[Marketing] [IAEP] Competitive landscape: Intel Classmate executive blog post re updated software

[Christoph Derndorfer]

David and me briefly discussed the use of iTALC on Sugar last week as I 
was interested in giving it a quick shot to see how it works. 
Unfortunately the Web site doesn't offer direct downloads for Fedora 
(though it does for Debian, Mandriva, Ubuntu, Suse and Gentoo - 
http://italc.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php?title=Download) and a quick 
search only turned up RPMs for Fedora 10.

Please also note that according to the Web site the last update happened 
in May of 2008 so it looks like the project is dormant if not dead.

One thing I was also wondering about is how well some of the 
functionalities would work on a wireless network as on first sight many 
of them look quite bandwidth intensive.

Hope that helps,
Christoph

Caroline Meeks schrieb:
> italic looks very interesting!  Can it be Sugarized?  how does it 
> relate/compare to Show'n'Tell or any other solutions we have in the 
> pipeline to this type need.
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 5:08 AM, David Van Assche <dvanassche at gmail.com 
> <mailto:dvanassche at gmail.com>> wrote:
> 
>     This actually looks like a commercial ripoff of iTalc, an opensource
>     app that does exactly what synchronous Eyes does:
>     http://italc.sourceforge.net/
> 
> 
>     On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 9:54 AM, Christoph Derndorfer
>     <e0425826 at student.tuwien.ac.at
>     <mailto:e0425826 at student.tuwien.ac.at>> wrote:
> 
>         Thanks for the link, definitely an interesting article!
> 
>         Some of the features provided by that "SMART Classroom Suite"
>         (http://www2.smarttech.com/st/en-US/Products/SynchronEyes+Classroom+Management+Software/)
>         would also be very useful additions for Sugar...
> 
>         Cheers,
>         Christoph
> 
>         Sean DALY schrieb:
>          >
>         http://blogs.intel.com/technology/2009/08/classmate_pc_as_a_one-to-one_l.php
>          >
>          > * touchscreen for kids
>          > * customized Easybits desktop ("Inspirus", removes
>         "distractions")
>          > * Anmeg Parent Carefree, "shuts down" Classmate if rules
>         transgressed
>          > * theft deterrent
>          > * system snapshot manager
>          > * ArtRage drawing tool
>          > * EverNote for note-taking
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