Jane Wakefield: I am the network
News One of the Sixties monstrosities is home to BT's corporate incubator Brightstar, set up to stop some of the bleeding the telco has felt as its brightest engineers left for startups. The best ideas are turned into startups (only one in every ten...
[March 26, 2001, 15:30]
Jane Wakefield: Uncovering the heart of technology
News From BT's point of view, it is hoping that something among the wires and widgets of the student's labs will wend their way across the pond to its research site at Martlesham Heath in East Anglia in turn to be translated into solid business ideas...
[June 27, 2001, 16:44]
$100 Laptop: Great for the world, great for Linux
News Red Hat — Google, AMD, News Corporation, Nortel, and Brightstar, have committed $2m (£1m) each to fund the project. Once it became clear that Nicholas Negroponte, one of the key originators of the One Laptop per Child (OLPC) initiative, was going...
[February 2, 2006, 15:10]
$100 laptop to be built in Taiwan
News Other participants in the project include AMD, Brightstar, Google, News Corp. Taiwan's Quanta, the biggest manufacturer of notebooks in the world, has signed on to the $100 laptop project. The OLPC organisation, which hopes to bring a $100 laptop...
[December 14, 2005, 8:40]
The $100 laptop: A well intentioned waste of time?
News As for OLPC, this is being 75 percent funded by MIT and 25 percent by its founding members, AMD, Brightstar, Google, News Corp and Red Hat, which are each believed to have put in $2m so far. While the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) initiative from the...
[November 22, 2005, 10:55]
