Earlier this year, the Indian government finally took the wraps off a project that was to provide the Indian education system with a computer specifically designed for educational purposes. One of the most impressive facts about the system was that it would provide the required computing experience at a price of just... |
29 April 2009
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It appears that the very first photo of the next-generation OLPC XO 2.0 low-cost laptop has finally emerged on the Internet, showing us some of the things we should be expecting. In addition to that, it looks like Nicholas Negroponte, the founder of the One Laptop Per Child project, has confirmed that the next-genera... |
29 January 2009
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Amazon will be selling the OLPC XO laptop in 30 countries starting on Monday, according to the latest news reports. This would be the first time when the laptop is made available to the general public from areas other than U.S. and Canada. As previously reported, the laptop will also be relaunched on Amazon for the U... |
15 November 2008
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The One Laptop Per Child’s (OLPC) XO mobile PC will begin to be sold on Amazon starting November 17th. According to Amazon, the XO laptop will be available in the same manner as its previous Give One, Get One (G1G1) program, which will allow customers to spend $400 for two laptops, one of which g... |
12 November 2008
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The OLPC (One Laptop Per Child) developers announced today a new release of their XO Software, a Fedora-based Linux distribution designed for the XO laptop. The new version is based on the popular Sugar graphical interface, Fedora 9 operating system, and includes some core software customizations for wireless drivers... |
16 October 2008
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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
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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,... |
16 May 2008
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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 ... |
10 January 2008
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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 charity went into mass production. In Nov... |
3 December 2007
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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 manufactur... |
8 November 2007
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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... |
8 October 2007
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After One Laptop Per Child project's XO Laptop, another low-cost Linux-based laptop raises its price. Eee PC ("Easy to learn, work, play, Excellent Internet experience and Excellent mobile computing experience") from Asus was initially expected to have a starting price of $199, and now it seem this machine will ... |
3 October 2007
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Almost 92% of the Quanta Computer-made OLPC notebook's (XO) components are provided by Taiwan, states Mary Lou Jepsen, founding chief technology officer for OLPC (One Laptop Per Child). According to Jepsen, the number of XO computers scheduled for the second half of 2007 could reach almost 1 million units.The XO... |
18 May 2007
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