March 18, 2008
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Mary Lou Jepsen, former CTO of the OLPC project (and current President of PixelQi) was a keynote at the 2008 Greener Gadgets conference in NYC. This short address will surprise you regarding the types of green, advanced technologies built for … Continue reading
March 17, 2008
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Sudhir will be on Larry King tonight. Did you catch Sudhir’s appearance on The Colbert Report? The Freakonomics chapter Why Do Drug Dealers Still Live With Their Moms? Sudhir published his book Gang Leader for a Day: A Rogue Sociologist … Continue reading
March 17, 2008
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Have you noticed as of late that almost everything is available…in too many overwhelming choices? I watched a TED video of Barry Schwartz and was interested to learn more about his book The Paradox of Choice: Why More Is Less … Continue reading
March 11, 2008
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Tom Friedman’s The World Is Flat addressed how Globalization flattens the world. By “Flat” he does not imply equal. Many would agree as American companies have moved jobs and production facilities overseas. But to show the true flattening effect, BMW … Continue reading
March 11, 2008
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Verizon’s Business unit joined Internet2 last year and has been working on upgrading their network services unit by scaling their 40GB network to a full 100GB. Scheduled for 2009, their first hops will be in Chicago, New York and Washington … Continue reading
March 9, 2008
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Internet2′s EDIT consortium and Educause have been awarded a grant from the National Science Foundation for the ongoing development work on middleware technologies. Today more and more organizations need to verify and manage user identity and access. Middleware solutions that … Continue reading
March 5, 2008
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Yesterday ComputerWorldUK posted Open source in schools could save the taxpayer billions about the growing impact of Open Source solutions for schools. The growing movement of free resources for education including software and opencourseware solutions continue to thrive. This movement … Continue reading
March 4, 2008
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The internet and the global economy are tied together by a series of network hubs, or links as explained by Albert-Lasziò Barabàsi’s book Linked: How Everything Is Connected to Everything Else and What It Means. The knowledge economy is really … Continue reading