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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
03:35 GMT |
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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
04:16 GMT |
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LANCOR, a Nigerian division of Lagos Analysis Corporation, filled a patent infringement lawsuit against Nicholas Negroponte's initiative, One Laptop per Child (OLPC). Filled on November 22nd, the lawsuit addresses a willful infringement of LANCOR's Nigeria Registered Design Patent #RD8489, as well as "illeg... |
28 November 2007
04:22 GMT |
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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
10:39 GMT |
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The One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) organization is a non profit agency that designs, manufactures and distributes laptop computers that would qualify for $100.OLPC's Give One Get One program, initially limited to two weeks has been announced to continue until the end of this year in USA and Canada only. The Give On... |
22 November 2007
11:23 GMT |
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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
10:46 GMT |
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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
14:06 GMT |
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Mongolia's President, Nambaryn Enkhbayar, announced today his commitment to provide every child in his nation with a laptop connected to the internet by the end of 2010.As a first step towards this accomplishment, Nicholas Negroponte, the founding chairman of the non-profit organization, OLPC (One Laptop Per Chi... |
26 October 2007
09:32 GMT |
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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
06:32 GMT |
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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
04:45 GMT |
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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
08:05 GMT |
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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
05:06 GMT |
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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
04:38 GMT |
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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
04:01 GMT |
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It looks as if the OLPC, One Laptop Per Child, did change the world but not in the way Nicholas Negroponte might have hoped as more and more computer manufacturing companies that are active on the laptop market are now focusing on low cost computing solutions that are becoming increasingly popular with users that do ... |
30 August 2007
04:29 GMT |
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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
08:31 GMT |
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The OLPC laptop project is finally entering mass production and it may very well mark the start of a new trend in the computer industry, as consumers will find out that they can do their normal day activities (sooo sorry, not gaming allowed) using a hardware platform that costs only a tiny fraction of the most advanc... |
9 August 2007
05:51 GMT |
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Moore's Law is an empirical observation made in 1965 that basically says that the number of transistors inside an integrated circuit will double every 24 months, while costing the same to produce. This observation is attributed to Gordon E. Moore, a co-founder of Intel. Sometimes it is quoted as every 18 months,... |
25 July 2007
08:29 GMT |
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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
03:54 GMT |
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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
05:51 GMT |
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Alongside so many computer systems aimed at students and built for education purposes, there are only two systems that jump ahead of the herd thanks to their innovative approach: the Classmate PC from Intel and the famous "$100 laptop" XO from OLPC. Even if now OLPC and Intel are working toward a common goal (Intel e... |
24 July 2007
04:43 GMT |
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OLPC (One Laptop Per Child) is an interesting campaign funded by Nicholas Negroponte that is meant to bring one inexpensive laptop to every child from every corner of the world. But when the laptops are used with a different purpose than educational matters, there is a problem. Reuters reports that Nigerian pupils ar... |
23 July 2007
05:19 GMT |
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The OLPC (One Laptop Per Child) announced that it will begin mass production of its XO laptops and shortly afterwards shippings will start. Hardware producers received the green light to speed up the manufacture of all computer parts needed to make the millions of the desired low cost machines. As the OLPC organizati... |
23 July 2007
02:58 GMT |
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Since the first x86 compatible processors ever saw the light of day, AMD and Intel have been bitter rivals, competing for every percent of a hugely profitable market. Many times their competition brought joy to computer users as processor pricing went way down and performance steadily climbed. Now it seems that becau... |
16 July 2007
08:46 GMT |
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Nicholas Negroponte's "One Laptop Per Child" program is bringing Intel on board as a possible future hardware supplier and partner. Intel will become the 11th member of the board, joining the already present Google, eBay, Nortel, RedHat and Advanced Micro Devices. The foundation which runs the OLPC program plans... |
14 July 2007
03:41 GMT |
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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
03:23 GMT |
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The One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) project had a media event in Cambridge during last week where they've clarified the rumors related to a possible shipping of XO-laptops with a Windows XP Starter Edition. Walter Bender, president of Software and Content with OLPC, Microsoft and OLPC have nothing to share. Accordin... |
4 May 2007
04:31 GMT |
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The initiative which began a long time ago in the minds of some MIT brainiacs as just another project, one like many others, has really seen acceptance among people all around the globe. Having a $100 laptop is something that many desire and are also able to afford. But somebody had to come and ruin the party for eve... |
27 April 2007
09:22 GMT |
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As you might have already heard, One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) Association is a non-profit organization set up by some faculty members of the MIT Media Lab that aims to develop low-cost (US$ 100) laptops and distribute them among children all over the world, especially to those in less developed countries, through the... |
26 April 2007
06:44 GMT |
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The OLPC officials have recently revealed the real costs for the 100 US$ laptop. According to them, the laptop exceeds the planned cost nine times. Moreover, OLPC also announced that they will re-Windows the operating system, which implies significant payment. The low-cost computers will have flash memory instead of... |
24 April 2007
10:19 GMT |
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After the moment when Bill Gates almost had a heart attack when he heard the plan to develop a $100 laptop, everybody started to get involved in a project such as this, everybody except Mr. Gates. The reason behind this is that Microsoft was almost ready to bring out Windows Vista, and Bill knew that if the OLPC proj... |
18 April 2007
10:07 GMT |
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The OLPC (One Laptop Per Child) is a unique machine (portable personal computer) created by specialists, specifically for the world's poorest children.It features a 7.5-inch TFT screen that supports a maximum resolution of 1200x900 pixels and with a self-refreshing display. Also, the OLPC consumes very little p... |
17 April 2007
13:51 GMT |
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Quanta Computer is the biggest notebook manufacturer in the world, they manufacture their products on given specifications from different notebook companies. You might be in doubt, thinking "I own a HP notebook, it's manufactured by HP!" Well you own a Dell or an Acer, they're all manufactured by Quanta Com... |
30 March 2007
03:21 GMT |
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Part of an ongoing program, through which Intel is trying to give something back to the needy and the poor, has led to the development of Intel powered Classmate PCs. This initiative, called "Intel World Ahead Program", was originally announced in May 2006. At the Intel Developer Forum held in San Francisco, Intel�... |
23 March 2007
04:44 GMT |
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Will Wright (the creator of Spore and The Sims) and Electronic Arts have thought of a great idea to make a contribution in helping out developing countries. What they're hoping to do is to distribute a free version of an open source version of the original SimCity for the $100 One Laptop Per Child's XO comp... |
9 March 2007
07:13 GMT |
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