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Having had a glimpse at Yves Behar's concept / mockup of the new top-to-bottom XO laptop, we couldn't help but wonder: could it just be that Apple is planning on introducing something like this in the nearby future? Could it just be that Apple's next announcement is something close to this?It may very ... |
29 September 2008
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Microsoft has released to manufacturing a new version of Windows XP designed to do nothing more than go well beyond the reach of its latest Windows client. This despite having spared nothing to push Windows Vista Service Pack 1 to the foreground, not even the availability of Windows XP SP3 through the retail and OEM ... |
28 July 2008
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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 Windo... |
10 January 2008
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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 qual... |
6 December 2007
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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 in the OLPC markets, Microsoft wants to take down two birds wi... |
6 December 2007
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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.... |
5 December 2007
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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 Microsoft and Intel's defe... |
3 December 2007
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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 ... |
26 November 2007
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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 ... |
2 November 2007
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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 wit... |
16 October 2007
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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... |
6 October 2007
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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... |
17 September 2007
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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... |
10 September 2007
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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 it... |
3 September 2007
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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... |
13 August 2007
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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... |
25 July 2007
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The One Laptop Per Child project is finally hitting mass production with its XO laptop that is both a remarkable piece of engineering and a milestone in the foundation road towards global spread. There are some innovative features inside the XO that make it unique and give it all the qualities needed in a laptop desi... |
24 July 2007
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