| 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 |
| 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 |