Category Archives: Network

OLPC – The mission

March 11th, 2010

The Principles and Child Empowerment of the One Laptop Per Child program and the Laptop’s design for learning. Tags: OLPC, Sugar Labs, laptop per child, XO, open source, globalization, trends

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Transforming how we experience imaging

February 19th, 2010

Blaise Aguera y Arcas is an architect at Microsoft Live Labs, architect of Seadragon and the co-creator of Photosynth, a monumental piece of software capable of assembling static photos into a synergy of zoomable, navigatable spaces. Check out how this technology will change our approach to imaging. Tags: Blaise Aguera y Arcas, Seadragon, Photosynth, design, TED, [...]

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Tagged architect, blaise aguera y arcas, imaging, microsoft, monumental piece, photos, photosynth, seadragon, synergy, TED

Google: Think BIG with a gig

February 11th, 2010

Google is planning to launch an experimental network that will make internet access better and faster for consumers. Link to website Tags: experimental network, Google, Network, internet access, Research, Internet2, Broadbandt, gigabit, high speed, trends,

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Tagged consumers, experimental network, fiber, gig, gigabit, Google, high speed, home connections, internet access, internet speeds, Network, speed broadband, youtube

Large Hadron Collider’s big network

January 19th, 2010

15 petabytes of data a year will be generated by the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) a particle physics project running at CERN and that requires a very robust network. Data generated by LHC is being distributed to over 7,000 scientists worldwide and travels across the US Midwest via BoreasNet. In this video CERN technologists discuss the [...]

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Tagged boreas, cern, gigabit ethernet ports, hadron collider, Internet2, large hadron, lhc, midwest, Network, particle physics, petabytes, robust network, storage devices

Google Web Toolkit 2.0

December 20th, 2009

An overview of Google’s Web Toolkit (GWT) 2.0, a tool with new updates that empower developers to write highly optimized, browser-specific JavaScript for their apps. Pretty cool stuff. Tags: Web Toolkit, Google, Developers, datasets, innovation, technology, trends

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OLPC XO-2: Dead on arrival

November 4th, 2009

No sooner did we expect to see prototypes when Nicholas Negroponte announced the XO-2 was being killed for a OLPC XO 1.75: It will be interesting to see the development of the next OLPC XO 3.0 unit, but overall many were looking forward to the 2.0 release. Tags: OLPC, XO-2, laptop, XO, Negroponte, globalization, trends

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Tagged arm processor, laptop, nicholas negroponte, OLPC, olpc xo, prototypes

Google’s AWESOME offer to K12 Schools

October 24th, 2009

Google has been helping K12 Schools and Colleges save money by giving free access to their powerful tools in an enterprise setting. Google began offering Gmail and have continued to add more tools to their suite specifically tuned for schools. Known as Google Apps for Education (GAE) this collection provides an excellent solution for schools [...]

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Tagged anti virus protection, college, computing solution, docs, Education, educational cooperatives, firstclass, Google, google apps, information, k12, k12 school districts, message security, northwestern university, precious money, publishing web, school district, school technology, storage integration, storage space, Technology, technology budgets, university case study, video storage, virus solution

My latest read – America Alone

October 24th, 2009

Mark Steyn has written a clever book America Alone: The End of the World As We Know It. In a post 9/11 world America, according to Steyn must “go it alone” against the impact Muslims have in today’s world. A lot of his knowledge is coming from outside the mainstream of US media organizations and [...]

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Tagged 9/11, abortion rates, anglo america, anglo american, assimilation, cheap oil, culture, democratic countries, demography, eastern european countries, knowledge, lockerbie, mark steyn, media organizations, muslim countries, muslim populations, muslim world, organization, political strength, population, three generations

My latest read – Groundswell

October 11th, 2009

Groundswell: Winning in a World Transformed by Social Technologies. This book is a great primer for social media. If your new to social media this book is for you. However if you have been working with blogs and wikis for more than five years this book is a bit too elementary but a great quick [...]

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