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| Details about the XO2 $100 Laptop |  | Details about the $100 laptop, the product that looks like a laptop but is not a fully-fledged one, has a price tag under $100, and is created by the OLPC project, have surfaced on the Internet. The new device looks like an eBook reader which also provides some of the features of a laptop. It is believed that it will be shipped to children in 2010 under the name of XO2.
One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) founder, Nicholas Negroponte, ... [read more >>] | | 22 May 2008, 06:11GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Microsoft Applauds Windows XP – Linux Marriage on the XO Laptops |  | Microsoft is not shy of going after the next 5 billion of potential Windows users in the world, with its proprietary operating system having already achieved an install base larger than 1 billion people. In this context, the Redmond company will get a piggyback ride from One Laptop per Child (OLPC) via the XO laptop, a machine originally planned to run Linux exclusively. As of May 15, Microsoft and OLPC have inked an official agreement des ... [read more >>] | | 16 May 2008, 05:27GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| OLPC Australia Refuses the Windows XP Treat |  | The Australian OLPC office has no plan of joining mother company's intentions of switching to Windows XP. According to a news report published by tech website ITWire, two of the five OLPC Australia executives are active members in the local Linux community.
Both board director Jeff Waugh and his partner Pia Waugh played ... [read more >>] | | 09 May 2008, 06:32GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| OLPC Calms Down the Open-Source Developer Community |  | The One Laptop Per Child charity organization led by Nicholas Negroponte seemed to have terminated its business with Linux in favor of Microsoft's Windows XP operating system. The move raised waves of protests among open source developers, and the very purp ... [read more >>] | | 07 May 2008, 06:31GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| OLPC, Back in Business with New Executive Team |  | Nicholas Negroponte's One Laptop Per Child charity project has just got a new president and chief operating officer. The move is part of the restructuring and reshaping policy announced in mid-March, a policy that forced many of the executives involved in the project to pack their bags to brighter ideals.
According to the company, the new executive is Charles Kane, former CFO at the OLPC. Negroponte will remain the Chairm ... [read more >>] | | 05 May 2008, 06:30GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| OLPC's Chairman Denies Ditching Sugar for Windows XP |  | Nicholas Negroponte's One Laptop Per Child charity organization is strolling towards replacing its currently existing Linux-based Sugar operating system with Microsoft's Windows XP. Negroponte's concern towards Microsoft has triggered a wave of complaints from the company's employees that topped with ... [read more >>] | | 24 April 2008, 06:56GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| OLPC Runs Out of Executives: Walter Bender Resigns |  | Nicholas Negroponte's One Laptop Per Child charity foundation lost another executive on their way to delivering inexpensive and user-friendly educational notebooks. Walter Bender, the former President of Software and Content, has just resigned.
The official explanation for Bender's departure is that there have been some drastic internal migrations from a department to another. "OLPC recently restructured into fo ... [read more >>] | | 22 April 2008, 05:39GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| OLPC's XO Sub-Notebooks Face Keyboard Issues |  | Nicholas Negroponte's educational project is reportedly facing another bump in the road to delivering its tiny, green toy-like notebook. According to a forum post on the project's support board, some of the already released units are experiencing stuck key issues that render notebooks useless.
Some of the keycaps get stuck in the "activated" position either after they have been directly pressed, or by conta ... [read more >>] | | 21 April 2008, 04:33GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Intel Unveils New Line of Low-Cost Notebooks |  | Intel has once again picked up the hatchet against its small-scale rival One Laptop Per Child charity foundation by releasing into the wild a refurbished version of the Classmate PC. The update adds bigger screens and larger storage capacity to the company's educational notebook.
The new Classmate PC will hit the international markets in April for between $300 and $500. Available in both 7-inch and 9-inch LCD screen flavo ... [read more >>] | | 03 April 2008, 16:51GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Peru Teachers Get OLPC Computer Training |  | The One Laptop Per Child charity foundation is heading towards the Peru villages this week in order to offer notebook training for the teachers from remote rural villages. The organization will set up training centers in a few regional cities, where teachers will meet the green, rugged XO notebooks.
