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New handheld aims to bridge digital divide
News Their vision is to create not only a computer, but also an "evolving platform for social change" throughout the world by bridging the digital divide. A non-profit group in India has created a simple, inexpensive, multilingual handheld device aimed...
[May 25, 2001, 16:21]
Digital divide still scars UK Internet sector
News Internet access begins at home only if you're well paid, according to new research that show that years of government and industry initiatives have yet to close Britain's digital divide. Research published on Tuesday by the Greater London Authority...
[November 18, 2003, 16:50]
'Urgent action needed' over broadband divide
News Keith Todd, chairman of the Broadband Stakeholders Group (BSG), warned on Monday that both the government and the telecommunications industry will come under pressure to address this broadband divide, which he described as 'not unacceptable'.
[October 21, 2002, 14:17]
Governments 'play key role' in reducing digital divide
News The digital divide is alive and well around the world, according to a new international survey. The ITU survey provides further grist for the debate over the so-called digital divide, or the gap between people who have access to advanced...
[November 21, 2003, 9:50]
Broadband divide getting wider
News The digital divide has long been identified as an issue that needs addressing. The government identified the digital divide as a problem several years ago, but one rural broadband activist pointed out that people need a reason to get connected.
[January 19, 2006, 12:40]
Free set-top boxes for all to end digital divide
News A UK company claims it will bridge the digital divide in its ambitious plan to provide every house in Britain with a free set-top box to access digital television channels and the Internet. Freebox believes its freebie technology will help end the...
[September 27, 2000, 15:31]
Efficient Load Balancing for Wide-Area Divide-and-Conquer Applications
White Papers Divide-and-conquer programs are easily parallelized by letting the programmer annotate potential parallelism in the form of spawn and sync constructs. To achieve efficient program execution, the generated work load has to be balanced evenly among...
[July 10, 2008, 1:01]
'Midband' will ease the broadband divide, says BT
News He said he believes that the existing measures BT is taking to address the broadband divide, such as its pre-registration scheme, would bring coverage up to 80 percent, with further progress dependent on technological progress.
[November 19, 2002, 16:01]
Kids key to closing the digital divide
News BT is attempting to use the nation's youth to increase Internet use and close the digital divide. The digital divide is still a major problem for the UK, according to research published earlier this month that found Internet access often only...
[November 26, 2003, 17:05]
Divide and conquer Active Directory
News One popular method is to divide AD into organisational units (OUs) based on department. If you just upgraded from Windows NT and used the default AD configuration, AD probably isn't organised optimally.
[June 25, 2002, 14:07]
Britain gets a new broadband divide
Talkback The Broadband divide now has many layers. BT has not given any indication if or when they may upgrade the remaining ~600 local exchanges to ADSL. I am sadly in connected to one of these exchanges - it carries 130 lines and is only 2.3km from a main...
[April 20, 2005, 10:39]
Government failing to close digital divide
News The report, "Closing the Digital Divide: Information and Communication Technology in Deprived Areas", comes from the government's Policy Action Team 15 and blames the cost of Net access and lack of a clear policy for putting people in the poorest...
[March 28, 2000, 13:23]
Open source 'split by digital divide'
News Few programmers in developing countries get involved in the mainstream development of open source software, leading to a digital divide within open source projects, a researcher from the United Nations University (UNU) claimed on Thursday.
[March 17, 2006, 17:10]
Britain gets a new broadband divide
Talkback A fair comment on the new Broadband Divide. The divide is huge when you consider some people could potentially have the choice of BT ADSL, BT SDSL, LLU such as Bulldog and a Cable provider. Contrast that with the poster above, his dialup and little...
[April 20, 2005, 12:57]
Missing PCs add to digital divide woes
News The Kensington project was the first of six giveaway projects aimed at preventing a digital divide. Recycled computers given free to a deprived Liverpool community as part of a £10m government initiative have been sold off for a fraction of their...
[May 11, 2001, 16:09]
Bridge the digital divide with your old PCs
News Computer Aid International is a UK-registered, not-for-profit organisation working to bridge the divide between the developing and the developed world. An initiative that helps companies and individuals donate old PCs to good causes went live last...
[December 20, 2004, 11:05]
Europe's online gender divide slow to close
News Nielsen//NetRatings European market analyst Tom Ewing is concerned that this gender divide reinforces the perception that the Web is a very male-dominated place. This evidence that the UK's online gender gap still exists comes at a time when there...
[June 24, 2003, 15:24]
UK retailers facing e-commerce divide
News The report warned that this growing digital divide means that many of Britain's smaller firms are failing to benefit from the advantages of systems such as online payment and ordering systems, and B2B marketplaces.
[July 29, 2002, 10:36]
E-envoy: broadband divide will wreck rural economy
News The select committee on Environment, Food and Rural Affairs examined the factors behind this broadband divide this summer, and concluded that direct subsidy from the government was needed to persuade telcos to build high-speed broadband networks...
[September 26, 2003, 12:05]
Divide & Conquer
Downloads Divide & Conquer is an OS X helper app(let) for Quicktime Pro, which automates the task of splitting up Quicktime files into archive-sized segments. It has a ReadMe. Sometimes when I've shot PAL DV footage, I want to archive it to DVD as...
[March 20, 2005, 7:00]
