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Now you can get OLPC's Sugar on a stick
News Intel's Classmate PC is another offering, which analyst firm, Gartner, has labelled more effective in driving the adoption of PCs in emerging markets' educational institutions because of its "classroom-focused approach". [29 Jun 2009]
Photos: Macs through the ages
Photo It resembles later low-cost laptop designs such as the XO Laptop and Intel's Classmate PC and came with integrated wireless networking, which would eventually become ubiquitous but was a rare thing in 1999. [22 Jan 2009]
Touchscreen tablet latest Classmate for Intel
News Intel has revealed the design for a tablet version of its Classmate PC, a low-powered netbook designed for use in primary schools. The tablet-format Classmate, which was unveiled on Friday at the... [13 Jan 2009]
Peru to test run Windows XO laptop
News Microsoft, meanwhile, is working with XO but has also backed the use of Windows on other education-oriented machines, such as Intel's Classmate PC. Microsoft and the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) project announced Monday... [16 Sep 2008]
Photos: Budget laptops for UK kids
Photo It is based on the second generation Intel Classmate PC - part of the One Laptop Per Child initiative, and is called the Fizzbook. With its inspiration coming from the One Laptop Per Child initiative, Intel has teamed up... [22 Aug 2008]
Photos: Say hello to Intel's little helpers
Photo This second generation of Intel's Classmate PC is part of an ongoing project to design better and more useful personal computers for school children in developing countries. With two cameras on its hand, the device is... [18 Jun 2008]
Intel registers second-gen Classmate
News Intel has launched its second-generation Classmate PC at the Intel Developer Forum in Shanghai. The new laptop shares its basic hardware design with the first generation Classmate, as well as a focus on... [04 Apr 2008]
Intel's Classmate registering in Europe and US
News Intel plans on expanding the distribution of its inexpensive, school children-friendly Classmate PC to US and European retail outlets, according to a Reuters report. The Classmate will sell for $250 to... [20 Mar 2008]
Linux-based laptop latest OLPC rival?
News The One laptop is not the first low-cost laptop to be aimed at the educational market - the One Laptop per Child project's XO device, Asus's Eee PC and Intel's Classmate PC all fit the same bill. Wireless from A to Z [19 Feb 2008]
Intel waves goodbye to OLPC
News According to Intel, Negroponte asked the chipmaker to stop selling its Classmate PC while it was part of the OLPC, which is currently shipping its XO laptop based on a chip from AMD. The Classmate PC was... [04 Jan 2008]
Brampton Factor: Bringing tech to the developing world
Comment Hardware projects - OLPC and Intel's Classmate - are liable to get tangled in arguments about the location of manufacturing plants. The many schemes pioneered by Western tech powers to spread hardware and software into... [17 Jul 2007]
Intel signs up to $100 laptop
News Intel chairman Craig Barrett has been the public face of the company's work on its Classmate PCs for emerging nations, and he has been very dismissive of the OLPC project in the past, calling it "the $100 gadget". [16 Jul 2007]
Red Hat touts desktop Linux for developing world
News Intel is a partner in the design and distribution of the software, which is specifically primed for several Intel PC designs dubbed Classmate, Affordable, Community and Low-Cost for emerging-nation customers. [10 May 2007]
'Enjoy it while it lasts' says Yahoo founder to Google
News Like Brin and Page, Yang and fellow Stanford classmate David Filo started a Web site that has become one of the most visited places on the Internet. Jerry Yang has some advice to the two Stanford graduates now running... [08 Oct 2004]
Student escapes punishment for PDA videoing of teacher
News A student who used a PDA to secretly film a classmate being given a sound scolding and who later posted the video on the web has been let off with a warning, according to the daily newspaper the Straits Times. [17 Jul 2003]
