Marc Andreessen: US Education Crisis–Young and Old

Why Software Is Eating The World Wall Street Journal, 20 August 2011 EN ESPANOL DOCUMENTO 5 PAJINAS This week, Hewlett-Packard (where I am on the board) announced that it is exploring jettisoning its struggling PC business in favor of investing more heavily in software, where it sees better potential for growth. Meanwhile, Google plans to …

Dolphin: USA’s First Coast to Coast Climate Network

Construction of nation’s first coast-to-coast climate network begins KSL.Com, August 7th, 2011 By Geoffrey Fattah< LOGAN — Imagine being able to put your fingers on the pulse of America’s biosphere — keeping real-time track of weather, water/soil temperature, animal populations and much more. Armed with this information, scientists would be able to detect sudden shifts …

UN + Start-Up Seek to Get Poor Online with Cell Numbers

Startup Aims to Get the Poor Online With Phone Numbers By Stephen Lawson, IDG News U.K. startup Movirtu plans to help 3 million or more people in poor countries use mobile services by giving them personal phone numbers, not phones. Working with a U.N.-affiliated initiative called Business Call to Action (BCtA), Movirtu will offer the …

Koko: Microsoft Fifth Largest Linux Company

Top Five Linux Contributor: Microsoft By Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols | July 17, 2011 Linux and Open Source Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols & Paula Rooney EXTRACT In a Linux Weekly News story, currently only available to subscribers, an analysis of Linux 3.0 contributors reveals that Microsoft was the fifth largest corporate contributer to Linux 3.0. While only …

Campaign for Liberty: Steele on IC and DoD

National Intelligence and National Defense By Robert David Steele Vivas Published 06/17/11 Right up front, here is the value proposition: a revolution in national security affairs can immediately deliver three things: 1. Permit the rapid (four years) reduction of the secret intelligence community budget from $80 billion to under $20 billion and permit the rapid …