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Walter Bender, the former One Laptop Per Child president of software and content, formed the Sugar Labs organization in order to provide a better development of the Sugar user interface (UI) for Linux OS, used by the OLPC charity foundation to offer educational tools for children. The Sugar UI has originally been dev... |
17 May 2008
06:54 GMT |
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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... |
26 October 2007
09:32 GMT |
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The Ohio LinuxFest was a great event that took place two days ago in Columbus, Ohio, the largest conference and expo for Free and Open Source software professionals and enthusiasts in the area. Its sponsors were reputed companies in the Linux world, like Silicon Mechanics, Google, IBM, N2Net, ZenOSS, etc.OHL started ... |
1 October 2007
08:41 GMT |
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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 ... |
25 September 2007
03:44 GMT |
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FYRoM's minister of technology signed a contract with a Silicon Valley start-up, NComputing Inc. This contract was made for equipping the schools in FYROM with new computers. The whole deal is worth $61 million. FYRoM stands for Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia.NComputing's technology enables organiza... |
20 September 2007
04:15 GMT |
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After the moment when Bill Gates almost had a heart attack when he heard the plan to develop a $100 laptop, everybody started to get involved in a project such as this, everybody except Mr. Gates. The reason behind this is that Microsoft was almost ready to bring out Windows Vista, and Bill knew that if the OLPC proj... |
18 April 2007
10:07 GMT |
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The OLPC (One Laptop Per Child) is a unique machine (portable personal computer) created by specialists, specifically for the world's poorest children.It features a 7.5-inch TFT screen that supports a maximum resolution of 1200x900 pixels and with a self-refreshing display. Also, the OLPC consumes very little p... |
17 April 2007
13:51 GMT |
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