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This week, we are deploying terminal technology into several classrooms that I maintain. Terminals are a great solution for certain situations; students in these classrooms are only using the internet and Micrsoft Office and need to be able to print. All of these things can be done through a remote terminal server on its own vlan. Terminals have a life
I went to buy a new phone for my wife today and came away empty handed. My wife shares my philosophy on phones so I was after a very simple one and she had already chosen a nice slim one. The local shop of our local carrier (lets call them carrier T) had no stock so since I was in
The Minister of State for Higher Education, D. Purandeswari, along with the Indian Institute of Science in Bangalore and the Indian Institute of Technology in Chennai have announced that they will be developing a $10 laptop as a part of their "National Mission in Education through ICT". The Government is working on making a low cost PC and free bandwidth
An article surfaced today in an Australian newspaper regarding Australian customs officials being asked by the U.S. State Department to participate in checking traveler's iPods and laptops for pirated music. My question is, how would they know if it was pirated or not? Supposedly they were looking for "large quantities of commercial music." Er. What does large mean? I've got
Anyone who bought music through Yahoo's Launch service have the option of receiving either a refund, or non-DRM'd copies of any music they bought while the service was running. Yahoo got it right, although this could cost them, financially. As Techdirt editor Mike Masnick said today, "that's what the company gets for agreeing to a DRM'd solution in the first
In the Heartland of America short show tonight but full of tech as always. Some amazing resources in tonights show. I talk about needing a checklist to manage my gear packout. Please Support my Show Sponsors!: [Save 10% off on any order at GoDaddy.com!] Use Code Todd [Try GoToMeeting free for 30 days at GoToMeeting.com/techpodcasts. No credit card needed.] Twitter
Michael Dell talked with GigaOM the other day about what's happening with the company. In the interview, he talks about how Dell is growing, Cloud Computing, the Laptop Market and if they are getting into the Smart phone market. Michael says they are seeing a strong turn since he took back the CEO spot a year and a half ago.
So, Gannett Media has invested $10M in Mogulus. Apparently, Gannett understands the power and usefulness of not only live-streaming, but video uploading in general. Gannett is best known for owning a lot of media, including USAToday and a ton of local news stations (including one in my local market). Gannett gets it. They know that investment in live-streaming could actually
First this morning I read an article about how libraries, once frightened of how the Internet would wreak havoc on visitorship, have seen a huge upturn in use over the last several years, primarily due to visitor's use of the Internet. Libraries are teaching classes on internet usage, providing computer access for patrons, allowing free wi-fi access for their visitors
China's answer to next generation optical discs has fnally had its first production line opened and earned itself a new name. CBHD (China Blue High-definition Disc) was developed in China by Shanghai United Optical Disc. It has some advantages over BluRay, mainly in the cost area. It is cheaper to license, and less than one third the cost to gear
I kinda knew this was going to happen. I pondered doing something on twitter myself, but also knew it was going to be a big undertaking. -- I am doing this post 140 characters at a time. I am separating it at every post length. Why? Well, would you continue to read this post at -- 140 characters at a
I have been asked from time to time about the relationship of Geek News Central to RawVoice. Let me be very clear they are separate entities.
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