The One Laptop per Child project’s “Give One, Get One” program has been extended through Dec. 31 as donations averaged about $2 million a day. On that pace, the OLPC should move about 490,000 units by the end of the year. Does that make the effort a success?
The initial Give One, Get One promotion–a philanthropic […]
Notable headlines:
Larry Dignan: OLPC: How do we gauge success? Will 490,000 units do? Christopher Dawson: OLPC on sale through 31 December.
Ed Burnette: Sun/Google Android “fight” overblown. Garett Rogers: Is the $10 million Android contest actually slowing developers down?
Rich Mogull: How desktop virtualization will save your company from Generation Y. Nate McFeters: Finding and exploiting holes […]
Robert Scoble spent the last week giving his new Amazon Kindle ebook reader a test drive, reading a couple of books and declaring the progeny of Jeff Bezos a failure. He thinks the usability and user interface suck and it lack features such as a touch screen, social networking and the capability to send electronic […]
Sabeer Bhatia was the co-founder of Hotmail, the Web email service Microsoft acquired for $400 million in 1998. Now, Bhatia wants to bite the hand that fed him. He formed a new company, InstaColl, and is joining Zoho, ThinkFree, Google, Yahoo (Zimbra), Adobe and lesser know others in the effort to squish […]
In March of 2007, former British Prime Minister Tony Blair’s crime task force suggested that iPods should come with fingerprint readers that would lock out anyone who wasn’t the owner. Presumably the way it would work is that an iPod would come tabula rasa and “imprint” on the first finger that touched it.
Facebook Beacon has the ‘Net riled up over what many see as an invasion of their privacy. A Wall Street Journal article gives a good description of how the opt-out process works:
Users can’t opt out of the program, called “Facebook Beacon,” altogether. Instead, they have to opt out on a case-by-case basis when […]
Updated: On this Thanksgiving morning in the U.S., the Facebook Beacon storm continues to rage (Techmeme). It’s simply growing pains for the social graph. In fact, the social graph (which Mark Zuckerberg defines as the network of connections between people) reached a new stage of legitimacy or recognition today with a post by Tim Berners-Lee, […]
Ray Ozzie is Microsoft’s chief software architect–that’s Bill Gates’ old job. He is charged with building a bidirectional bridge between Microsoft’s lucrative rich-client past and its cloud-computing future.
Ozzie, who joined Microsoft in March of 2005, is keeping a low profile lately.
The last time he gave a major public address was at the MIX 07 conference […]
Texas Instruments (TI) is working on a miniature color projector suitable for installation in cell phones. In fact, they recently demonstrated something along exactly those lines. When it will hit the market is anyone’s guess.
Following Credit Suisse’s $900 price target for Google one nagging question remains: Where–and how–is Google going to generate large TV advertising revenue?
If you recall Credit Suisse analyst Heath Terry slapped a big price target on Google and made some assumptions for 2010. One of them was a base case that Google would have TV advertising […]
Dell is beginning to sound a lot like IBM, HP, EDS or any other technology services provider. The big question is whether it’ll succeed at running infrastructure for customers.
One of the big takeaways from Dell’s conference call Thursday evening–aside from the lack of guidance, slight hostility from analysts and shakiness of the presentation in some […]
Google said Friday it will bid in the Federal Communication Commission’s 700 megahertz wireless spectrum auction. The company also said it is bidding solo.
The auction, which gets underway Jan. 24, is an important one since it frees up spectrum occupied by television networks for wireless Internet services. Google had been expected to bid at the […]
Fellow ZDNet blogger Josh Greenbaum is not a fan of salesforce.com. He believes the company is over-hyped, egomanical and expensive for partners. In contrast, Everdream, recently acquired by Dell, is a model SaaS company for partners, he said. In his recent blog post Josh wrote:
…..I believe that Everdream is successful, in a […]
Motorola said Friday that CEO Ed Zander has stepped aside and will be replaced by current chief operating officer Greg Brown. Zander will remain chairman of Motorola until the company’s annual shareholder meeting in May.
The news isn’t entirely unexpected given that Zander has been under fire for months for missing quarterly targets.
Brown is expected to […]
One of the major obstacles for potential iPhone buyers is that the iPhone is offered exclusively via select carriers. Even if users are willing to switch carriers, they may not be willing to eat the often multi-hundred dollar early-termination fee that they would incur.
Several websites are now available to help users avoid various cell carrier fees. Cellswapper.com and Celltradeusa.com both are geared towards helping users seeking to end their contracts early avoid early termination fees, while helping new customers avoid activation fees.
Both sites work on a similar principle in that service providers will typically allow the transfer of contracts without termination or activation fees. The sites therefore act as a meeting place for users to find each other.
Note that the service is not without any cost, as the sites do charge a fee for matchmaking, however the end result should be considerably less than termination and activation fees.
via http://www.macrumors.com/iphone/2007/11/29/getting-out-of-your-contract-without-a-termination-fee/
