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Behind the Scenes: Next Gen Mobile Technology
Blog With infrastructure speeds continually improving at the network level of the world’s leading mobile telecommunications companies, the realities of “the third screen” are becoming more realistic. The reality is that handsets are steadily becoming...
[July 5, 2009, 19:42]
UN examines potential Net regulation role
News Backing ICANN are groups such as the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) and the US Commerce Department, which fear that greater UN involvement will unleash the world's most extensive bureaucracy on the Internet and stifle innovation online.
[March 26, 2004, 13:50]
Chip makers cozy up to Linux
News For longtime Microsoft backer Intel, the world isn't looking quite so homogeneous anymore. Meanwhile, in the 32-bit world, AMD and Lineo announced Monday that they will collaborate on making available on AMD's line of embedded 32-bit processors the...
[June 13, 2000, 15:05]
Wireless could be bridge to digital divide
News Maggie Wilderotter, Microsoft's senior vice president in charge of the public sector worldwide, began a keynote speech on Friday by painting a picture of a starkly divided world. She said 2.5 billion of the world's six billion people live on less...
[April 5, 2004, 13:15]
Nokia: Don't forget about voice
News When Ollila took over as chief executive of Nokia in 1992, less than 1 percent of the world's population used mobile phones, he said during a keynote speech in Las Vegas at CTIA Wireless 2006 on Wednesday.
[April 6, 2006, 10:25]
Robots could be nurses of the future
News It believes that robotics is set to become an extremely important part of the manufacturing industry in the future, and hopes that the project -- titled "Robot Challenge in the 21st Century" -- will help to make Japan a world leader in the sector.
[August 29, 2001, 14:03]
WiMax gathers steam
News As top executives gather in Orlando, Florida this week at the CTIA Wireless 2007 trade show, an emerging technology called WiMax is likely to be a hot topic among carriers and equipment makers from around the world.
[March 27, 2007, 10:57]
Developing countries could benefit from the cloud
News At the OpenSource World event in San Francisco, Lew Tucker, vice president and CTO of cloud computing at Sun, explained that many developing countries are skipping over acquiring their own servers and going right to the cloud.
[August 19, 2009, 16:17]
Web developers wary of AOL switch
News If Netscape becomes the default browser for AOL's client software, developer perceptions of the one-browser world would rapidly dissipate. For all practical purposes, the Web has become a one-browser world over the past few years.
[March 27, 2002, 12:31]
Open source: Developing markets and anti-Americanism
News Institute of Technology launched a project to build low-cost Linux-based laptops for the developing world. Until China joined the World Trade Organisation in 2001, pirated copies of Microsoft software were in common use, including in government...
[November 14, 2005, 11:00]
Ion pleases the eye and kills off the netbook
Blog Comment Just as importantly how many people or pupils in the the developing world have these now? These companies have done nothing more than jump onto the band wagon of the terminology Netbook, just to sell cheap laptops for full laptop prices.
[November 23, 2009, 22:10]
Poor business case could hobble WiMax
News According to Drs Mark Heath and Alastair Brydon of Sound Partners Ltd, WiMax will come under intense pressure from rival wireless and fixed-line technologies in the developed world while, in the developing world, limited disposable income will...
[November 6, 2006, 14:17]
The Big Interview: Pat Gelsinger
News In London for a conference on power management in data centres, Gelsinger sat down with ZDNet UK to discuss a wide range of issues, in particular how Itanium is converging with the new Core architecture, how quickly the developing world is...
[February 26, 2007, 13:39]
Red Hat was involved in both projects...
Talkback Interestingly - Intel and OLPC have been cooperating on PCs for the developing world for months - despite Negroponte's comments - but haven't been very public about it. I attended Red Hat's user summit earlier this year when Red Hat revealed that...
[July 16, 2007, 14:14]
Document Summarization Using Wikipedia
White Papers Although most of the developing world is likely to first access the Internet through mobile phones, mobile devices are constrained by screen space, bandwidth and limited attention span. Single document summarization techniques have the potential to...
[May 1, 2009, 1:18]
Intel launches Community PC platform
News Previous PCs-for-the-poor projects, such as the Simputer and Nicholas Negroponte's $100 PC, have focused on making it possible for people living in rural areas of the developing world to own computing devices.
[March 31, 2006, 18:00]
Data destruction claims rubbished
News As reported earlier this month, Computer Aid has already refurbished 40,000 PCs and sent them out to schools, community projects and other not-for-profit organisations in 90 countries, mainly in the developing world.
[February 21, 2005, 11:00]
Dreaming of a Green Christmas...
Blog IT charity Computer Aid - which takes old PCs from businesses and refurbishes them for the developing world - has launched a Christmas e-card scheme . The idea is that in return for donating £1.00 or more to the charity, you get to send an...
[December 15, 2006, 10:52]
Economic Analysis of Networking Technologies for Rural Developing Regions
White Papers Providing network connectivity to rural regions in the developing world is an economically challenging problem especially given the low income levels and low population densities in such regions. Leveraging several emerging wireless technologies...
[March 25, 2008, 8:58]
$100 laptop scheme insists on open source
News The organisation behind the creation of a $100 (£57) laptop for the developing world has refused an offer of free software from Apple. Negroponte will demonstrate a working prototype of the wind-up laptop at the World Summit on the Information...
[November 15, 2005, 16:00]
