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The OLPC’s third incarnation of the $100 laptop, X0-3, will represent another cutting edge amalgamation of technologies, combining display technologies used in Amazon’s Kindle with the multi-touch interactivity of Apple’s iPad and new tough lightweight case plastics to enclose it all. The MIT Media Lab is expecting to deliver the product to a price point [...]

This morning’s session on Green ICT at the ITU World Telecom Conference (Geneva) was hosted by an exceptional panel of international business leaders including the CEO of Ericsson Mr Hans Vestberg. The discussion converged rapidly to two main points: (a) ICT itself, as an industry sector, can contribute to global reduction in greenhouse gas emissions [...]

I spent a number days meeting with US technology recruiters to discuss recent employment trends and to help identify their most significant needs. The aim being to look at how to facilitate linkages to a number of foreign technology markets. What they reported was not unexpected. Recruitment opportunities are fewer, downward pressure on wages has [...]