Top stories for the week of July 2006: iPod’s Cracking Halo; Flat-Panel Chaos; Cranking up the $100 Laptop
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Chip maker collaborates with banks and Microsoft to make it easy for users to pay for computers.
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Chip maker will invest in making technology more widely available in the developing world.
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Seeing its technology headed mainstream, ThingMagic opens up to outside investment.
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MIT’s $100 laptop is Internet bridge over poverty; IBM acquires Collation; Alcatel gets over down under.
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Blocked in saturated developed markets, startups and major companies are targeting lower-income regions, giving them cheaper—and sometimes better—products than those in the West.
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MIT’s Nicholas Negroponte pushes a cheap PC for the rest of the world.
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