That’s great news, OLPC is starting the “Give 1 Get 1″-initiative on november 12. You buy two XO laptops for $399, one for a child in a developing nation, the other one for your child. You can sign up here for a simple e-mail reminder.

Starting November 12, One Laptop Per Child will be offering a [...]

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In the year 1901 — exactly 105 years ago today — Guglielmo Marconi was the first who transmitted transatlantic wireless signals from Poldhu, Cornwall to Signal Hill, St. John’s, Newfoundland.

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Yahoo anncounced the first event of an open micro-conference series:
“We started confab.yahoo because we want to push the web and its applications up to the next level. After slightly more than a decade, we as an industry have only scratched the surface of the web’s potential. The opportunities are virtually infinite, and we aim to [...]

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Die Entwicklung des Jetcar wurde 1998 von den Brüdern Christian Wenger-Rosenau und Michael Wenger begonnen. Die Grundidee war, ein leichtes, strömungsgünstiges Fahrzeug mit extrem niedrigem Kraftstoffverbrauch zu entwickeln. Dies sollte durch einen leichten Stahlrahmen, eine GFK-Karosserie und den Einsatz eines kleinvolumigen Dieselmotors erreicht werden.

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Ein Design, dass dem Windkanal hat natürlich den großen Vorteil wenig Treibstoff [...]

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