by Larry Richman | Jul 9, 2006
Notes from the 15th International World Wide Web Conference in Scotland (May 22-26, 2006): Mobile devices constitute the newest and biggest access media ever. There may be 3 billion cell phones by next year. It is estimated that in 2008, more people will access the...
by Larry Richman | Jul 7, 2006
An article in Infoworld explains the One Laptop Per Child initiative, which aims to produce a $100 laptop computer for distribution to children in developing countries. It features a hand crank that generates the two watts of power the machine needs to operate, it...
by Larry Richman | Jul 6, 2006
In late in 2005, the world reached a milestone as Internet access became available to one billion people worldwide. Approximately 845 million use it regularly. Asia-Pacific is the largest broadband region containing nearly 40% of the world’s broadband...
by Larry Richman | Jul 5, 2006
This blog includes my notes from (and thoughts about) a talk entitled “The New Economy – An Engineer’s Perspective” given by David Brown (Chairman of Motorola) at the 15th International World Wide Web Conference in Scotland (May 22-26, 2006). People buy 900,000 mobile...