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Interview: OLPC's Michail Bletsas Part 2 [of 2]

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2008-01-21 17:00:00 by Brian Heater in Gearlog
...Nigerian keyboard, the exit of the company's chief technology officer, the end of its successful Give One, Get One program, and of course, a very public falling out with its one-time backer, Intel In the first part of my interview with OLPC's Chief Connectivity Officer, Michail Bletsas, we discussed the fate of the Give One, Get One program...
 
Tags: market, market worth, potential market, nigeria keyboard, keyboard, amd inside laptops, laptops, low-cost laptop market, intel cared
 
 
 
 
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Nigerian firm wins interim injunction against OLPC, asks for $20M in damages

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2008-01-02 14:33:00 by Nilay Patel in Engadget
...Nigerian keyboard patent infringement case against OLPC is underway, and it hasn't started out too well for Nick Neg and co.: the court has granted LANCOR's motion for an interim injunction against OLPC, meaning the XO can't be imported or sold in Nigeria. On top of that, LANCOR is now asking for $20M in damages, and has been searching the...
 
Tags: olpc, interim injunction, lancor, nigeria, exhaustive summary, nick neg, 20m, damages, offices
 
 
 
 
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Solar Power Helps Water Crops

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2008-02-20 12:47:15 by Noel in Unplugged Living
...Nigeria, how they water their crops is highly unique. They toned up and reconfigured a couple of old machines so that they now become water pumps. When completed, these old-machines-turned-water-pumps start working using solar power. I find that really unique and Im starting to wonder if people here in the Philippines could make something...
 
Tags: water, solar power, crops, unique, water pumps, highly unique, nigeria, philippines, staple food
 
 
 
 
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Motorola Wins US$431 Million GSM Contracts with China Mobile

2008-08-06 19:24:28 by Maximus in Just Another Mobile Phone Blog
 
...Nigeria in Nigeria. Besides, Motorola won a turnkey contract in March to deploy and manage GSM network for Zain in Saudi Arabia Ruey-Bin Kao, President of Motorola China, said: Motorola has worked with China Mobile for over 20 years. As a long-term strategic partner of China Mobile, we continue to provide China Mobile with a state-of-the-art...
 
Tags: china, china mobile, motorola china, enable china mobile, china mobile deploys, provide china mobile, china mobile strives, motorola, contracts
 
 
 
 
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AdMob: Africas mobile web traffic increased 21% from Q1 to Q2 2008

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2008-08-26 20:39:30 by dusanb in IntoMobile
...Nigeria and Egypt. The company has seen traffic increase 21% since they began tracking the Africa market in Q1 2008. The report also noted that Nokia dominates device marketshare throughout Africa, with 50.6% of the market the Finnish giant is the most popular device manufacturer in South Africa, Nigeria, Kenya, Egypt and Tanzania Worldwide...
 
Tags: mobile, mobile web, traffic, admob, mobile internet usage, worldwide traffic, usage, africa, south africa
 
 
 
 
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How would you change the OLPC XO?

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2007-07-30 19:10:00 by Alex Vorn in Tech Gadget Blog
...Nigeria -- NickNeg and friends should probably stop wasting time with those ineffective filters and simply make the machines incapable of displaying flesh tones instead
 
Tags: traditional format, machines incapable, full-scale production, consumer products, financial prudence, alienware-esque specs, pretty silly, proud owner, open-source software
 
 
 
 
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Top Five Photographers of 2007

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2007-12-25 10:28:25 by HASH0x8472604 in Cool Hunting
...Nigeria photographing of a troupe of animal charmers and their collection of hyenas, monkeys and snakes. The series is mystical and exotic, like moments pulled from science fiction Taryn Simon Taryn Simon opens up America's cabinet of curiosities by documenting off-limit zones like quarantine sites, nuclear waste facilities, death rows and...
 
Tags: lori nix, lori nix photographs, pieter hugo, taryn simon, lisa kereszi, love photos, perennial cool, love, transform everyday spaces
 
 
 
 
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My Dear One: Many Joys of the Season, YOUR OLPC PROJECT owes us $20 million

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2008-01-02 21:40:46 by John Biggs in CrunchGear
Nigerian company LANCOR is suing the OLPC project for infringing on their Nigerian keyboard design, causing us to wonder if some sort of 419 spamming virus hasnt infiltrated the Nigerian judicial system, rendering completely useless. The suit holds that the OLPC uses extra keys to allow users to type using the Nigerian alphabet. While this is...
 
Tags: olpc, olpc project, olpc groklaw, olpc-alike, nigerian company lancor, lancor, nigerian keyboard design, design, nigerian judicial system
 
 
 
 
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OLPC Gets 419'd In Nigeria

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2008-01-03 07:02:39 by Rob Beschizza in Gadget Lab
...Nigerian company. It sucks to do business in the world's most corrupt nations, but there you go. The real question of course, is who has made the best "Nigerian Spam" joke at OLPC maker Nicholas Negroponte's expense. The answer is Valleywag I HEREBY REQUEST YOUR HELP AND ASSISTANCE TO HELP SEND ME TRANSFER THIS US$20,000,000.00(TWENTY...
 
Tags: nigerian court valleywag, valleywag, million, business, twenty million, lucrative business, laptop, child sued, campaign rallies