Negroponte
RSS NegroponteDiamond trader spends $16.5m on IT outsource
News Nicholas Negroponte The Diamond Trading Company (DTC) has signed a seven-year IT outsourcing services contract with Unisys worth around $16.5m. Under the contract, DTC - the London-based sales and marketing arm of the De... [20 Nov 2007]
CIO Essentials: MS licensing, Tesco CIO and online shopping
News Nicholas Negroponte Ever wondered what CIOs are reading on silicon.com? Our CIO Essentials feature puts you in the picture. Each week a leading IT chief picks his or her top stories from the past seven days and explains... [20 Nov 2007]
Betfair betting engine goes supersonic
Case Study Nicholas Negroponte Betfair has developed a new core betting engine that can process staggering volumes of bets per second and significantly reduce the cost of each transaction. Agenda Setters 2007 - Top 20 [15 Nov 2007]
Tesco IT chief steps down
News Nicholas Negroponte Tesco's IT chief is stepping down from the retail giant after six years to pursue a new challenge. Group IT director Colin Cobain is leaving at the end of November after leading the IT implementation... [14 Nov 2007]
Online Wall Street Journal goes sub free
News Nicholas Negroponte Rupert Murdoch plans to give away the digital version of The Wall Street Journal for free, making News Corp the latest company to steer away from paid subscriptions. Agenda Setters 2007 - Top 20 [14 Nov 2007]
Web 2.0 techies sacrifice pay for shares
News Nicholas Negroponte The majority of people looking to work for web 2.0 start-up companies are prepared to sacrifice pay in exchange for shares in the venture they're joining. More than 75 per cent of candidates joining... [13 Nov 2007]
$100 laptop production gets underway
News Nicholas Negroponte, founder and chairman of the OLPC, said: "Today represents an important milestone in the evolution of the One Laptop per Child project. Following a number of delays, the One Laptop per Child... [07 Nov 2007]
The Weekly Round-Up: 02.11.07
Round-Up Thankfully, the Uruguayan government has put an end to the increasing anxiety of OLPC organisation founder Nicholas Negroponte. Negroponte recently reportedly told The New York Times: "I have to some... [02 Nov 2007]
Nicholas Negroponte
AS Profile Negroponte founded the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's innovative Media Lab in 1985, which has been carrying out important research into communications ever since. The panel felt that... [12 Oct 2007]
Trevor Baylis
AS Profile If Baylis hadn't raised the possibility of helping Africa by using technology such as his hand-cranked radio, it could be argued that number 6 in the Agenda Setter list, Nicholas Negroponte, might not have come up with... [12 Oct 2007]
Buy one $100 laptop, give one 'free'
News OLPC chair Nicholas Negroponte wrote on the XO donation site: "Starting 12 November, One Laptop Per Child will be offering a Give 1 Get 1 programme for a brief window of time. The One Laptop Per Child scheme has... [25 Sep 2007]
The Weekly Round-Up: 27.07.07
Round-Up The OLPC organisation, headed up by Nicholas Negroponte, claims it has already received more than three million orders for the green-and-white machines, which look like the result of a frantic, drunken coupling between a... [27 Jul 2007]
Brampton Factor: Bringing tech to the developing world
Comment Rival hardware schemes by Intel and Nicholas Negroponte's One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) project are beginning to deliver trial quantities of products. But what are the deeper motives - and the best approaches? [17 Jul 2007]
Intel signs up to $100 laptop
News After years of squabbling, Intel and Nicholas Negroponte have agreed to put their differences behind them and join forces in bringing PCs to children around the world. Negroponte's One Laptop Per Child... [16 Jul 2007]
Cheat Sheet: The $100 laptop
Cheat Sheet Nicholas Negroponte is chairman of that organisation. But Negroponte rejects the idea the developing world does not need a low-cost laptop. Basically some clever types are trying to build a load of... [29 May 2007]
