… reviewed in a long piece from from PC Advisor.
The first £50 OLPC laptops could ship to children in emerging economies within months. PC Advisor speaks to the people behind the project to see how they made the impossible possible. When plans to build and distribute a £50 laptop to schoolchildren in emerging economies […]
According to this piece in the Indy
Major music companies look set to put pressure on the iPod maker Apple to make its proprietary anti-piracy system compatible with music players manufactured by other companies.
While Mr Jobs has called on the music majors - Universal, Sony BMG, EMI and Warner Music - to abandon DRM altogether, the […]
The first $100 laptop has been produced - story here.
A fascinating tour of its Linux interface, courtesy of YouTube, starts here.
The Liberty Alliance has called for the government to use open standards when implementing their ID card plan, according to Computer Weekly (although, crazily enough, Australia’s Computer World has more on the subject.)
New Hampshire’s Nashua Telegraph has called for more openness from their state government and their voting machines:
4. Openness is how New Hampshire government […]
EETimes has an article discussing the pros and cons of applying the open source software development model to hardware design:
Is “open” hardware a disruptive technology that will foster the kind of collaboration that Linux brought to the software world?
Despite the recent demise of one prominent open-source programmable-logic effort, advocates think so. Given the increasingly prohibitive […]
A self-replicating robot known as the “RepRap” has been developed at the University of Bath by a team led by Dr. Adrian Bowyer. The team intend to make the designs for the robot freely available, á la OSS, in the hope that people will tinker with them and put them to good use.
If you want […]
IBM, Sony and Toshiba have announced that they will publish full specifications for their new Cell chip, which powers the upcoming PS3 from Sony. The same technology will also power their new servers.
More about PS3 at GamesIndustry.biz and about the new servers at The Register and a longer article at MacWorld