Well the latest fad is upon us, and after a bit of a hiatus, I just had to write … It is called JuicyCampus (see http://juicycampus.com/, if you must) and it certainly brings out the worst in us. Let’s face it, people love to gossip. About their ...
This morning, Michael Krigsman wrote and short piece regarding the proposed merger of Microsoft and Yahoo! (See Microsoft-Yahoo: Enterprise confusion.) Michael suggests that the proposed merger (or takeover - depending upon your prospective), may ...
Rant away Chris! There is one, and only one, reason why Nicholas Negroponte has somewhat suddenly embraced Windows (and Microsoft). It is really quite simple. He is being asked by foreign governments — to whom he is trying to sell the XO — “Does the ...
It is expandable using hardware solutions available from a variety of vendors. With sufficient RAM and (virtual) disk, it runs any x86-based operating system without modification. The Classmate sells at a price-point only a few dollars higher than the ...
In our first-ever guest blog, Erik Josowitz does a nice job of describing some of the strengths of virtualization. But, as he also points out, virtualization is far from being a panacea. Server-centric solutions such as virtualization and terminal ...
Well, your students are off-campus now (or soon will be) and any mid-year upgrades you’re planning during the break have been scheduled. Chances are, you’re not thinking about the next academic year just yet but by mid-January you should be — ...
Lots of the comments Chris and I receive from readers speak from the position of acceptance of deplorable funding levels and a sense of resignation that things will never get better. Well, I don’t buy it! Few of us are happy with the state of ...
By now, on most college campuses students are finishing finals and leaving campus for the holidays. In K-12, educators and staff — even in Ed Tech — are also on their way home for a few short weeks but what about Education IT on the typical college ...
At the end of his piece OLPC backlash continues, Chris Dawson asks his readers to “… explain how we can rationalize the opportunity costs of XO rollouts in OLPC’s target markets?“ It’s a very good question with lots of complex answers, as evidenced by ...
If the OLPC project has accomplished nothing else, it has made Microsoft (and Intel) stand up and take notice that third-world schoolchildren represent a huge potential market. But still … To date, OLPC has had only marginal success convincing ...
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