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- Electronic Arts to donate SimCity to the OLPC project
- Electronic Arts plans to donate the original version of the popular SimCity computer game to the OLPC One Laptop Per Child project for inclusion on the XO laptop. The idea is that the game will be distributed to schoolchildren in developing countries not only to entertain but...
- Tags: Electronic Arts Inc., Idea, Laptop Computer, One Laptop Per Child Project, XO, Don Hopkins, Games, Personal Technology, Paul Mah
- Blog posts 2007-11-11
- Polyglot (Azeri Dictionaries) (zip)
- This dictionary system includes Azeri-English, English-Azeri, Russian-Azeri dictionaries, and Schoolchildren Dictionaries. The dictionary consists of over 200,000 words and expressions. The Polyglot electronic dictionary system also has games to facilitate the learning of foreign languages. The system's software fully supports and is based on the new UniCode standards of Azeri...
- Tags: Dictionary, Quality, Games, Business Operations, Personal Technology
- Software downloads 2005-11-02
- Electronic Arts donates SimCity to the OLPC
- Perhaps TR members could chip in about how a game on city building will benefit schoolchildren from a rural area. What other games would you recommend be bundled with the XO laptop?RE: Electronic Arts donates SimCity to the OLPCThanks for writing the article about OLPC SimCity! There's more information...
- Tags: Games, paulmah@..., SimCity, game, One Laptop Per Child project, Electronic Arts Inc., city building, benefit schoolchildren
- Discussion threads 2007-11-11
- Exomatiks (exe)
- Exomatiks is an educational software of mathematics for schoolchildren and high school students. It composes of three modules: exercises module, calculations module and graphs module. The exercises module uses the program of the classes of the school and the secondary school to propose to pupil of corrected exercises and methodological...
- Tags: Module, Calculation, Exomatiks Software, Tools & Techniques, Management
- Software downloads 2006-01-03
- OLPC used by students to access porn
- Remember the One Laptop Per Child OLPC program? IT News Digest ran a few pieces on OLPC in the last a few months, the most recent by John Bartley - Intel inside $100 laptop? - in which Intel announced its joining of the program and contribution of funds. ...
- Tags: Laptop Computer, One Laptop Per Child Project, Notebooks, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Paul Mah
- Blog posts 2007-07-23
- Macedonia to install Ubuntu on 20,000 school PCs
- The Macedonia Ministry of Education and Science has received its first batch of 7,000 PCs with Ubuntu Linux installed. Ubuntu sponsor Canonical expects the figure will soon reach 20,000 units. The actual distribution deployed here is Edubuntu 7.04, a version of Ubuntu tailored for classroom use....
- Tags: Ubuntu, PC, Desktops, Linux, Hardware, Operating Systems, Software, Paul Mah
- Blog posts 2007-11-17
- $100 laptop doubles in price but generates first large order
- The $100 laptop project has gotten twice as good, or at least twice as expensive, as the Cambridge Foundation has not achieved the economies of scale that it thought it might at the beginning of the project. Still, $200 for a laptop is an incredible price, and the project...
- Tags: $100 Laptop, Laptop Computer, One Laptop Per Child Project, Uruguay, Notebooks, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Andy Moon
- Blog posts 2007-10-30
- Geek Trivia: A tax to grind
- Which company filed the largest U.S. tax return in history? It's spring in the northern hemisphere, when young men's fancies turn to thoughts of love. But if you live in the United States, thoughts of love will have to wait -- at least for another week. That's...
- Tags: Jay Garmon, Taxes, Operational accounting, income, income tax, tax, Geek Trivia Newsletter, U.S., General Electric Co., Free Trade, Financial Planning, Finance
- Technical articles 2007-04-10
- Geek Trivia: Grand old snag
- What payment did Francis Hopkinson request for the design of the first U.S. flag? Editor's note: The Trivia Geek is taking a little time off to celebrate CNET Networks' 10th anniversary, so we've pulled this Classic Geek, which originally ran on June 30, 2004, from our archives to tide...
- Tags: Jay Garmon, American Flag, Betsy Ross, flag, Francis Hopkinson, Geek Trivia Newsletter, U.S., Payment, Board, Editor, Weisgerber, Corporate Governance, Operational Accounting, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Finance
- Technical articles 2005-06-21
- Our society has abdicated self-reliance & personal responsibility.
- Our society has abdicated self-reliance & personal responsibility.[b][i]What do recent findings in neuroscience tell us about the ability of people to make moral judgments or reasoned decisions? Advances in neuroscience are being used by advocates to guide public policy on a broad range of moral and ethical issues. Is this...
- Tags: self-reliance
- Discussion threads 2005-05-28
- Geek Trivia: Reigning storms
- What's the deadliest Atlantic hurricane in recorded history? While most news outlets are still reporting on the aftermath of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, it's important to remember that these hurricanes were neither the first nor the last devastating storms in human history. In fact, this week...
- Tags: Jay Garmon, Columbus Day Storm, Columbus Day, Columbus, Atlantic hurricane, Geek Trivia Newsletter, Storm, Hurricane, Radiation, Atlantic, Corporate Communications, Corporate Governance, Currency & Foreign Exchange, Sales Tools, Marketing, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Finance, Sales
- Technical articles 2005-10-11
- Geek Trivia: Rising from the ashes
- What notable item of symbolic, nonscientific cargo survived the Challenger disaster completely unscathed? Twenty years ago this week, one of the gravest moments in the history of the American space program came to pass. On Jan. 28, 1986, the space shuttle Challenger exploded a mere 73 seconds...
- Tags: Jay Garmon, Challenger, Geek Trivia Newsletter, Cargo, TechRepublic Inc., NASA, Disaster, Professional Development, Aerospace & Defense, Strategy, Career, Manufacturing, Management
- Technical articles 2006-01-24
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