Some sad news regarding the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) project:
Microsoft has joined forces with the developers of the "$100 laptop" to make Windows available on the machines.
According to Wired, Microsoft has had their sights on emerging markets in developing countries for a while now and have viewed low-cost children's ...
After being weirded out by a LifeLock advertisement on TV, I did a Google search on the company and found a great article on Wired. It turns out that one of the company's founders is suspected of identity theft and customers of a former business he ran ended up having ...
"The corporations want us to have experiences only through their products." -- Statement of Belief
Its official - txt space is private space. From the ny times:
Saying it had the right to block “controversial or unsavory” text messages, Verizon Wireless has rejected a request from NARAL Pro-Choice America, the abortion rights group, to make Verizon’s mobile network available for a text-message program...
legal experts said private ...
"To search the web by location, delivering regionally pertinent information to users and regionally pertinent users to advertisers." - Jonathon Keats, Wired 15.09
:: sent wirelessly via blackberry
"You know the feeling" the empathic male voiceover announces, "you can't take care of business the way others do." You can’t, because you have what’s called “Connectile Dysfunction” or “CD” which the voiceover explains as “a condition caused by inadequate broadband coverage." The denizens of New Orleans know this ...
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Andre and I have been trying to add a new plug-in to the blog which would allow threaded discussion. Currently, comments can only be made to posts - but a threaded discussion feature would afford us the ability to comment on ...
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On the flight to Oregon I read Michael Indegaard’s Silicon Alley: the Rise and Fall of a New Media District. “Silicon Alley” mostly runs along Broadway from the Flatiron to the Financial District (see map below). Indegaard makes two ...
