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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
09:44 GMT |
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OLPC is a project that is focused on providing the world with a low-power, low-cost portable computer system that can be used for educational purposes. The XO laptop is the project's first attempt in its efforts to develop a computing solution that can be used for learning and enhancing the educational experienc... |
22 April 2009
10:57 GMT |
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The One Laptop Per Child organization, which has spawned the low-cost portable computer system known as the OLPC, is said to be considering the adoption of ARM's microprocessor architecture, consequently replacing the x86 one, currently used in the OLPC laptop. ARM-based processors could power the upcoming XO-2 ... |
13 March 2009
05:03 GMT |
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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
05:03 GMT |
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The One Laptop per Child (OLPC) project appears to have taken advertising to a whole new level, as the non-profit organization is trying to promote its XO laptop around the world. Following a series of new advertising spots, a rather strange, but also interesting commercial started airing on Christmas Day on national... |
29 December 2008
03:39 GMT |
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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
04:40 GMT |
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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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NComputing managed to gain some sort of competition against former partners turned rivals Intel and One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) on delivering affordable computing to 1.8 million schoolchildren in India. The virtualization vendor came with lower-cost products, only $70 per seat, and won the deal with the Indian govern... |
15 October 2008
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Intel's Classmate PC appears to gain more popularity, as the government of Venezuela has recently announced that it plans to order more than one million of these low-cost portable computer systems, as part of a broader economic agreement between Venezuela and Portugal. According to said agreement, Portugal will ... |
30 September 2008
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On Monday, Microsoft and the One Laptop Per Child project announced that the first country that would try the XO laptops featuring the Microsoft Windows XP Operating System is Peru. The software giant and OLPC brought the new laptops to Peru as a part of a nine-month pilot program. The two companies announced that th... |
17 September 2008
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In a market where the popularity of netbooks is increasing with each day, the One Laptop Per Child program seems to have lost some of the media attention it was initially showered with. Earlier this year, in May, the OLPC project announced a second-generation portable system that would benefit from a dual-touchscreen... |
4 September 2008
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Intel managed to ink a large low-cost laptop deal with Portugal's government to deliver 500,000 units of the company's Classmate PC for primary school pupils. The notebooks will be manufactured in northern Portugal and Intel expects them to be shipped during the upcoming school year. The delivery of the hal... |
31 July 2008
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According to recent rumors on the PC area, Intel is on its way to serve us yet another generation of its already famous Classmate PC. It seems that the company is readying the third iteration of the netbook, one that will probably line-up with famous machines of the industry like the Eee PC or the Wind netbook. The o... |
31 July 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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Details about the $100 laptop, the product that looks like a laptop but is not a fully-fledged one, has a price tag under $100, and is created by the OLPC project, have surfaced on the Internet. The new device looks like an eBook reader which also provides some of the features of a laptop. It is believed that it will... |
22 May 2008
06:11 GMT |
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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
05:27 GMT |
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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
06:32 GMT |
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The One Laptop Per Child charity organization led by Nicholas Negroponte seemed to have terminated its business with Linux in favor of Microsoft's Windows XP operating system. The move raised waves of protests among open source developers, and the very purpose of the organization was questioned. The large number... |
7 May 2008
06:31 GMT |
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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
04:33 GMT |
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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
16:51 GMT |
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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
20:46 GMT |
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Nicholas Negroponte's One Laptop Per Child foundation has just lost Ivan Krstic, its head of security. The former Director of Security Architecture resigned on grounds of some ethical differences with the organization's board of executives.Earlier this month, the OLPC company planned a restructuring process... |
22 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
02:52 GMT |
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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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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 th... |
11 January 2008
05:39 GMT |
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The OLPC initiative seems to be in the spotlight lately, following the organization's conflict with chip manufacturer Intel. A few days after Intel waved goodbye at the ex-partner OLPC, the foundation's founder Nicholas Negroponte changed his mind and reached out to Intel, in what seems to be a true hardwar... |
10 January 2008
10:55 GMT |
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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
08:42 GMT |
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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
04:17 GMT |
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A week after having parted ways with Nicholas Negroponte's OLPC, Intel announced an updated version of their Classmate sub-notebook, targeted at the third-world school children. The refurbished Classmate PC will be based on the upcoming Silverthorne processor aimed at ultramobile PCs and mobile Internet devices.... |
9 January 2008
08:28 GMT |
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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
11:04 GMT |
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Nicholas Negroponte's One Laptop per Child initiative might arrive in Europe after a year that can be hardly considered as good. The organization not only had to face a ruthless lawsuit with Nigerian LANCOR company in a dispute over a proprietary keyboard layout, but it also had to part ways with both Intel and... |
7 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
03:43 GMT |
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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
09:28 GMT |
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It's an attempt to keep the things that define a nation alive and to spread them all throughout the land, to get them to have the maximum of reach via the Internet, and it comes in the footsteps of a similar initiative that The Discovery Channel had a couple of years ago that saw clips being shot about languages... |
7 December 2007
10:55 GMT |
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Recent news on the IT market lets me draw but a conclusion: if you can't sell more than they do, then sue them. It was a hard week, with companies moving their wars from the market directly into the courtroom: it was the Nigerian LANCOR to sue OLPC over their laptop, then it was IBM to sue Asustek for multiple p... |
7 December 2007
10:09 GMT |
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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
10:44 GMT |
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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
05:07 GMT |
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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
10:26 GMT |
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The Eee PC can undoubtedly be regarded as a success story. It would not be too hard to imagine that money attracts "investors"; it was Microsoft and Intel to pay a visit to Asus. There have been numerous reports of existing Eee PCs to unofficially support Windows XP and even Leopard installations, and Microsoft is re... |
5 December 2007
04:37 GMT |
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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
08:26 GMT |
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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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