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14th January 2007 Archive

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  • You want a $100 computer? For $300? No sale!

    No Laptop per Rich Child

    One Laptop per Child (OLPC), a non-profit organisation with the goal of providing children in developing nations with laptop computers, today announced that "contrary to previously published reports OLPC has no plans to make the XO laptops available for sale to the general public." Sad news for Computerworld's Frank Hayes who …

    Music and Media 14 Jan 2007, 03:59

  • 19th century Britain goes online

    History Today

    The Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) has joined forces with Essex University to launch an online picture of Britain's changing population The Online Historical Populations Reports (OHPR) website, launched last week, holds more than 200,000 pages of digitised reports and data showing changes in population from 1800 up …

    Music and Media 14 Jan 2007, 08:02

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