Category: Globalization

OLPC, Intel and sales commissions

Post author By Don Kasprzak
Post date January 7, 2008

Intel and OLPC have separated. After “publicly coming together” less than six months ago due to the negative efforts of an Intel saleswoman trying to persuade a Peruvian government official to drop their commitment to purchase 250,000 OLPC units in favor of Intel’s own PCs.

The way Intel leaked their decision to break from OLPC was underhanded to say the least. I cannot help but ask Intel’s chief executive Paul S. Otellini: what is Intel’s sales commission on a quarter of a million units?

OLPC’s statement sums it up pretty well: “[we] view the children as a mission; Intel views them as a market.”

Tags: OLPC, Negroponte, Intel , Otellini

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The best of open source

opensource living

There is a new web resource pointing to some of the best open source software (free software) available today for Windows, OS X and Linux platforms. Its worth a look.

Tags: open source, education, globalization, network, trends

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Internet2 – Peering Milestone

Post author By Don Kasprzak
Post date December 22, 2007

Internet2’s Commerical Peering service has announced a peering milestone: connecting to 70,000 routes. Participants in this service now see more than 50% of their commodity traffic needs being met with I2’s peering service.

This service continues to expand the number of private and public peering connections, now to over 70 000 commodity Internet routes by connecting to major ISPs and content hosting providers over a virtual private network (VPN)

For Internet2 Network Connectors with available traffic headroom within their Internet2 IP Network connection, the CP service is available at no additional cost and can offer a significant total cost reduction to their overall Internet expenses.

Tags: Internet2, peering, education, globalization, network, trends

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NBC: Reconsider iTunes

Post author By Don Kasprzak
Post date December 12, 2007

NBC logo So NBC has been forced to refund advertisers an average of $500,000 each due to low ratings. One hopes they will workout an agreement with iTunes to again sell their TV shows. NPR news article here.
At some point someone at NBC Universal will realize all those millions of dollars really add up to something….What were they thinking?

Tags: NBC, iTunes, low ratings, trends

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Open Yale

Post author By Don Kasprzak
Post date December 12, 2007

Have you ever wanted to take a class on Modern Poetry taught by a distinguished scholar?

Yale University has joined MIT and select institutions of higher learning by placing academic courses online, inviting anyone around the globe (this means you) to participate. Today seven courses are available with additional courses on the way.