Ndiyo 'has a lower profile than a number of its AT&T peers and has not raised the VC millions of Virata, Level 5 Networks, Ubisense or Cambridge Broadband, for example, but looks set to make a truly global impact.'
Newnham Research, the
company which grew out of Ndiyo three years ago and makes the
technology that we've been using in most of our thin client
experiments so far, has formally changed its name to DisplayLink. We wish them all the
best for their new brand!
Widespread media interest in the so-called '$100 laptop' (OLPC) project has prompted many inquiries to Ndiyo about how the two projects are related. The answer is that while both are aimed at tackling aspects of the 'digital divide', they are based on radically different philosophies.
On January 1, Quentin
Stafford-Fraser returned to Ndiyo to become its full-time
Executive Director. A computer scientist who co-invented the webcam
and was part of the team which created Virtual Network Computing
(VNC), Quentin was the original Director of the Ndiyo Project, but
left to start Newnham Research,
the company set up to create the networking technology required to
realise the Ndiyo vision of making networked computing affordable,
supportable and environmentally sustainable.
In partnership with the GSM Association and mobile network operators in Bangladesh and South Africa, we will be trialling Ndiyo-powered Internet Access Facilities in two parts of the world which have hitherto had poor Internet connectivity.
