Web 2.0 Enabled $100 Laptop Will Reach Children in February

August 18th, 2006 The ambitious One Laptop Per Child program, which began at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Media Lab, to provide low-cost laptop computers to poor children around the world is about to take a big step forward. More than 500 children in Thailand are expected to receive the machines in October and November for quality testing and debugging.

March 27th, 2009 One needs to look for certain things before he invests into anything. While our article, Top 10 points to keep in mind before you buy your first desktop was accepted pretty coolly by others, we thought of following it up with a re-search on laptop.

May 14th, 2006 I was watching a TV infomercial which argued in favor of HIV positive children attending schools with other HIV negative students. On the surface it appears the humanly thing to do but is it really logical (and humanly) to allow HIV+ students to attend normal schools? In school children are known to get into fights, bruises from various causes are common.

December 7th, 2005 Today I see fewer applets on the web. In many cases they are hidden and are used to perform specialized non-visual tasks.

June 21st, 2006 A Dell laptop sudenly exploded into flames, in what could have been a deadly accident, at a Japanese conference. "The damn thing was on fire and produced several explosions for more than five minutes" via The Inquirer I suspect it is the battery.

September 13th, 2005 A 31 year old Dutchman returned from work to find a strange car in the drive of his home in Pieterburen, near Groningen. Two children were sitting on the back seat so the man asked them where their father was and was told that his father was inside, "robbing" the house.

August 11th, 2005 Research by McGill-affiliated Douglas Hospital Research Centre in Montreal demonstrated that mothers who breastfeed respond less to stressful situations than those who bottle-feed their children. These findings suggest these mothers may be better able to care for their children.

April 24th, 2009 Always but always our laptops run out of juice just when we needed to make the vital presentation at the seminar or had something really worth doing. It doesn't depend upon the models these days because even a Macbook Pro can leave you stupid if not religiously charged every day and to the full.

March 10th, 2006 I have heard and seen enough of Origami, the futuristic laptop from Microsoft. I went through the apparently secret video of product advertisement, I have seen numerous pictures of origami and I have decided.

June 5th, 2009 LONDON - A new software program can provide a better means of communications for children who are suffering from cerebral palsy. Scientists claim that the 'How was school today?' software is the first technology of its kind to allow children with communication problems to converse in a better manner.

September 7th, 2009 Kolkata, Sept 7 (IBNS) Everonn Education Limited, pioneers in the field of technology-enabled education, has launched Educating India, a nation-wide initiative aimed at enabling access to quality education for students across varied age groups. Towards this, Everonn Education will support socially committed and motivated individuals to set up quality educational institutions, catering to different educational segments, across the length and breadth of the country.

July 31st, 2006 Popular social networking sites like such as MySpace, Bebo, Facebook, Friendster faces ban in US schools & libraries. The Deleting Online Predators Act tries to limit the access of paedophiles to the networking sites which have become hugely popular with minors.

September 29th, 2005 Nicholas Negroponte, the co-founder of the Media Lab at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, detailed specifications for a $100 windup-powered laptop targeted at children in developing nations. Negroponte, who laid out his original proposal at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, in January, said MIT and his nonprofit group, called One Laptop Per Child, is in discussions with five countries - Brazil, China, Thailand, Egypt and South Africa - to distribute up to 15 million test systems to children.

July 31st, 2006 This is the third reported case of Dell Laptops exploding in flames, this time in Singapore. Register reports another Dell notebook, a Latitude D410, has burst into flames.

June 20th, 2007 Attorney General Jim Hood said his office is reviewing 162 identifiable records of registered Missisippi sex offenders provided by MySpace. "MySpace has assured us that the sex offenders they reported to us have been removed from the site," said Hood.