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Two ways to bring PCs to emerging nations
News In its effort to bring computers to emerging nations, the non-profit trade organisation One Laptop per Child has linked up with some of the world's largest contract manufacturers and component suppliers to build its low-cost machines.
[February 28, 2007, 15:25]
Emerging markets want feature-packed phones
News With saturated mobile markets in developed nations, phone manufacturers are having to find ways to squeeze more features into lower-priced phones to capture the tech-savvy consumers in emerging markets.
[June 9, 2008, 8:08]
China and India set to lead global innovation
News The scales of economy are tipping in favour of developing nations, with countries like China and India poised to overtake established markets in areas of technology adoption and innovation. At the rate developing nations are churning out new...
[July 11, 2007, 15:36]
OLPC and Intel bury the hatchet
News Intel chairman Craig Barrett has been the public face of the company's work on its Classmate PCs for emerging nations, and he has been very dismissive of the OLPC project in the past, calling it "the $100 gadget".
[July 16, 2007, 8:18]
Emerging market centres from Intel on the way
News Unfortunately, per capita income on average is also far lower in most of these nations than in more mature markets, so lowering costs is a key part of the strategies of all these companies. Intel will open up four design centres to tackle the some...
[August 1, 2005, 9:15]
Execs see technology as economic equaliser
News He started off describing what he considers the "pillars of national competitiveness" that will make developing nations more prosperous. He said technology is important to developing nations because it helps drive economic growth, create jobs and...
[January 12, 2009, 17:08]
AMD to sell Transmeta chips in emerging markets
News Many in the PC industry see developing nations as the next growth market, largely because PC penetration is so low. FlexGo PCs will be sold to consumers and small businesses in emerging markets such as Thailand and Brazil.
[June 6, 2006, 9:35]
Power of sms in emerging economies
Blog Already some European nations are already toying with the idea of having sms elections in future elections .All the voter is required to do is to check for their eligibility by texting their social security numbers to a short code and if eligible...
[July 23, 2008, 12:03]
HP unveils developing-world experiments
News The demonstration comes shortly after HP disbanded a group dedicated to creating technology for emerging nations such as India, China and Africa. Despite the dissolution of the group, called the Emerging Markets Solutions Group, HP turned its eye...
[April 7, 2006, 9:30]
Microsoft accelerates public sector offensive
News The company has also created educational programmes that let emerging nations in Africa and elsewhere buy copies of Microsoft Office for educational institutions for a few pounds. Although the programme was mostly designed for large developing...
[February 2, 2005, 12:30]
UK climbs up tech-competitiveness rankings
News The US remains the most competitive IT industry in the world for incubating high-tech start-ups and breeding technology innovation, but the UK and a host of other nations are snapping at its heels, according to the Economist Intelligence Unit.
[September 17, 2008, 13:17]
Microsoft marches on Moscow to do battle with Linux
News Intel, AMD, Hewlett-Packard and others have similar programmes for emerging nations. Windows XP Starter Edition is Microsoft's attempt to gain more customers in the developing nations, the fastest growing markets in the world.
[September 27, 2004, 16:20]
Mobile Security Becoming $900 Million Market
Blog Where the western countries lag behind the Asian markets the advances in mobile technology in many Asian nations are proving the mass market demand for mobile security products and services alike. Java-enabled mobile malware, mobile internet...
[January 10, 2009, 16:54]
US exports DMCA in trade treaty
News One chapter of the complex agreement closely mirrors the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), affirming both nations' commitment to punishing people who bypass copy-protection technologies -- such as those used in most DVDs, a relatively small...
[July 16, 2003, 14:12]
India to be fifth 'flagship' for Windows XP Starter Edition
News Earlier this week, the company made a similar move in Russia, while plans for Thailand, Indonesia and Malaysia were confirmed in August as part of the firm's plan to gain market share in developing nations.
[September 29, 2004, 10:55]
XML 5: What's the story with OASIS? The XML champion examined.
News UN/CEFACT is the United Nations body that covers policy in ebusiness, and the alliance is a major coup for XML adoption. On September 15th, OASIS joined forces with the United Nations body for Trade Facilitation and Electronic Business to launch a...
[November 10, 1999, 11:03]
Turbulence in Tunisia
News Ben Ali's administration distributed brochures to all attendees of the United Nations' WSIS in Tunis, Tunisia, this week stressing that press freedom is respected. One would have hoped that you could bring United Nations' Universal
[November 21, 2005, 13:55]
US tightens grip on IT leadership - report
News Unlike many other nations that concentrate on protecting existing businesses and institutions, the United States presses ahead with change even when it means 'creative destruction' of companies that drive its economy today in order to build a...
[July 18, 2003, 8:00]
US endorses Internet Governance Forum
News The Bush administration and its critics at a United Nations summit at Tunis in Tunisia have inked a broad agreement on global China, Cuba, South Africa and other nations have argued that the US and other wealthier nations must share power...
[November 16, 2005, 13:40]
Intel to invest $1bn in World Ahead programme
News Intel will spend more than $1bn during the next five years to help bring computers, training and Internet connectivity to emerging nations. The programme will also let the company lay some of the groundwork for future sales as the markets in these...
[May 2, 2006, 10:20]
