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Sunday, May 25, 2008 4:22 PM

XO2 - A new format for the sub $100 notebook

The $100 dollar laptop project has moved on with a new look and format, and is now planned to be $75! The new device created by the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) project opens like a book and has a new price of $75. It's not aimed to replace the original...
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Thursday, February 07, 2008 7:43 PM

New Line Learning Academy + Samsung Q1 = 1:1?

Saw this interesting video produced by LANWAY in partnership with the New Line Learning Academies in Maidstone. The video is clearly a commercial for both the devices and the partner company, but this is exactly the sort of partnership that adds value...
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Friday, January 04, 2008 12:29 PM

Intel pulls out of One Laptop Per Child Project.

It would seem that a 'philisophical difference' between Intel and the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) Project has ended in divorce. It was well known that whilst Intel was on the board of the OLPC project, it was also touting its own solution, the Classmate...
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Tuesday, December 04, 2007 5:57 PM

Minor handheld skirmish in Nigeria?

Two competing initiatives aimed at providing cheap computers to children in emerging economies appear to be slugging it out over the same turf. Abuja in Nigeria is where the action is ... apparently! The interesting thing is that two competing projects...
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Saturday, February 10, 2007 9:18 AM

Handhelds - Landscape or Portrait?

If you were creating content for handheld devices in education, what format/s should you use? With audio there is MP3 format (or variants to protect copyright), video MP4, images JPEG and for interactivity there is the browser or flash based content....
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Saturday, February 10, 2007 8:25 AM

Will Smartphones kill off PDA's?

There is a clear trend in the handheld market. PDA sales are falling rapidly (some hardware manufacturers such as Toshiba are leaving the market) in favour of devices that converge data and voice, such as the Blackberry and the Smartphone which have personal...
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