Arabic-language ICT Support: Personalize Google in Arabic

Personalize Google in Arabic. AME Info. Online November 2007. Arabic-language web surfers can now customize their Google homepage with information and applications from over 10,000 sources around the world. The personalized homepage's innovative design enables users to drag and drop "sections" in order to arrange the page as they want. Yasmina Brihi, Country Marketing Manager, Middle East North Africa, said Google users have expressed a desire to view more of the information they want in a single place.

A Little Laptop With Big Ambitions

Update on Low-Cost Laptops: How a Computer for the PoorGot Stomped by Tech Giants. Steve Stecklow and James Bandler. Wall Street Journal. Online November 2007. … Negroponte's ambitious plan has been derailed, in part, by the power of his idea. For-profit companies threatened by the projected $100 price tag set off at a sprint to develop their own dirt-cheap machines, plunging Mr. Negroponte into unexpected competition against well-known brands such as Intel Corp. and Microsoft Corp.'s Windows operating system. …

Update from Low-cost Laptops: Light, sweet and not crude at all

Light, sweet and not crude at all. Peter Wayner. IHT. Online November 2007. The Asus Eee PC … 2 pounds, or 1 kilogram, …$400. … small seven-inch screen, a tight but complete keyboard, a flash disk drive, a relatively slow processor and a stripped-down version of the Linux operating system that runs the Firefox browser and Open Office productivity software. … Web-centered model of software delivery. .… there are instructions for installing Windows XP on the machine.

Update from OLPC Project: The OLPC Wiki.

The OLPC Wiki. Online October 2007. Ginny notes: This wiki is an open site for reporting/commenting/questioning about the One Laptop per Child (OLPC) project. It contains descriptions, developer and user pages, reports from the field about recent and current implementation trials for the OLPC, and whatever else interested people want to contribute. This site is a ripe and rich example of dissemination of knowledge and experience. Particularly interesting are the reports by Carla Gomez Monroy about the pilot in Arahuay, Perú.

Update from Projects: Low-cost laptop deals heat up.

Low-cost laptop deals heat up. Intel, OLPC supply special computers to students in developing nations. eSchool News staff and wire service reports. eSchool News. Online November 2007. …Within hours of the news that Uruguay had become the first nation to buy (100,000) XO laptops from … (OLPC) … Intel Corp. countered by unveiling deals with two African nations to purchase its Classmate PCs. … OLPC's … "$100 laptop," … costs nearly $200. Intel and Microsoft … are supplying Libya's government with 150,000 Classmate PCs … cost about $200 to build. …