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From Net 0 To A Virtual World:
New Ways To Use The Net

Servers for the people! (picture from O’Reilly Radar) Welcome to Net 0! Warana Unwired, a project from Microsoft Research India (see blog), bypasses Web 2.0, Web 3.0, Web 3D and Web(n+1) etc., etc. and puts the power of servers directly into the hands of the people, replacing pcs with cellphones. This may be the first […]

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Video Tour of One Laptop Per Child

Opera CTO, HÃ¥kon Wium Lie, demos OLPC at Wired, and gives a video tour. The OLPC, often called the $100 laptop project (now $150), initiated by the MIT Media Lab under the leadership of Nicholas Negraponte is a project with tremendous implications for education, literacy, the digital divide, and economic growth across the globe (cheat […]

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Quadrupeds To GHz

A business model of “four cows and a computer,” (see Spiegel for the full story) has only become possible thanks to a new local Internet connection known as Cordect. “By European standards, this ‘Indianet’ is only a patchy and relatively slow provisional solution, a kind of digital dirt road leading to the information super-highway.  The […]

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