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Netbook Momentum ...
24 July 08 08:14 AM | jamesu | 0 Comments   
I haven't seen much about this in the press yet, but yesterday Intel and Carlos Slim in Mexico announced a deal to deploy 50,000 Intel Classmate Netbook computers to poor students in Mexico. These machines will be running Windows and Office. The agreement Read More...
Look! Windows on the OLPC XO!
15 May 08 04:00 PM | jamesu | 1 Comments   
Today Microsoft and the OLPC are announcing support for Windows on the OLPC XO computer. The two organizations will work together on several pilot programs in emerging market countries starting next month, and the offering will RTM in August or September. Read More...
We Have a Name: "Creative Capitalism"
25 January 08 01:21 PM | jamesu | 0 Comments   
Bill Gates gave a great speech at Davos this week around the concept of Creative Capitalism , an approach where governments, businesses, and non-profits work together to stretch the reach of market forces so that more people can make a profit, or gain Read More...
Cambridge
12 December 07 04:00 PM | jamesu | 0 Comments   
  A team of Microsoft people flew out to Cambridge, Mass. to meet with engineers from the OLPC Foundation yesterday. Here is a photo of my coworkers Bohdan Raciborski (demoing) and John Gunabal (smiling) as we showed some software to Walter Bender, Read More...
OLPC in the News (Part 2)
05 December 07 02:17 PM | jamesu | 1 Comments   
Well, I will be flying out to Cambridge next week for my first meeting with some of the people at the OLPC , and I have to say I am looking forward to it. Some of my UPG co-workers from Microsoft have been meeting with the OLPC team for about a year now, Read More...
OLPC in the News ...
28 November 07 09:09 AM | jamesu | 0 Comments   
Well, it seems like the OLPC organization is in the news a lot lately, even more so than usual. Stories that caught my eye over the last  week included a CNN report , a BBC story from Monday, and of course the Wall Street Journal page A1 story that Read More...
Buchalost
17 October 07 11:34 PM | jamesu | 0 Comments   
October 17, 2007 I began the morning in Bucharest today by going for a run and getting terribly and completely lost. I mean 45 minutes of " Do you speak English -- do you know where the Howard Johnson's Hotel is? " lost. The team ended the day Read More...
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