Comment Negroponte announces that it will be $75. (Score 1) 286
So in the three years it takes to develop, the price will slowly rise to $300.
And it will, of course, run Windows Vista.
New Plan In UK For "Big Brother" Database 178
POPE Mad Mitch writes "The BBC is reporting that Tony Blair is going to unveil plans on Monday to build a single database to pull together and share every piece of personal data from all government departments. The claimed justification is to improve public services. The opposition party and the Information Commission have both condemned the plan as another step towards a 'Big Brother' society. Sharing information in this way is currently prohibited by the 'over-zealous' data protection legislation. An attempt to build a similar database was a key part of the, now severely delayed, ID card scheme."
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