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Eee PC could rock Microsoft if it got out of Geeksville
via Asus Eee News, Mods, and Hacks by xujiren on January 16, 2008
The Test Bed is reporting that Becta, the UK agency for schools IT, has recommended schools and other educational institutions to look at alternatives, including open source, before signing expensive contracts with Microsoft to upgrade to Vista or Office 2007. It estimates it would cost an average secondary school some £26,000 to up
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Clearwire to Migrate to Google Apps (at Seeking Alpha)
via Yahoo! Finance: GOOG News by (author unknown) on January 15, 2008
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The Economist Debate on Social "Networking"
via apophenia by zephoria on January 16, 2008
The Economist is doing an "Oxford-style debate" on the following proposition: "Social networking technologies will bring large [positive] changes to educational methods, in and out of the classroom"Given that MySpace and Facebook are ubiquitous, can social networking be defined as the "collective pow
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Jobs Pulls A (Thin) Laptop Out Of The Air
via Forbes.com: Most popular stories by Brian Caulfield on January 16, 2008
A new, light laptop! Movies to rent! And ways to keep all that data backed up--on your Mac, of course!
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News: Apple Unveils Green Ultrathin Laptop
via Scientific American - Technology & Innovation by (author unknown) on January 15, 2008
Apple today debuted its new très trim MacBook Air that is not only thin enough to slip inside a manila envelope but was made without many of the environmentally harmful chemical compounds used in older PCs.
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Alternative Search Engines & the Subjective Web
via Alt Search Engines by Charles Knight on January 15, 2008
The history of Internet led us through roughly 6 different stages reflected by the contents found in the World Wide Web:* 1993-1995: most of the content to be found in the Web was from universitarian and scientific origin,* 1995-1997: then came the era of personal webpages indexed by the first portals and search engines,* 1997-1999: corporate websites and webmerchants started to
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OLPC Project Extends to American Students
via Asus Eee News, Mods, and Hacks by xujiren on January 16, 2008
From PC World -The OLPC foundation plans to launch OLPC America this year to distribute its XO laptop to needy students in the United States.OLPC's original aim was to develop a $100 laptop for kids in poor nations to ensure they don't miss out on the benefits of computing
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Befriend APML -- the new markup for social profiles - Strategy - Future Tech - Builder AU
via APML Updates by ChrisSaad on January 16, 2008
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Shared database MetaWeb gets $42M boost
via Buzztracker.com by (author unknown) on January 15, 2008
January 14, 2008VentureBeat / Matt MarshallMetaweb Technologies, the San Francisco company developing an open shared database called Freebase to store and edit the world’s information, has just gotten a big boost from Benchmark Capital a ...Discussions:BlogForward : Money: Shared database MetaWeb gets $42M boostpaidCon
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Trulia Passes Zillow in Online Real Estate Race
via Mashable! by Adam Ostrow on January 15, 2008
Despite a fairly dismal housing market in the US, venture capital has flowed freely into online real estate startups. Zillow has taken in a massive $87 million in total financing, while rival Trulia has pulled in $18 million to pursue the m
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