It's official (and somewhat obvious, really) -- cloud computing is on the rise. Tasks that used to be relegated to the desktop are finding new homes in the cloud, from document creation and media sharing, to running entire companies.
And with that...
The dream of making low-cost computing and internet access available to underprivileged third-world communities is a fairly old one. The poster child of this effort is arguably the One Laptop Per Child initiative, a non-profit formed in January 2005 ...
First came the promise of the OLPC, then came the Asus Eee PC, and life got good. Now that Pandora's box has been opened, a hell spawn of so-called netbooks are flooding the market creating confusion, and completely eroding the good work done by the ...