Teachers will be the first to receive technical information and training regarding the inexpensive ultra-mobile computers as par ... [read more >>] | | 28 March 2008, 20:46GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| OLPC's Head of Security Architecture Leaves the Charity Boat |  | Nicholas Negroponte's One Laptop Per Child foundation has just lost Ivan Krstic, its head of security. The former Director of Security Architecture resigned on grounds of some ethical differences with the organization's board of executives.
Earlier this month, the OLPC company ... [read more >>] | | 22 March 2008, 05:30GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| OLPC Shifts to Business-Like Approach, Looks for New CEO |  | Initially started as an academic project, professor Negroponte's One Laptop Per Child initiative is currently re-building itself as a commercial enterprise. The project aims at delivering $100 laptop computers to be deployed in the developing countries schools in order to fight against the digital divide – a term that defines the discrepancy between the high-tech world and the third-world countries left out of the digital re ... [read more >>] | | 11 March 2008, 04:39GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Ex-OLPC's Jepsen to Foresee $75 Laptops Until 2010 |  | The former ex-CTO of the One Laptop Per Child organization, Mary-Lou Jepsen, has left in order to start her own profit-company, Pixel Qi, in an attempt to create a $75 sub-notebook with the technologies she invented during her stay at OLPC.
Jepsen claims that Pixel Qi still keeps some of the OLPC's philosophy and develops cheap products such as power-efficient LCD displays, but most important, the company pursues the $75 ... [read more >>] | | 16 February 2008, 06:30GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| The OLPC Donors Get Angry With Their Missing Laptops |  | Although the "Give One, Get One" program has been launched back in November last year, many of the donors are reporting that there are serious shipping issues. The "Give One, Get One" program entitled donors to obtain a XO sub-notebook for $399 (the cost of two sub-notebooks).
The program had some issues since it first began. There was the busy shopping system that prevented the XO from entering mass produ ... [read more >>] | | 25 January 2008, 11:35GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Intel's Classmate Hammers Another Nail Into OLPC's Coffin |  | Intel and Negroponte's One Laptop Per Child foundation have been allies, but never managed to become friends. This is quite understandable, since both products are struggling for supremacy on the educational market. Moreover, OLPC's decision of using AMD Geode processors for its XO sub-notebook enlarged the gap between OLPC and Intel.
Intel seems to be willing to leave the educational market with its Classmate PC. In ... [read more >>] | | 21 January 2008, 02:52GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| One Laptop Per Child to Arrive on the US Market |  | The One Laptop Per Child project is scheduled to arrive to America during 2008. The low-performance, low-cost XO notebooks will be distributed to some of the United States school students. The OLPC initiative originates in the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), and it was permanently criticized to have forgotten the needs of the United States students.
Nicholas Negroponte's charity foundation aims at delivering ... [read more >>] | | 14 January 2008, 02:47GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Ex-OLPC CTO Starts Foundation, Plans $75 Notebooks |  | One Laptop Per Child Chief Technical Officer Mary-Lou Jepsen announced back in December that she will no longer work together with Nicholas Negroponte's foundation as of 2008. Instead, she opened her own business, called Pixel Qi that seems to be a true rival for the OLPC foundation.
