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...better educational opportunities. So they designed a solar-powered Internet network that is inexpensive, easy to install and nearly maintenance free. At its heart is a regional hub from which wireless relay stations - some bolted to trees - fan out for up to four miles and connect a network of PCs. Total cost, including solar panels and relay stations: $1,995. One year later, Nyarukamba is already reaping the benefits. Village income is rising, thanks to improved access to market prices for crops and co-ops formed with other villages. Buying power has increased, health outcomes are improving, and more people...
...software version launching next month will let users create and share their own guides using Schmap's mapping technology, thus allowing every amateur art critic and street-corner gourmet to post their own roundups of local galleries and restaurants. And while the software only works on desktop PCs for the moment, Hallett says a version for handheld devices is coming next year. Think they'll call it Schmobile...
Lenovo was founded in Beijing in 1984 by 11 free-thinking researchers with $25,000 from a science academy. It markets PCs for every possible customer, from the top-of-the-line Pentium speedster to $300 bare-bones desktops. The growth potential for Lenovo in its home market appears limitless. IDC forecasts that PC sales in China will jump 57% from 2006 to 2010, to 36 million units. The U.S. market will reach 68 million units...
...company has already used Chinese know-how to score impressive results in that other great Asian emerging market, India. After being trained in Beijing, Lenovo's India managers increased the number of resellers nearly 40%, to 1,100 so far this year. Chinese-designed PCs were introduced to expand the product line and Bollywood stars hired to pump up the brand. India is also introducing Lenovo's SMS information system, by which distributors send daily sales reports. That allows managers to quickly adjust prices and product mix based on real-time data. Results? Lenovo's India sales jumped...
Ever since the world's geeks started downloading episodes of Star Trek to their PCs, Hollywood and Silicon Valley execs have been preparing for the day when the world's nontechies will also get their movie fixes (legally) online. That day took a step closer to reality last week, when Apple announced it would sell movie downloads through its iTunes store. The move raised the prospect that downloading flicks will take off among folks who don't know or care what a d-RAM chip is (that's pretty much everyone). Apple, after all, has sold more than 1.5 billion...