderno e aprite il computer». Questa frase verrà pronunciata ogni giorno dalla maestra, in normali aule torinesi. Perché da domani tre scuole elementari inizieranno a lavorare con un piccolo pc come se fosse un quaderno, un sussidiario, un album da disegno. Certo, i bambini del terzo millennio sono figli naturali dell’era digitale. Ma qui, per la prima volta in Europa, gli scolari lavoreranno organicamente con lo strumento informatico nella loro classe. Ogni ragazzino avrà in dotazione lo strumento da mettere nello zainetto, tenere sul banco e portare a casa come, appunto, il buon vecchio quaderno a righe e quadretti.
L’esperimento parte nella quinta elementare Don Milani di Rivoli (per tutto l’anno) e in due terze di Pavone Canavese (solo per il primo quadrimestre) ed è chiamato significativamente «un computer per ogni studente». E’ stato ideato da Mariano Turigliatto del Gruppo Consiliare Regionale «Insieme per Bresso», e ha come partner «La Stampa», che ha aperto uno spazio blog sul proprio sito per comunicare in diretta ogni passo della sperimentazione. Punto centrale dell’operazione è, ovviamente, la macchina, il «JumPc», un computerino tutto italiano costruito da Olidata, ultraportatile, leggero, studiato per essere usato come uno strumento didattico innovativo.
25 dicembre, 2009 
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