Mary-Low Jepsen was one of the persons who have been actively involved with designing and building the XO notebooks, priced at that time aro ... [read more >>] | | 11 January 2008, 05:39GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Intel and OLPC: The Hardware Soap Opera |  | The OLPC initiative seems to be in the spotlight lately, following the organization's conflict with chip manufacturer Intel. A few days after Intel waved goodbye at the ex-partner OLPC, the foundation's founder Nicholas Negroponte changed his mind and reached out to Intel, in what seems to be a true hardware soap-opera drama. Of course, just like any divorce being canceled, it's 'for children's sake' ... [read more >>] | | 10 January 2008, 10:55GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Microsoft Doesn't Want Linux Booting Alongside Windows |  | Microsoft is showing Linux little love, as it doesn't want it booting alongside Windows on XO laptops. The fact of the matter is that the Redmond company did indeed jump aboard the One Laptop Per Child initiative. No less true is that Microsoft is currently pouring a consistent amount of effort into making Windows XP ... [read more >>] | | 10 January 2008, 08:42GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| OLPC to Work on a Dual-Boot Version of XO |  | One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) has started its collaboration with Microsoft in order to develop a dual-boot mechanism that will allow its XO sub-notebooks to run both Linux and Windows operating systems. Nicholas Negroponte agreed upon implementing Microsoft's software onto the OLPC notebooks as the software giant reconsidered its attitude towards the open-source software.
"We are working with them very closely to make ... [read more >>] | | 10 January 2008, 04:17GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Intel to Introduce the Silverthorne Processor to the Classmate PC |  | A week after having parted ways with Nicholas Negroponte's OLPC, Intel announced an updated version of their Classmate sub-notebook, targeted at the third-world school children.
The refurbished Classmate PC will be based on the upcoming Silverthorne processo ... [read more >>] | | 09 January 2008, 08:28GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| CES 2008: The Orphaned OLPC Gets Help From AMD |  | Advanced Micro Devices has given a helping hand to Nicholas Negroponte's OLPC initiative during the second day of Consumer Electronics Show. It seems that the One Laptop Per Child initiative had a difficult start this year, after its CTO, Mary Louis Jepsen left for her own business. As if this was not enough, Intel announced that ... [read more >>] | | 08 January 2008, 11:04GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| OLPC's 'Give One, Get One' Program Might Arrive In Europe |  | Nicholas Negroponte's One Laptop per Child initiative might arrive in Europe after a year that can be hardly considered as good. The organization not only had to face a ruthless lawsuit with Nigerian LANCOR company in a dispute over a proprietary keyboard layout, but it also had to ... [read more >>] | | 07 January 2008, 06:10GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Intel to Quit the OLPC Charity Initiative |  | Intel has just put an end to its relationship with the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) initiative, Nicholas Negroponte's charity action to manufacture and deliver low-cost notebooks to students in developing countries. This marks the end of a very tensioned relationship between the participants.
The partnership between Intel and the OLPC Foundation could not have lasted longer, as the sub-notebooks used chips manufactured by ... [read more >>] | | 04 January 2008, 03:35GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Nigerian LANCOR to Keep the XO Notebooks Off-Shelves |  | The Nigerian Lagos Analysis Corporation (LANCOR) continues the patent infringement actions against Nicholas Negroponte's One Laptop Per Child initiative. The company has managed to obtain a temporary injunction against the distribution of the OLPC XO laptop in Nigeria and will continue to demand a permanent restriction with substantial money damages.
The object of the court dispute is based on the RD8489 patent, registe ... [read more >>] | | 03 January 2008, 03:43GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Hacao Classmate PC Goes to Vietnam |  | Vietnamese computer stores have started selling a new low-cost laptop for school children, based on Intel's Classmate PC design. The sub-notebook is called Hacao Classmate PC and comes with Hacao Linux 2.16 Professional, a localized version of Puppy Linux.
The Hacao Classmate PC is a derivative of Intel's Classmate sub-notebook. The latter has been widely accused of competing with Nicholas Negroponte's OLPC ini ... [read more >>] | | 28 December 2007, 09:28GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| “Our Stories”, a Google, UNICEF and OLPC Initiative |  | It’s an attempt to keep the things that define a nation alive and to spread them all throughout the land, to get them to have the maximum of reach via the Internet, and it comes in the footsteps of a similar initiative that The Discovery Channel had a couple of years ago that saw clips being shot about languages that were about to go extinct.
