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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... [07 Oct 2008]
Photos: The new-look $100 laptop
Photo The new One Laptop per Child (OLPC) machine - the XO-2 - is one large touch display that can be transformed into a hinged laptop with a touch keyboard, an electronic book or two-screen display. A low... [21 May 2008]
Intel's Classmate registering in Europe and US
News The XO laptop from the One Laptop Per Child initiative, which also builds low-cost laptops for the same markets, has been available via retail in the US for a while. OLPC had a promotion... [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... [19 Feb 2008]
Intel waves goodbye to OLPC
News Intel has announced it is leaving the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) project. And Intel said the OLPC also asked the chipmaker to stop working with any company that produces low-cost... [04 Jan 2008]
Red Hat touts desktop Linux for developing world
News And it's working on the One Laptop Per Child effort to bring $100 laptops to students in poor countries who've never used computers before. Intel is a partner in the design and distribution of the software, which is... [10 May 2007]
Bangalore dreams of a second Silicon Valley
News And a dominant child tends to take over controlling the mouse and thus gets the most out of the PC use. The technology allows more than one mouse to be used at once, and the team found that for some... [02 Apr 2007]
Telecoms trends
AS Analysis Nicholas Negroponte won the number 6 spot for his One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) project, which has opted for mesh networking to connect up its low-cost laptops in developing countries.... [25 Sep 2006]
Intel announces $400 PC school boon
News The Eduwise laptop joins low-cost PC projects such as AMD's Personal Internet Communicator and MIT's Nicholas Negroponte's One Laptop Per Child programme. Intel unveiled... [04 May 2006]
$100 wind-up laptops for the developing world?
News Negroponte, who laid out his original proposal at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, in January, said MIT and his not-for-profit group, called One Laptop Per Child, is in discussions with five countries -... [29 Sep 2005]
Leader: Can Tony close the digital divide?
Leader For every child that comes back from school with a new-found love of technology there will be parents disinclined to listen. To that end the government is providing a low-cost national... [01 Apr 2005]
