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Thursday, October 14, 2010 7:53 PM

ICT Provision in schools - BESA summary report findings

According to a recent BESA report ! Desktop Computers - 58% of primary schools report being well equipped and 64% of secondary schools report being in the same position as last year. Digital Content - 52% of primary school ICT leaders do not consider...
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Monday, August 04, 2008 4:59 PM

Codename Midori: Microsoft's ascension from physical to virtual?

It's no secret ... Microsoft software was born in an era where getting connected wasn't much of a concern as few had connections! Microsoft has moved with the times with constantly updated products, but they still largely install on hardware....
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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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Wednesday, April 09, 2008 11:34 PM

Deteriorating performance on network computers? Is 1:1 the answer?

There is a well observed phenomena in school networks. Go out and buy nice new computers for your school and their performance rapidly deteriorates with each passing day/week. A computer bought at the same time and placed in the office performs better...
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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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Friday, October 26, 2007 11:42 AM

"Piggybacking" school wi-fi theft - pair cautioned in Maidstone!

In this weeks Kent Messenger (Maidstone Edition) there is a story about wi-fi bandwidth theft from a school ... "Piggy Backing", more formally known as 'dishonestly obtaining an electronic communication service" is an increasing problem, especially as...
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Tuesday, March 27, 2007 9:12 PM

Wanna see a cool piece of kit you just can't have?

Intel has created an ultra-low-cost laptop for school children in emerging markets (why can't we be emerging?). The "ClassMatePC" is available with Linux or Windows XP, comes with an "educational feature set," and is part of a program in which Intel plans...
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