The OLPC (One Laptop Per Child) announced that it will begin mass production of its XO laptops and shortly afterwards shippings will start. Hardware producers received the green light to speed up the manufacture of all computer parts needed to make the millions of the desired low cost machines. As the OLPC organizati...
For those of you who didn't hear about it, the OLPC (One Laptop Per Child) is an interesting campaign started some time ago that is meant to bring a laptop to every child from every corner of the world. Of course, the entire campaign is made with educational purposes so the operating system installed on the lap...
Everybody must have heard of the "$100 laptop" by now, as it made quite a spectacular splash both on the market and inside several computer manufacturers circles. Treated by some as a very good idea and by others as a mere gadget (Intel's chairman called it the "$100 gadget"), it seems that the tiny laptop is he...
After down playing Nicholas Negroponte's OLPC, One Laptop Per Child, program and calling the XO machine "the $100 gadget", Intel reviewed its actions and decided to take part in the program. As most people suspect already, this was not really a selfless decision: Intel pressures the OLPC to adopt a new core arch...
The One Laptop Per Child (OLPC for short) program aims at providing low cost mobile computer systems for children across the developing nations as a means of accelerating and improving education systems. The first XO machines, which are the mini laptops designed by the OLPC foundation, are already being shipped and t...
The One Laptop Per Child (OLPC for short) is a program planned to design, produce and ship a very cheap laptop to developing countries in an attempt to boost the educational level. After almost two years from the official announcement of this program, the ''$100 laptop'' as it became known is gett...
The $100 laptop will be available for purchasing to the general public from the US, but under the G1G1 scheme ("Give one, Get One"). This will allow US residents to buy two laptops for $399. One laptop will be sent to the buyer and the other will be received by a child from the developing world. The G1G1 scheme will ...
The One Laptop Per Child, OLPC for short, has been mulling over its super cheap, uber cool laptop for a number of years now and after a number of setbacks and near total failures alongside with many price tag boosts and other problems, things are finally looking brighter for the outfit led by Nicholas Negromponte.Th...
The XO laptop won a bid for 100,000 laptops for the schools in Uruguay. The laptops will be given through the Ceibal project, started by the Uruguayan government.LATU (Laboratorio Tecnologico del Uruguay - The Technological Laboratory of Uruguay) received the report from the committee adjudicating the bid and the sco...
Mongolia's President, Nambaryn Enkhbayar, announced today his commitment to provide every child in his nation with a laptop connected to the internet by the end of 2010.As a first step towards this accomplishment, Nicholas Negroponte, the founding chairman of the non-profit organization, OLPC (One Laptop Per Chi...
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