When is an UMPC not an UMPC?
When it’s a 9″ UMPC.
The infamous little EeePC is getting bigger by two whole inches.
Coming out next year with a bigger screen, the EeePC will still be running Linux but will also be available with Windows XP.
Compared to the original 7″ EeePC the 9″ model is not that much bigger, so will still be relatively just as portable.
Engadget on the 9″ EeePC, ASUS’ 9-inch Eee PC and Hands-on with the 9-inch Eee PC.
I really enjoyed reading Bill Thompson’s column on the BBC News website this week, where he wonders about how technology will change teaching.
If every student has a powerful network device that plugs them into the network, and work on digitising every book and other forms of knowledge has been successful, then what is the point of teaching “facts”?
He makes the very valid point.
Just as we try to encourage kids today to learn enough mental arithmetic to decide whether to believe the calculator’s answer, so we need those using tomorrow’s vast supercomputers to have a sense of what is going on that will allow them to judge the validity of the answers they get.
Overall an interesting column, well worth a read.
BBC reports on the end of an era for the web icon which once had 90% of the browser market.
A web browser that gave many people their first experience of the web is set to disappear.
Netscape Navigator, now owned by AOL, will no longer be supported after 1 March 2008, the company has said.
In the mid-1990s, as the commercial web began to take off, the browser was used by more than 90% of people online.
Its market share has since slipped to just 0.6% as other browsers such as Microsoft’s Internet Explorer (IE) and Firefox have eroded its user base.
BBC reports
The European Commission is spending 55m euros (£42m) on making the net a safer place for children.
The money will be spent over four years on educational efforts and ways to protect children from inappropriate content and cyber bullying.
Read more.