Archive for July, 2006

The $100 Laptop

Posted on July 12th, 2006 by Karl Richter
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One of my favorite stories of the past year has been the groups working to provide low-cost laptops to schools around the globe.  The digital divide leaves the students without access to information and computers, further and further behind.  Open source software and inexpensive hardware are coming together to make the flatten the divide [...]

Flock

Posted on July 9th, 2006 by Karl Richter
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What the flock have I been doing using a regular web browser? Up until yesterday, I’d use firefox and safari when I had a choice, IE for windows when I didn’t. But now I’m ditching all of them for the best flockin browser that I know of.

Flock is based on the Firefox browser, [...]