Monthly Archives: October 2006

MIDP on the OLPC

28th
Oct. × ’06
By Mihai Preda

The One laptop per child (OLPC) project aims to develop a $100 laptop, with the goal of enabling children education. The project is interesting not only because of the very ambitious price target, but also because it explores new directions in the hardware design of mobile devices:
- very power efficient: It has a 1.1 Watt [...]

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Convergence

27th
Oct. × ’06
By Mihai Preda

I’m about to buy a new phone.
I wanted a phone that can take acceptable pictures, so that I’ll be able to finally get rid of the digital camera (because I never have the camera with me when I need it). Acceptable pictures, I guess, means 2M or 3M resolution, with good image quality. Good image [...]

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In the News

13th
Oct. × ’06
By Mihai Preda

PayPal finally comes to Poland! Now polish residents can receive payments through PayPal. Look at the PayPal’s list of supported countries, and you’ll see Poland is on the short list of 14 countries.
Hans Reiser was arrested, as a suspect on his wife’s disappearance. I am very sorry for this. Hans Reiser is a sort of [...]

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