By using laptops, mobile phones and other recording devices, children will record the ... [read more >>] | | 07 December 2007, 10:55GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Typhoon Touch Technologies to File Lawsuit Against Dell |  | Recent news on the IT market lets me draw but a conclusion: if you can't sell more than they do, then sue them. It was a hard week, with companies moving their wars from the market directly into the courtroom: it was the Nigerian LANCOR to sue OLPC over their laptop, then it was IBM to sue Asustek for multiple patent infringement, then it's Typhoon Touch to smash Dell's head against the wall.
Typhoon Touch Tech ... [read more >>] | | 07 December 2007, 10:09GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| XP Will Fit XO |  | Microsoft is feverishly hammering away at Windows XP, in order to get it to fit XO. In this context, the Redmond company has managed to reinstate its support for low cost flash based computing devices, namely the machine under the One Laptop per Child umbrella. Come mid 2008, Microsoft plans to have a production quality release of Windows XP, designed to seamlessly integrate with the OLPC XO computer, in addition to Intel’s Classmate PC an ... [read more >>] | | 06 December 2007, 10:44GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Microsoft to Lay Their Hands on the XOs |  | OLPC's relative success pushed Microsoft forward with a "business proposition", as the company executives sensed that there's some dough in for them. After having consciously sabotaged the project by selling discounted versions of their software ... [read more >>] | | 06 December 2007, 05:07GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Birmingham City Schools Get 15,000 XO Laptops |  | After an extended voyage in the undeveloped countries, Negroponte's XO laptop has arrived to the United States schools. It may seem odd for a $200 laptop to emerge into schools where children are already familiar with computers, and you would rather consider the Eee PC solution than the rudimentary sub-notebook.
Well, Birmingham schools will be United States' first to benefit from the XO machines, thanks to an agree ... [read more >>] | | 05 December 2007, 10:26GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Microsoft and Intel Join Asus for Eee Sequel |  | The Eee PC can undoubtedly be regarded as a success story. It would not be too hard to imagine that money attracts "investors"; it was Microsoft and Intel to pay a visit to Asus. There have been numerous reports of existing Eee PCs to unofficially support Windows XP and even Leopard installations, and Microsoft is ready to officialy throw good-old Windows XP in the Eee world.
According to some Asustek employees that ... [read more >>] | | 05 December 2007, 04:37GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| The Nigerian Issue: OLPC and the Ex-Convict |  | Professor Negroponte's initiative of bringing IT into the undeveloped countries has partially failed in Nigeria. We have talked about corporate giants launching poisoned darts at Negroponte's One Laptop Per Child project and how they perceive a humanitarian action. Apart from ... [read more >>] | | 03 December 2007, 08:26GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| OLPC Mission Takes Off to Peru |  | Shortly after the OLPC patent infringement scandal, the Peruvian government ordered 260,000 XO laptops to be introduced in the educational system. Things have moved fast for the Peruvian government, as they have posted their request just a month after the One Laptop Per Child ... [read more >>] | | 03 December 2007, 04:16GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| OLPC, Sabotaged Again in Nigeria |  | LANCOR, a Nigerian division of Lagos Analysis Corporation, filled a patent infringement lawsuit against Nicholas Negroponte's initiative, One Laptop per Child (OLPC). Filled on November 22nd, the lawsuit addresses a willful infringement of LANCOR's Nigeria Registered Design Patent #RD8489, as well as "illegal reverse engineering of its keyboard driver source codes for use in the XO Laptops".
LANCOR is a te ... [read more >>] | | 28 November 2007, 04:22GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| One Laptop Per Child, Sabotaged by Microsoft and Intel |  | The non-profit One Laptop per Child (OLPC) project has started as a personal initiative of Professor Nicholas Negroponte and his team. The finality was to deliver affordable technology to the third world countries and, thus, to bridge the technology division between wealthy nations and the undeveloped countries. The plan was to devise a laptop cheap enough to be made available through charity. Negroponte's organization has s ... [read more >>] | | 26 November 2007, 10:39GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| One Laptop Per Child Extends the Give One Get One Program |  | The One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) organization is a non profit agency that designs, manufactures and distributes laptop computers that would qualify for $100.
