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Harnessing generative AI for good

Candid

The unfulfilled promises of blockchain to advance social good, a proliferation of mobile apps in developing countries that failed to garner adoption , and cheap laptops that were going to change the world are just a few examples. 2) Fast follow The Gartner Hype Cycle captures the euphoria new technologies tend to generate in the early days.

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Does the Used IT Market Have a Future?

Tech Soup

During the intervening two years, we have entered the “post-PC” era in which laptop and desktop computers are being superseded by tablets, phones and other mobile devices. And indeed sales of new PCs and laptops are declining. This is an update of a TechSoup article we posted online in November 2011.

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Is the Used Computer Market Going Away?

Tech Soup

By "post-PC," Jobs meant essentially that computing and Internet use for both work and pleasure will no longer be dominated by PCs, but that there will be an array of smart devices including smartphones, tablet computers, smart TVs, laptops, and even sensing devices in our clothes and cars and other every day items.

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How to Stop Worrying and Embrace the Nonprofit BYOD Workplace

Tech Soup

In a perfect world, your nonprofit would have the resources to equip every worker and volunteer with a secure laptop. In May, Gartner predicted that by 2017, half of employers will stop giving employees company devices altogether. That’s not a bad thing. The trend has a name: BYOD, or Bring Your Own Device.

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What is Green IT?

Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

For a couple of years now we've been seeing talk of Green IT, and as early as 2007 management consulting giants Gartner and McKinsey were addressing Green issues as a major issue facing IT managers.

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IT Budget Cuts: How to Do it Right

NTEN

That was the theme of a webinar I attended with the folks from Gartner called "Emergency IT Cost Cutting." Get another year out of laptops/software, etc. Tags: budget gartner itstaff NPTech NTEN. " What DO you do when your boss walks in and asks you to shave 25% from your budget? . IT is not a cost center.

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Nonprofit Technology News for May 2013: Free WiFi in Forbes Magazine and Braille Phones

Tech Soup

Gartner just came out with a pretty set of interesting predictions on the hardware market through 2017. They will be powered by the same operating systems used on desktops and laptop PCs – mostly Windows and Mac OS. The phone is a project of Sumit Dagar and the Indian Institute of Technology.

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