By Paul McDougall May 21, 2008
One Laptop Per Child chairman Nicholas Negroponte on Tuesday unveiled a prototype of the charity's next-generation, low-cost laptop for poor students in emerging markets. The device, called the XO 2.0, could sell for as little as $75, Negroponte said at an event at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Boston. "This laptop comes from a different point of view," he said. Indeed, the XO 2.0 is a highly slimmed-down version of OLPC's current XO model and is designed for students that, in some cases, must walk miles to and from school. "Being small is very important," said Negroponte. "The current one is a little too big; it's a little too heavy." The XO 2.0 features a touch-screen keyboard that can double as a second display when the device is turned on its side like a book, allowing use by more than one student at a time. "It's a totally new concept for learning devices," said Negroponte.
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Thursday, May 22, 2008
Microsoft's Embrace of ODF Cautiously Welcomed
By Jeremy Kirk May 22, 2008
Microsoft's support for the OpenDocument Format (ODF) could mean greater opportunities for software makers already using the format, observers said Thursday. Microsoft will put native support for ODF as part of its next service pack for Office 2007, due out by the first half of 2009. The surprise decision came as Microsoft's faces continued regulatory scrutiny from the European Commission over interoperability concerns. The Commission said in a statement Thursday that it welcomes steps Microsoft takes toward "genuine" interoperability and that it would analyze the latest announcement to see how it impacts consumers' software choices. In January, the Commission opened two new antitrust investigations against Microsoft concerning the interoperability of Windows with other software and the company's practice of bundling software products with Windows.
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Microsoft's support for the OpenDocument Format (ODF) could mean greater opportunities for software makers already using the format, observers said Thursday. Microsoft will put native support for ODF as part of its next service pack for Office 2007, due out by the first half of 2009. The surprise decision came as Microsoft's faces continued regulatory scrutiny from the European Commission over interoperability concerns. The Commission said in a statement Thursday that it welcomes steps Microsoft takes toward "genuine" interoperability and that it would analyze the latest announcement to see how it impacts consumers' software choices. In January, the Commission opened two new antitrust investigations against Microsoft concerning the interoperability of Windows with other software and the company's practice of bundling software products with Windows.
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AMD's next-gen GPUs to feature GDDR5
By Parm Mann 21st May, 2008
Details regarding both NVIDIA's and AMD's forthcoming next-gen GPUs are beginning to pour in thick and fast. Today, AMD has officially confirmed that it's next-generation Radeon graphics products, namely the HD 4800 series, will feature Graphics Double Data Rate version 5 (GDDR5) memory. AMD, tooting its own horn somewhat, states its implementation of GDDR5 to be yet another of its industry firsts, alongside being "first to bring a unified shader architecture to market, the first to support Microsoft DirectX® 10.1 gaming, first to lower process nodes like 55nm, the first with integrated HDMI with audio, and the first with double-precision floating point calculation support." According to AMD's internal testing, GDDR5 has been found to support data rates at up to five times that of GDDR3 and four times that of GDDR4.
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Details regarding both NVIDIA's and AMD's forthcoming next-gen GPUs are beginning to pour in thick and fast. Today, AMD has officially confirmed that it's next-generation Radeon graphics products, namely the HD 4800 series, will feature Graphics Double Data Rate version 5 (GDDR5) memory. AMD, tooting its own horn somewhat, states its implementation of GDDR5 to be yet another of its industry firsts, alongside being "first to bring a unified shader architecture to market, the first to support Microsoft DirectX® 10.1 gaming, first to lower process nodes like 55nm, the first with integrated HDMI with audio, and the first with double-precision floating point calculation support." According to AMD's internal testing, GDDR5 has been found to support data rates at up to five times that of GDDR3 and four times that of GDDR4.
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