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The Internet: A Candidate for the Nobel Peace Prize

Sarmad Ali, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on March 11, 2010 at 2:00 pm PT

The Internet has been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize for 2010–but should it be? The nomination was proposed by the Italian version of technology magazine Wired and has so far been endorsed by 11 people including 2003 Nobel Peace Prize winner Shirin Ebadi and Nicholas Negroponte, founder of One Laptop Per Child.

Attention Publishers: Here’s a Fantasy Tablet for Your Fantasy Tablet Magazines

Peter Kafka in Media on December 22, 2009 at 4:03 pm PT

Since we’ve spent the past few months dreaming about what a magazine might look like on a tablet from the future, why not do a little dreaming about the tablet itself? Sound good? Then take a gander at the XO-3, a superlight, supercheap tablet that the people from One Laptop Per Child think they’d like to have available in 2012.

How to Add Color to a Kindle: Pixel Qi’s Cheap Screens

Peter Kafka in Media on June 23, 2009 at 3:00 am PT

Amazon’s Kindle gets many plaudits, but it also gets one consistent criticism: Why can’t it come with a color screen? It can, say the folks at Pixel Qi, a start-up based in Silicon Valley and Taiwan: It could use the cheap, lightweight color screens that we’re going to make.

Boy, Apple’s Design Aesthetic Really Didn’t Rub Off on Kindle 1.0 at All, Did It?

John Paczkowski in News on May 6, 2009 at 3:45 am PT

What propitious timing. At a press conference in New York City later this morning, Amazon is expected to announce a new large-screen Kindle designed for reading periodicals and textbooks. And yesterday, on the eve of that announcement, came word that the company had been awarded a patent on the original Kindle design. The patent, #D591,741, is entitled “Electronic media reader” and it makes just a single claim.

Could iRex Be the Company Making News Corp.’s Kindle? Mmmmmaybe.

Peter Kafka in Media on April 15, 2009 at 9:24 am PT

The Dutch firm already makes a line of e-book readers and says it will have an innovative color screen ready next year. And its CEO confirms it has talked to News Corp. But there’s no deal yet.

OLPC Foundation Annouces “Keep One, Fire One” Employee Drive

John Paczkowski in News on January 8, 2009 at 7:38 am PT

Since its launch four years ago, the One Laptop Per Child foundation has fallen far short of its initial goal of supplying Third World countries with 150 million laptops by the end of 2008. To date, little more than 500,000 children have received laptops. Though a noble idea, providing $100 $200 laptops to children in developing nations clearly hasn’t quite caught on. So it was only a matter of time before the project was forced to rejigger its operations.