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Computer access for the poorest, at $7 a head

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The Times of Israel; By David Shamah 		Mail this story
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Israeli start-up Keepod believes it has a low-cost way to bring the billions living in poverty into the digital age. Keepod has developed a Linux-based operating system that can act as a portable hard drive by plugging it into the USB port of any recent PC...

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Comments (3)

Francy ·
I wish them success.

But they are wrong about the USB cards

They " will " get stolen , unfortunately !
Bob_Robertson ·
A perfect situation for full disk encryption.
Francy ·
True ! I never thought of it !

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