Bender Launches Sugar Labs for Better Development of OLPC's Sugar UI
	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 developed for the XO laptop, and the Sugar Labs Foundation intends to extend the distribution of the interface beyond the XO lap ... [read more >>]
	17 May 2008, 06:54GMT | (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 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

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

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

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

Eee PC from ASUS Raises Its Price!
	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 startin ... [read more >>]
	03 October 2007, 03:44GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

92% of the XO Laptop to Be Made in Taiwan
	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 laptop, also known as the 100$ laptop, created by the OLPC non-profit association, is designed especially for the childr ... [read more >>]
	18 May 2007, 03:23GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia