One Laptop Per Child to begin SA pilot
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| Although the roll-out date for One Laptop Per Child’s (OLPC)
| low-cost machine has been put back until October 2007, OLPC is
| using a limited number of trial machines to run pilots to gain
| experience of how it will work in the local context.
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http://www.tectonic.co.za/view.php?src=rss&id=1593
Here comes the FUD brigade...
IDC: Low-cost laptop no threat to PC
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| IDC excludes low-cost notebooks from its definition of a PC, as they do
| not run a fully-fledged operating system and are not fully-capable PCs.
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http://news.zdnet.co.uk/hardware/0,1000000091,39287591,00.htm?r=2
We heard the same BS from Intel. They might shill for Microsoft Windows,
using the terms "gadget" and "normal operating system".
Related:
NY Times bans Microsoft analysts from Microsoft stories
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| Part of the problem stems from the reticence of companies such as
| IDC and Gartner to reveal their clients. That should make everyone
| nervous, but it doesn't. So called objective technology publications
| keep publishing material bought by vendors without telling you this.
| They're also too lazy or scared to ignore the likes of Gartner and
| IDC until the firms change their disclosure rules.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/12/15/nytimes_ms_ban/
IDC report on Open Document Standards
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| This study is a fact-based analysis of the emerging open document
| standards, Open XML and ODF.
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http://openxmldeveloper.org/archive/2006/11/27/IDC_Open_Document_Standards.aspx
Vista launch to add 100,000 Europe IT jobs: [IDC] study
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| The study, conducted by research firm IDC and commissioned by Microsoft,
| said Windows Vista will be installed on over 30 million personal computers
| in Denmark, France, Germany, Poland, Spain and United Kingdom within the
| first year of shipment.
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060914/tc_nm/microsoft_study_dc
IDC pronounces Linux unimportant to European economy
http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=34542
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