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- Administradoras de Fondos de Ahorro Previsiona
- Uruguay's four Pension Fund Administrators - Republica AFAP, Afinidad AFAP, Union Capital AFAP, and Integracion AFAP - began operating in 1996. The company wanted to optimize the processes of individual accounts and investment portfolios of the administrations and modernize the administration outsourced information technology system. The challenges were to reduce...
- Tags: Oracle Corp., Information Technology, Administration, Uruguay, Workforce Management, Outsourcing, Strategy, Databases, Human Resources, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Management, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management
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- $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
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- $100 laptop debuts in Uruguay
- The Laptop Project has delivered their first XO machines, the famed "$100 laptops", faster than previously expected, to a school in Uruguay, after Brazilian beta testing. XOs are RoHS-compliant for safety. They run on a 366MHz AMD Geode GX, and burn only two...
- Tags: $100 Laptop, Mailing List, Laptop Computer, Laptop Project, Notebooks, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, John Bartley K7AAY
- Blog posts 2007-05-29
- "$100" laptop debuts in Uruguay
- XO was updated: 433MHz LX, 256M RAM, 1GB flashCheck the http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Hardware_specificationOLPC chose to upgrade the specs, basically to have a better browser experience, playback full screen DVD resolution video smoothly, support flash and advanced Web 2.0 AJAX javascripts, and to support Windows XP and OSX without asking too much from...
- Tags: Notebooks, johnbartley, laptop computer
- Discussion threads 2007-05-29
- Direccion General de Registros Computerizes Its Data, Delivering Greater Security and Service Levels
- The Direccion General de Registros DGR is an executive unit of the Ministry of Education and Culture of Uruguay. DGR is responsible for the legal registration of different types of transactions related to individuals or legal entities, vehicles, and real state. DGR wanted to computerize individual, commercial and public data...
- Tags: Security, Oracle Corp., DGR
- Case studies
- XO laptop finally goes into mass production
- After a number of delays, the much-anticipated XO laptop finally went into mass production. CNET News.com reported that Taiwan's Quanta Computer started producing the XO early Tuesday morning in its new Changshu manufacturing center, just two hours northwest of Shanghai. Excerpt from News.com: The commencement...
- Tags: Laptop Computer, One Laptop Per Child Project, XO, Notebooks, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Paul Mah
- Blog posts 2007-11-06
- $100 laptop is now $188
- The much publicized "$100 laptop" of the nonprofit One Laptop Per Child OLPC initiative has acknowledged that the devices will now cost $188 when mass production begins this fall. The initial $100 price point has been relegated to that of a long-term goal. A variety of...
- Tags: $100 Laptop, Laptop Computer, One Laptop Per Child Project, Government, Paul Mah
- Blog posts 2007-09-15
- Why the Classmate PC is doing better than the XO laptop
- The recent order by the government of Uruguay for 100,000 XO laptops has certainly given proponents of the OLPC project something to cheer about. Yet the hard truth is that there has been little in the way of good news so far. In fact, the dearth...
- Tags: Laptop Computer, Intel Corp., One Laptop Per Child Project, Notebooks, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Paul Mah
- Blog posts 2007-10-31
- Dutch tech firm wants to rid the Web of the .com
- A Dutch technology company has breathed life into a project to rid the Internet of suffixes such as .com, and instead offer single names which can be countries, company names, or fantasy words. Critics argue alternative root companies introduce ambiguity because they bring a new set of traffic rules to...
- Tags: .com, icann, security, Sonja Thompson, tech company, Web
- Discussion threads 2005-11-28
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