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May, 2009 Vol 12, 05
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Month, 2009 Volume 12
IBM Creates Racetrack Solid-State Memory

• 100 times cheaper and faster than current flash
  drive technologies
• A Racetrack MP3 player 500,000 songs or 3,500
  full motion pictures

massive amounts of personal storage that could
run on a single battery for weeks at a time and
last for decades.
IBM Press Release
India Places Order for 250,000 OLPCs

• Powered by Vias C7-M processor up to 1GHz
  speeds
• OLPC 2009 target sales to India 3 million units

We are in talks with several urban schools and so
far have sales of around 1 million units in the
pipeline.
Satish Jha, OLPC India President
Google Announces Support of RDFa Markups

• Gives meaning to web page data the next step
  toward the Semantic Web
• Googles 72 search market share adds clout to
  advancing Web 3.0

The Semantic Web is not a separate Web but an
extension of the current one, in which
information is given well-defined meaning, better
enabling computers and people to work in
cooperation.
Tim Berners-Lee, W3C
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IBM Creates Racetrack Solid-State Memory

• 100 times cheaper and faster than current flash
  drive technologies
• A Racetrack MP3 player could hold 500,000 songs
  or 3,500 full motion pictures
• In the consumer marketplace lt 10 years

this technology could enable a handheld device
such as an mp3 player to store around 500,000
songs or around 3,500 movies 100 times more
than is possible today with far lower cost and
power consumption. The devices would not only
store vastly more information in the same space,
but also require much less power and generate
much less heat, and be practically unbreakable
the result massive amounts of personal storage
that could run on a single battery for weeks at a
time and last for decades.
IBM press release
http//www-03.ibm.com/press/us/en/pressrelease/238
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http//www.montrealgazette.com/technology/Racetrac
kspeedsmemory/1488396/story.html
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India Places Order for 250,000 OLPCs

• Powered by Vias C7-M processor up to 1GHz
  speeds
• OLPC 2009 target sales to India 3 million units

Wireless networking Integrated 802.11b/g
(2.4GHz) interface 802.11s (Mesh) networking
supported dual adjustable, rotating coaxial
antennas supports diversity reception capable
of mesh operation when CPU is powered down
We are in talks with several urban schools and so
far have sales of around 1 million units in the
pipeline.
Satish Jha, OLPC India President
Brazil
Nigeria
Thailand
India
http//arstechnica.com/gadgets/news/2009/04/india-
embraces-olpc-buys-250000-xo-laptops.ars
http//www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/1638
13/india_sierra_leone_place_olpc_orders.html
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Google Announces Support of RDFa Markups

• RDFa Resource Description Framework with
  Attributes
• Gives meaning to web page data the next step
  toward the Semantic Web
• Googles 72 search market share adds clout to
  advancing Web 3.0

The current Web is primarily made up of an
enormous number of documents that have been
created using HTML. These documents contain
significant amounts of structured data, which is
largely unavailable to tools and applications.
When publishers can express this data more
completely, and when tools can read it, a new
world of user functionality becomes available,
letting users transfer structured data between
applications and web sites, and allowing browsing
applications to improve the user experience an
event on a web page can be directly imported into
a user's desktop calendar a license on a
document can be detected so that users can be
informed of their rights automatically a photo's
creator, camera setting information, resolution,
location and topic can be published as easily as
the original photo itself, enabling structured
search and sharing.
HTML
HTML with RDFa Markup
ltdivgt ltdivgt 79 of 98 people found the
following review helpful lt/divgt ltdivgt
ltspangt5.0 out of 5 starslt/spangt
ltspangtltbgtAmerican Biographer Jon
Meachamlt/bgt/spangt lt/divgtlt/divgt
ltdiv xmlnsv"http//rdf.data-vocabulary.org "
typeof"vreview"gt ltdivgt 79 of 98 people
found the following review helpful lt/divgt
ltdivgt ltspangtltspan property"vrating"gt5.0
out of 5 starslt/spangt ltspangtltbgtAmerican
Biographer Jon Meachamlt/bgt/spangt lt/divgt
The Semantic Web is not a separate Web but an
extension of the current one, in which
information is given well-defined meaning, better
enabling computers and people to work in
cooperation.
Tim Berners-Lee, W3C
http//radar.oreilly.com/2009/05/google-announces-
support-for-m.html
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Short Takes
Possible future of online news citizen
journalists used in conjunctionwith hyperlocal
exclusive community coverage in a tight
geographic area.
There are more opportunities now for
entrepreneurs to figure out a system. ... It's
going to be tough but, in general, news is vital
to our democracy. If it dies, so does the
democracy.
http//www.cnn.com/2009/TECH/05/01/future.online.n
ews.hyperlocal/index.html?ireft2test_techtues
Brooklyn novelist uses his thumbs to write
400-page, 100,000 word best seller sci-fi
novel during daily commute to NYC.
I started out just trying to take notes. I'd sit
on the subway, I'd get a good idea and I'd jot
something down. I got very fast at writing with
my thumbs. I found myself writing more and more.
http//www.nydailynews.com/ny_local/brooklyn/2009/
04/22/2009-04-22_train_of_thought_bklyn_writer_fou
nd_muse__wrote_first_novel_while_commuting_on_t.ht
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Revolutionary Wolfram search engine debuts, that
understands and responds to ordinary language in
the same way a person does.
If you ask it to compare the height of Mount
Everest to the length of the Golden Gate Bridge,
it will tell you. Or ask what the weather was
like in London on the day John F Kennedy was
assassinated, it will cross-check and provide
the answer. Ask it about D sharp major, it will
play the scale.What are the wider implications
exactly? A new paradigm for using computers and
the web? Probably. Emerging artificial
intelligence and a step towards a self-organising
internet? Possibly... I think this could be big.
http//www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-an
d-tech/news/an-invention-that-could-change-the-int
ernet-for-ever-1678109.html
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Committed to developing media-rich, interactive
publishing platforms dedicated to the premise of
multi-cultural education accessible, economical,
and serving the unique needs of the user in an
ever-changing world.
Just imagine A textbook designed for todays
interactive producer of news, information and
entertainment an A to Z guide on envisioning,
creating, editing, packaging, and user
interaction for effective global communication!
Just imagine
Dr. Harry Sova has worked 35-years in the mass
media field, authored several educational
resources and designed an automated music video
complex for an Orlando-based theme park. He holds
a Bachelors of Arts degree in Speech, the Masters
of Arts degree in Radio-Television-Film and the
Ph.D. in Mass Communication.
Lee Graham has worked in many various roles in
the eLearning field over the five years,
specializing in design and development of
eLearning solutions. He has worked with clients
such as Tyco Electronics, Discovery Education,
National Institute of Health, United Technologies
Corporation and the Abraxas Corporation. He holds
a Bachelors of Science degree in Communication.
http//trimagination.com/mediatoday
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