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<p align="center"><b><span style="font-size: 14pt;">OPLIN 4cast #55 -
May 15, 2007</span></b></p>
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<p>The <em><b>OPLIN 4cast</b></em> is a weekly compilation of
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<p class="style4">This week’s <em>4cast</em><b>:</b></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 14pt;">1.<strong> The Landline is Dead; Long
Live the Cellphone </strong></span></p>
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<p>More
and more people, especially the younger set, are ditching their
telephone landlines and relying exclusively on cellphones. Big business
is in hot pursuit of this audience, particularly when it comes to
cellphone-delivered Web services. </p>
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<ul>
<li><a
href="http://news.wired.com/dynamic/stories/C/CELL_PHONES_ONLY?SITE=WIRE&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT"
target="_blank">Trend Sees Cell Phone Only Use Growing</a> (Wired
News) </li>
<li><a
href="http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/20/technology/20mobile.html"
target="_blank">Big Money in Little Screens</a> (New York Times) </li>
<li><a
href="http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20070501-49-percent-of-movers-ditch-landline-services.html"
target="_blank">49 percent of movers ditch landline services</a> (Ars
Technica)</li>
<li><a
href="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/05/15/0021242&from=rss"
target="_blank">Landline Holders Increasingly Older, More Affluent</a>
(Slashdot) </li>
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<p><span style="font-size: 14pt;">2. <strong>It's a Smaller World,
After All </strong></span></p>
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<p>While
cellphones become more ubiquitous and feature-laden, the computer
industry is also making laptop computers smaller and more portable, by
replacing traditional, fragile hard drives with durable flash memory
(already widely used in USB memory sticks). </p>
<ul>
<li><a
href="http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/03/technology/03basics.html"
target="_blank">Small and Smaller</a> (New York Times) </li>
<li><a
href="http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20070502-study-predicts-majority-of-laptops-to-have-flash-drives-by-2009.html"
target="_blank">Study predicts majority of laptops to have Flash
drives by 2009</a> (Ars Technica)</li>
<li><a
href="http://www.infoworld.com/article/07/04/25/HNdellssd_1.html"
target="_blank">Dell brings solid state to Latitude</a> (InfoWorld)</li>
<li><a
href="http://dgmcintosh.edublogs.org/2007/04/23/rethinking-classroom-laptops/"
target="_blank">Rethinking Classroom Laptops</a> (doug's dirt) </li>
</ul>
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<p><span style="font-size: 14pt;">3. <strong>Meanwhile, Out Yonder </strong></span></p>
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<p>Wireless
broadband access is all well and good if you live in an urban area, but
what are your options if the "last mile" is actually a hundred miles?
Satellite, television, and power companies may each eventually play a
role. </p>
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<ul>
<li><a
href="http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20070509-with-liberty-and-megabit-broadband-for-all.html"
target="_blank">With liberty and 100 megabit/second broadband for all</a>
(Ars Technica)</li>
<li><a
href="http://www.cnn.com/2007/TECH/internet/05/09/rural.internet.service.ap/index.html?eref=rss_tech"
target="_blank">Satellite Internet a lifeline for rural areas</a> (CNN)</li>
<li><a href="http://www.lasarletter.net/drupal/node/393"
target="_blank">War over "white space" continues</a> (LLFCC)</li>
<li><a
href="http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,114793-page,1/article.html"
target="_blank">Broadband Over Power Lines Gets a Boost</a> (PC World)
</li>
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<p><span style="font-size: 14pt;">4.<strong> To Ubuntu or Not to
Ubuntu? </strong></span></p>
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<p>If your library is looking to save some bucks on PC operating
systems, you might be interested in installing <a
href="http://www.ubuntu.com/" target="_blank">Ubuntu</a>, the free,
Linux-based operating system that's posied for more widespread
adoption. Jessamyn West (<a href="http://www.librarian.net/"
target="_blank">librarian.net</a>) recently tried it out at her rural
library in Vermont. </p>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://www.librarian.net/stax/2042/do-you-ubuntu/"
target="_blank">do you ubuntu?</a> (librarian.net)</li>
<li><a
href="http://www.librarian.net/stax/2043/ubunutu-follow-up-explanations-and-links/"
target="_blank">ubuntu follow-up, explanations and links</a>
(librarian.net)</li>
<li><a
href="http://www.lifehacker.com/software/ubuntu/install-and-run-ubuntu-without-disturbing-windows-228956.php"
target="_blank">Install and run Ubuntu without disturbing Windows</a>
(Lifehacker)</li>
<li><a href="http://ohio.ubuntu-us.org/" target="_blank">Ubuntu
Ohio: Ohio Local Community Team</a> (Ubuntu) </li>
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Phone: (614) 728-5252
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