OLPC's Give One Get One program, initially limited to two weeks has been announced to continue until the end of this year in USA and Canada only. The Give One Get One program has been first launched on November 12 for individuals in the USA and Canada to support the O ... [read more >>] | | 22 November 2007, 11:23GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| The OLPC's XO Laptop Starts Mass Production |  | The One Laptop per Child project is quite a commendable initiative, but, unfortunately, it has not enjoyed exactly the level of success it probably deserved. However, after many years of waiting, price increases and rumors, it seems that the XO laptop dreamed by Nicholas Negroponte has finally entered the manufacturing stage.
Thus, according to a report by ... [read more >>] | | 08 November 2007, 10:46GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Masi Oka, Hiro Nakamura from "Heroes", Becomes OLPC Ambassador |  | Nicolas Negroponte's OLPC initiative has encountered some pretty big problems lately, due to the fact the proposed $100 price tag will most likely turn into a $200, not to mention the fact that Intel's Classmate PC seems to be a lot more popular in the developing countries than its OLCP counterpart. And in order to perhaps pull out the whole initiative from this dire situation, Negroponte's side has been nominated as (and a ... [read more >>] | | 02 November 2007, 14:06GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Mongolia Starts The OLPC Program |  | 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 Child) and Mongolia's Minister for Fore ... [read more >>] | | 26 October 2007, 09:32GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Intel to Develop a New CPU Architecture |  | Ultra low cost mobile computing systems are now very much advertised thanks to a number of competing projects like the OLPC, Asus Eee PC and the Intel Classmate PC that are all aimed at the low cost computer market while providing a minimum of processing power and a basic computing functionality that cannot rival with more expensive and better equipped solutions.
The OLPC project announced some time ago its first mass producti ... [read more >>] | | 16 October 2007, 06:32GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| The XO Laptop Goes to Uruguay |  | 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 repo ... [read more >>] | | 08 October 2007, 04:45GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Intel Gets The Boot: XO Beats The Classmate PC |  | 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.
Their program to allow customers from the United States and Europe to buy OLPC XO laptops at a double price in or ... [read more >>] | | 06 October 2007, 08:05GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| OLPC's XO Laptops to Cost $188 |  | 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 getting dimmer again as a spokesman from the foundation said that the XO machines are getting into mass production with a price t ... [read more >>] | | 17 September 2007, 05:06GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| OLPC Laptops with "Intel Inside" Logos? |  | 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 they are mostly built by the Taiwanese contract manufacturing company Quanta. The XOs are built around an Advanced Micro Devic ... [read more >>] | | 10 September 2007, 04:38GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| OLPC Not Running Low on Parts |  | The One Laptop Per Child foundation is preparing for the fast coming massive computer shipments that will begin in October and as the entire laptop and notebook manufacturing industry is plagued by critical component shortages, some reports and analysts are less than optimistic about OLPC's ability to respect its deadlines.
But according to the news site ... [read more >>] | | 03 September 2007, 04:01GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| After OLPC, Asus Comes |  | It looks as if the OLPC, One Laptop Per Child, did change the world but not in the way Nicholas Negroponte might have hoped as more and more computer manufacturing companies that are active on the laptop market are now focusing on low cost computing solutions that are becoming increasingly popular with users that do not to invest too heavily into a laptop or notebook.
Asustek Computer, a Taiwanese computer hardware manufacture ... [read more >>] | | 30 August 2007, 04:29GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| One Intel Per Child? |  | 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 architecture for the second generation of XO machines. And guess what, the said architecture is based on an Intel proce ... [read more >>] | | 13 August 2007, 08:31GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Intel's Cheapest Laptop |  | The OLPC laptop project is finally entering mass production and it may very well mark the start of a new trend in the computer industry, as consumers will find out that they can do their normal day activities (sooo sorry, not gaming allowed) using a hardware platform that costs only a tiny fraction of the most advanced systems on the market today. Intel – following the OLPC's example – designed and manufactured a low cost laptop that ... [read more >>] | | 09 August 2007, 05:51GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
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