The Australian OLPC office has no plan of joining mother company's intentions of switching to Windows XP. According to a news report published by tech website ITWire, two of the five OLPC Australia executives are active members in the local Linux community. Both board director Jeff Waugh and his partner Pia Wau... |
9 May 2008
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Nicholas Negroponte's One Laptop Per Child charity project has just got a new president and chief operating officer. The move is part of the restructuring and reshaping policy announced in mid-March, a policy that forced many of the executives involved in the project to pack their bags to brighter ideals.Accordi... |
5 May 2008
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Nicholas Negroponte's One Laptop Per Child charity organization is strolling towards replacing its currently existing Linux-based Sugar operating system with Microsoft's Windows XP. Negroponte's concern towards Microsoft has triggered a wave of complaints from the company's employees that topped w... |
24 April 2008
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Nicholas Negroponte's One Laptop Per Child charity foundation lost another executive on their way to delivering inexpensive and user-friendly educational notebooks. Walter Bender, the former President of Software and Content, has just resigned.The official explanation for Bender's departure is that there ha... |
22 April 2008
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Nicholas Negroponte's educational project is reportedly facing another bump in the road to delivering its tiny, green toy-like notebook. According to a forum post on the project's support board, some of the already released units are experiencing stuck key issues that render notebooks useless.Some of the ke... |
21 April 2008
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Intel has once again picked up the hatchet against its small-scale rival One Laptop Per Child charity foundation by releasing into the wild a refurbished version of the Classmate PC. The update adds bigger screens and larger storage capacity to the company's educational notebook.The new Classmate PC will hit the... |
3 April 2008
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The One Laptop Per Child charity foundation is heading towards the Peru villages this week in order to offer notebook training for the teachers from remote rural villages. The organization will set up training centers in a few regional cities, where teachers will meet the green, rugged XO notebooks. Teachers will be ... |
28 March 2008
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Initially started as an academic project, professor Negroponte's One Laptop Per Child initiative is currently re-building itself as a commercial enterprise. The project aims at delivering $100 laptop computers to be deployed in the developing countries schools in order to fight against the digital divide - a ter... |
11 March 2008
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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... |
16 February 2008
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Although the "Give One, Get One" program has been launched back in November last year, many of the donors are reporting that there are serious shipping issues. The "Give One, Get One" program entitled donors to obtain a XO sub-notebook for $399 (the cost of two sub-notebooks). The program had some issues since it fir... |
25 January 2008
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The rugged XO sub-notebook may have been a real success in the developing countries, but more and more schools across America and the United Kingdom are adopting it for educational purposes. I have told you in a previous article last year about the organization's agreement to deliver 15,000 XO units to the Birmi... |
24 January 2008
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Intel and Negroponte's One Laptop Per Child foundation have been allies, but never managed to become friends. This is quite understandable, since both products are struggling for supremacy on the educational market. Moreover, OLPC's decision of using AMD Geode processors for its XO sub-notebook enlarged the... |
21 January 2008
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The One Laptop Per Child project is scheduled to arrive to America during 2008. The low-performance, low-cost XO notebooks will be distributed to some of the United States school students. The OLPC initiative originates in the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), and it was permanently criticized to have forg... |
14 January 2008
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Advanced Micro Devices has given a helping hand to Nicholas Negroponte's OLPC initiative during the second day of Consumer Electronics Show. It seems that the One Laptop Per Child initiative had a difficult start this year, after its CTO, Mary Louis Jepsen left for her own business. As if this was not enough, In... |
8 January 2008
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Intel has just put an end to its relationship with the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) initiative, Nicholas Negroponte's charity action to manufacture and deliver low-cost notebooks to students in developing countries. This marks the end of a very tensioned relationship between the participants. The partnership betw... |
4 January 2008
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The Nigerian Lagos Analysis Corporation (LANCOR) continues the patent infringement actions against Nicholas Negroponte's One Laptop Per Child initiative. The company has managed to obtain a temporary injunction against the distribution of the OLPC XO laptop in Nigeria and will continue to demand a permanent re... |
3 January 2008
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Vietnamese computer stores have started selling a new low-cost laptop for school children, based on Intel's Classmate PC design. The sub-notebook is called Hacao Classmate PC and comes with Hacao Linux 2.16 Professional, a localized version of Puppy Linux.The Hacao Classmate PC is a derivative of Intel's C... |
28 December 2007
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