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Archos 2 review

Posted by – May 25, 2009

Review of the Archos 2 mp3 player, the current cheapest mp3 player with 4GB ($39), 8GB ($59) and 16GB ($99) having such a nice color 1.8″ LCD screen for videos and pictures. It’s main selling point is that it’s much cheaper than the competing devices by Sandisk, Dell, and Apple’s ipod nano.

You can discuss this video at http://forum.archosfans.com/viewtopic.php?f=48&t=23755

Hanvon Touchscreen E-Book

Posted by – March 19, 2009

Hanvon shows a 5″ touchscreen E-Ink E-Book reader device. The size of the screen I think could be perfect for the device to be pocketable, if they can just remove all the unecessary screen bezel before the release of this product. The touchscreen feature using the special stylus has also a huge potential in terms of building software features for it once the device is connected to the Internet using WiFi or HSDPA, to enable readers to collaborate online on editing texts, on commenting and building communities of handwritten annotations around texts. A USB or Bluetooth keyboard could then be connected to enter typed annotations as well.

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ARM in OLPC XO-2

Posted by – January 29, 2009

OLPC is probably looking for a non X86 architecture for XO-2, probably ARM, where several providers can provide the processor. Using ARM Cortex, OLPC can use any of Texas Instruments, Mavell, Freescale, Samsung, Qualcomm, Nvidia and others, all interchangeably, independently of the deals that will be put in place. The idea being that having all these ARM Cortex providers being more or less compatible with each other, enabling minimal changes in motherboard designs to have them all be compatible, this enables competition in the processor market. This will more quickly drive the prices down much further. This is the only way you can optimize the interpretation of Moore’s law which says that you can cut the price and power consumption of laptops by half every 18 months.

There is a basic reason AMD is not too enthusiastic about this whole new low cost laptop market. The reason is written on the wall, everyones can see it coming, cheaper laptops means it will be much harder to find profits in the industry. AMD isn’t exactly having an easy time already as things are today, Intel’s profit margins and overall income have shrinked 90% in 2008 compared to 2007.

I believe OLPC should use Google Android with Sugar on top, and they should increasingly rely on cloud computing such as the recently rumored Google Web Drive service to store and share all the data on. With XO-2, you should much further synchronize the way the school servers synch storage, processing power and contents to and from the cloud. Basically what you get is an overly simplified Internet access terminal, one with a small ARM Cortex processor behind the next generation of even lower power and lower cost Pixel Qi screens. One that just relies on basic Google Gears for local content caching, and let most of the rest happen using the much cheaper cloud.

$100 laptops using ARM are possible today already. Chinese GPS manufacturers are making them already using uber simple Linux and last generation MIPS or ARM processors: http://techvideoblog.com/category/laptops/

This makes it obvious that OLPC can achieve a $75 price point on XO-2, consider also the advantage of using a dual touch-screen, is that ou can even more easilly mass manufacture exactly the same model for the whole world. Since all the different keyboard layouts and all of the local interfaces are simply going to be a software function of the touchscreens. Mary-Lou Jepsen has done it once already. She can do it again.

Marc Canter at LeWeb 2008 in Paris

Posted by – December 14, 2008

Marc Canter is the CEO of Broadband Mechanics.

Sevenload at LeWeb 2008 in Paris

Posted by – December 14, 2008

Interview with Sevenload CEO Axel Schmiegelow about Sevenload’s position in the online video market.

Kevin Marks – Google OpenSocial Developer Advocate

Posted by – February 14, 2008

Kevin Marks is a Developer Advocate for OpenSocial at Google, bringing external developers and Google engineers together to make a better web. Over the last 20 years he’s alternated between giant companies and founding startups – BBC, The UK MultiMedia Corporation, Apple QuickTime, Technorati and now Google. The common thread has been working out how people, computers and media can complement each other, and solving the engineering and social problems where they meet. He is one of the driving forces behind microformats.org and advisor to the Open Rights group. He wants you to remember that URLs are people too, and his URL is http://epeus.blogspot.com. (description taken from here) This video was filmed at the Lift conference using the Sanyo HD1000 camcorder.


Suno Huang

Posted by – February 14, 2008

Rodrigo Sepulveda – Vpod.tv

Posted by – February 14, 2008

Rodrigo Sepulveda is the co-founder and CEO of vpod.tv which stands for video publishing on-demand TV.

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Philippe Tarbouriech

Posted by – February 14, 2008

Philippe Tarbouriech is a Photographer Technologist at http://phitar.com and worked as the producer of Sim City 3000 in the silicon valley. In this video he is talking about some of the challenges for the OLPC project in terms of being relevant in the classroom and about some of the strategies that a teacher can use to keep the attention of the students when they each have their own laptop.

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Guy Pignolet

Posted by – February 14, 2008

Guy Pignolet is a researcher at the University of La Reunion LEEP Energy Lab and is a Board Member of the Sunsat Energy Council for Space Power. He talks about Nicolas Tesla and other wireless power transfer technologies.

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William Cockayne at Lift 2008

Posted by – February 14, 2008


William Cockayne by Charbax

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Tim Duckett at Lift 2008

Posted by – February 14, 2008

Tim Duckett is a consultant at http://headshift.com

Thibaut Brage at Lift 2008 – Weetribe.com

Posted by – February 14, 2008

Weetribe.com is a travel recommendations system.

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Bruce Sterling and Jasmina Tesanovic talk about the OLPC at Lift 2008

Posted by – February 14, 2008

Science fiction writer Bruce Sterling and his wife Jasmina Tesanovic talk about their views on the OLPC project.

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Jasmina Tesanovic at Lift 2008

Posted by – February 14, 2008

Jasmina Tesanovic talks about her experience blogging from Seribia in the 90ies.

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Kushtrim Xhakli at Lift 2008

Posted by – February 14, 2008

Kushtrim Xhakli is working at the IPKO Institute in Kosovo.

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Dania Gerhardt – Amazee.com at Lift 2008

Posted by – February 14, 2008

She is head finance and operations at Amazee.com.

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Willem Horst at Lift 2008

Posted by – February 14, 2008

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Nicolas Dengler – Mixin.com at Lift 2008

Posted by – February 14, 2008

Mixin is a system that connects to existing social networks, instant messaging, email to pull out information about activities that users plan to have or want to have in the future, and then hooking those users up with their friends, their nabours or with the general public to thus meet-up with people in real life. This could change the way people meet-up to do sports, study, work and have fun.

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Catherine Nivez and Catherine Lottier at Lift 2008

Posted by – February 14, 2008

They are journalists from french news media Europe1 and Canal+ and they give us their opinion about the OLPC XO laptop.

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