Gates foundation is trying to bring advantages of Internet to developing countries: Â The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has announced the expansion of its Global Libraries Initiative, a project that will invest $328 million over seven years to help developing…
Computers in Libraries in Developing countries
Negroponte’s $100 Computer for developing world
Negroponte has been talking about the $100 computer for revolutionizing education in poor countries — it seems that finally he has a prototype for $150. See NYT article. “I think it’s wonderful that the machines can be put in the…
Seraja Updates
Seraja is making steady progress. You can now upload event reports from mobile phones. As the announcement says:  SEraja Reporter, an application designed for your mobile phone, now enables you to capture and upload multimedia content (images, audio clips, video…
EventWeb 15: Participatory Urban Sensing
At RESCUE center, there was a very interesting presentation by Estrin, Burke, and Srivastava on use of mobile sensors as an organic sensor networks that could be used for many interesting applications. These researchers have been leaders in sensor networks. They used…
End of DVD!!!
The way things are going, DVD may become extinct or a remote secondary mechanism for distributing content. NYT has an article that summarizes the direction of content delivery. The decade-old DVD moved two small steps closer yesterday to technology’s endangered-species…