http://techcrunch.com – The story sounded far-fetched: OLPC researchers, working with a team of technicians in Ethiopia, created a special “hut” covered in solar panels where the children of a few distant towns could go to recharge some toys they were given. The toys were boxed Motorola Xoom tablets and every child between the age of four and eight got one. (IT news)
Email this pagehttp://techcrunch.com – The Pioneers Festival kicked off in Vienna this week and by the looks of the 2,300 attendees at the amazing Hofburg Imperial palace, the conference is shaping up to be a stand-out event in Europe, not least because it is enormously upbeat and positive. Something we need more of in Europe. (IT news)
Email this pagehttp://techcrunch.com – Carl Icahn could be on the warpath again, this time with Netflix as his target. Through a number of investment vehicles, Icahn has taken what amounts to a 9.98 percent stake in the subscription video company. Icahn, of course, is best known as an activist shareholder who advocates for change in companies that he believes are not well run, and as a result, undervalued. (IT news)
Email this pagehttp://askubuntu.com – My Evolution email client keeps forgetting all settings after a reboot or even a logout/login! Please help! I have recently installed Ubuntu 12.04 on a new laptop. To move my Evolution settings and email over to the new machine, I selected "backup", which creates a single tar.gz archive of all Evolution settings and mail. (HowTos)
Email this pagehttp://techcrunch.com – “Palmer was hanged outside Stafford Prison on 14th June 1856, watched by an enormous crowd of some 30,000 people. (IT news)
Email this pagehttp://ubuntuforums.org – http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue 289 for the week October 22 - 28, 2012. Links to UWN Wiki page: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuWeeklyNewsletter/Issue289 In This Issue Ubuntu Core On The Nexus 7 Raring Ringtail Ubuntu Developer Summit Ubuntu 11.04 (Natty Narwhal) end-of-life reached on October 28, 2012 Welcome New Members and Deve (Hardware)
Email this pagehttp://askubuntu.com – Everything was running smoothly. Everything had been downloaded from Internet, packages had been installed and a prompt asked for some obsolete programs/files to be removed or kept. After that the computer crashed and and to manually force a shutdown. I turned it on again and surprise I was on 12.10! Still the upgrade was not finished! (HowTos)
Email this pagehttp://www.itwire.com – Written by: Graeme Philipson | Published in: C LevelTelstra is changing. Australia’s largest telco has a long history of evolution, and from necessity reinvents itself every decade or so. It is currently undergoing yet another reinvention. (IT news)
Email this pagehttp://www.talkandroid.com – Hear ye, hear ye! Smartphones for one and all! Qualcomm has announced a breakthrough in smartphone interfacing to allow the visually impaired access to the smartphone technology we all know and love. The new interface, named Project Ray, adapts to user preferences and habits to allow easier access to commonly used actions such as contacts, SMS, and the dialer. (IT news)
Email this pagehttp://www.talkandroid.com – Since the introduction of cell phones back in the 1970′s, mobile technology has progressed faster than many had ever anticipated. To better portray the broad history that has surrounded the mobile industry, HTC has composed a clever chart detailing the various milestones that have been reached over the years. (IT news)
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