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Consumer Electronics Shows that I video-blogged:
CeBIT
2007, 2006,
2005, 2004
IFA
2007,
2006, 2005
CES
2007
Other
E3 2006
WCIT 2006
Conferences
Reboot 2007
Lift 2007

Monthly Archives: November 2007

Sarkozy wants to ban people from using the Internet

Bush-friendly extreme right french president Sarkozy wants to disconnect people from the Internet, put people on a national database and not allow them to sign up for another ISP, then fine users up to 3 million euros and put them in jail even. This is so ridiculously funny ridiculous, putting the kids and other young […]

Intel has done everything to slow down AMD powered OLPC mass production

Intel’s agreement with the OLPC Foundation included a “non disparagement” clause, under which Intel and One Laptop promised not to criticize each other, according to Nicholas Negroponte in the latest article in the Wall Street Journal.
Still Intel tactics has violated that repeatedly to kill OLPC efforts in Nigeria, Libya, Pakistan, India, China and Intel is […]

OLPC sells 100 thousand OLPC XO laptops in 10 days through the Give 1 Get 1 program

With an average revenue of $2 million per day for the Give 1 Get 1 program, that is 100 thousand XO-1 laptops sold in 10 days. Half of these are going to developing nations.
The OLPC Foundation is extending the Give 1 Get 1 program until the 31st of December.
Source is: http://www.businesswire.com/portal/site/google/index.jsp?ndmViewId=news_view&newsId=20071122005019&newsLang=en

Scoble video of the Kindle

Awesome video, done with his cell phone (I guess the Nokia N95) while walking around his home in the Silicon Valley:

Posted at Scobleizer.com

The Amazon Kindle is awesome

I hope Amazon will add these features in a future firmware update or/and in the European HSDPA+WiFi version which is hopefully planned to be released soon:
- There should be an open RSS aggregator, one that updates feeds when the user is active or that can automatically pull feeds every once in a while and certain […]

Amazon to launch electronic book tomorrow

Built-in EVDO sounds cool. As long as the EVDO access is very reasonably priced, like somekind of very affordable per MB cost with no monthly payment or something like that.
I wish the wireless was HSDPA and compatible with wireless data around the world, even built-in WiFi would have been nice.
As it loads New York Times […]

One day Microsoft will open-source Windows XP

I think it’s great that Microsoft is investing millions of dollars in making a thin version of Windows XP for the XO-1 laptop. That is just really great of Microsoft.
What is really sad, is that Nigeria and Libya are getting relatively low volumes of bloated Classmate laptops. They chose to get a few tens of […]

Ségolène Royal is better for France

I was there during the french presidential campaign in France, when I was filming the 462 videos for http://sego.tv with a selection at http://videos.desirsdavenir.org. I was invited a few times during the campaign when I was in Paris to the campaign headquarters as I was working with the webmaster team.
This video was filmed just a […]