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One iPad per Child (OipC)

Starting thinking today that the iPad with some modifications  could be used to provide universal computing and information services to the world’s poor as a One iPad per Child (OipC).  Such a solution could easily replace the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) that exists today with a more commercially viable product. From my perspective only [...]

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Free P2P-Cloud Storage and Computing Services?

What would happen if somebody came up with a peer-to-peer cloud (P2P-Cloud) storage or computing service.  I see this as Operating a little like Napster/Gnutella where many people come together and share out their storage/computing resources. It could operate in a centralized or decentralized fashion It  would allow access to data/computing resources anywhere from the [...]

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