ICTD News for 08 February 2007

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CONTENTS

E-BUSINESS
	Why Software Business Models of the Future Probably Won't Come in a Box
	Google Steps Into Microsoft's Office
	'Mobile eCash' could change the face of commerce

EDUCATION/E-LEARNING
	High Security for $100 Laptop




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E-BUSINESS
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---- Why Software Business Models of the Future Probably Won't Come in a Box
What emerges from this new software world order remains to be seen, but Wharton experts agree that Vista may be one of the last monolithic software product launches. Wharton professors expect the business model behind new versions of Windows to change. "Software as something you buy in a box is going away, because it's more efficient to deliver and update it through the network," says Werbach.
http://www.sdnp.undp.org/perl/news/articles.pl?id=9310&do=gpage



---- Google Steps Into Microsoft's Office
Soon, it's expected to add word-processing and spreadsheet services to the suite, which includes an online calendar, chat service, and Web page builder. In coming weeks, Google Apps will turn into a real business as Google begins charging corporations a subscription fee amounting to a few dollars per person per month.
http://www.sdnp.undp.org/perl/news/articles.pl?id=9307&do=gpage



---- 'Mobile eCash' could change the face of commerce
The mobile phone probably is more appealing and is capable of serving such multiple requirements. Alongside their security and payment instruments - a set of keys and wallet or purse - the mobile phone is one of the three items most people are likely to take out with them. Adding payment to the phone would seem a logical step.
http://www.sdnp.undp.org/perl/news/articles.pl?id=9309&do=gpage




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EDUCATION/E-LEARNING
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---- High Security for $100 Laptop
The laptop will premiere a security system that takes a radical approach to computer protection. For starters, it does away with the ubiquitous security prompts so familiar to users of Windows and antivirus software, said Ivan Krstic, a young security guru on break from Harvard who's in charge of security for the XO.
http://www.sdnp.undp.org/perl/news/articles.pl?id=9308&do=gpage




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