Nicholas Negroponte
Jonney Shih
AS Profile The netbook concept was no doubt inspired by Nicholas Negroponte's One Laptop Per Child project to bring low-cost machines to school kids in the developing world. Jonney Shih, CEO of PC and graphics card... [07 Oct 2008]
Yahoo!'s board gets shareholder backing
News Nicholas Negroponte OLPC Yahoo! s board of directors won strong backing from shareholders at its annual meeting on Friday, with Jerry Yang, the company's embattled CEO, receiving 85 per cent of the vote... [04 Aug 2008]
Infosys launches radical retail tech services
News Nicholas Negroponte OLPC Infosys CEO Kris Gopalakrishnan is an unassuming man, who doesn't use his position to be imposing. It's less important for him to be the company's controller than to look like he... [01 Aug 2008]
Switch from oil to silicon
Comment This approach is most effective when the raw product or service can be digitised and distributed to the point of use, as Nicholas Negroponte noted in his book Being Digital, shipping bits, not atoms.... [31 Jul 2008]
Greek island gets wireless mesh network
News Tourists and locals on the Greek Island of Patmos will soon be able to enjoy island-wide wi-fi web access courtesy of $100 laptop founder Nicholas Negroponte's passion for the web. But today it plays... [24 Jul 2008]
The Weekly Round-Up: 23.05.08
Round-Up OLPC founder Nicholas Negroponte said in a statement: "Based on feedback from governments, educators and most important, from the children themselves, we are aggressively working to lower the cost, power... [23 May 2008]
Photos: The new-look $100 laptop
Photo When it goes on sale in 2010 the XO-2's price is expected to fall to just $75, taking it below the original $100 price target set by OLPC founder Nicholas Negroponte. Nicholas... [21 May 2008]
BT CEO Ben Verwaayen to step down
News Nicholas Negroponte BT's CEO Ben Verwaayen is to step down as CEO on 31 May 2008 after more than six years at the telco where he championed its push into broadband and helped it dodge regulator Ofcom's axe. [08 Apr 2008]
Google, Yahoo! and MySpace announce OpenSocial Foundation
News Nicholas Negroponte Google, Yahoo! and News Corp's MySpace.com have announced they have formed the OpenSocial Foundation, a not-for-profit group to support the OpenSocial initiative that Google... [26 Mar 2008]
OLPC on the hunt for CEO
News In the wake of a spat with former partner Intel and a reorganisation, Nicholas Negroponte is looking for a chief executive for his One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) organisation, according to BusinessWeek.... [07 Mar 2008]
Profile: Nandan Nilekani, co-chairman, Infosys
News Nicholas Negroponte OLPC Nandan Nilekani is pretty much a legend in his own lifetime. Co-founder of Indian outsourcing giant Infosys, foundation board member of the World Economic Forum, co-founder of... [03 Mar 2008]
Steve Ballmer's $44.6bn letter to Yahoo!
News Nicholas Negroponte OLPC Microsoft today made a $44.6bn offer for web giant Yahoo! valuing the company 62 per cent higher than its latest stock value. According to Microsoft, the bid is intended to... [01 Feb 2008]
Microsoft to trial XP on OLPC's $100 laptops
News The news comes despite OLPC chairman, Nicholas Negroponte, saying OLPC was working with Microsoft to put both Windows and Linux onto the laptops. Negroponte hit out, saying the chipmaker... [11 Jan 2008]
OLPC's Negroponte hits out at Intel
News Nicholas Negroponte, the founder of One Laptop per Child (OLPC), has hit out at Intel's decision to leave the $100 laptop project, accusing the chip-maker of contributing nothing while it was a member. [07 Jan 2008]
Intel waves goodbye to OLPC
News The news, first reported yesterday by The Wall Street Journal in an email alert, comes just six months after Intel and OLPC founder Nicholas Negroponte agreed to settle their differences and join forces... [04 Jan 2008]
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