classmate in news
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 the developing-world education markets. [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 $350, Lila Ibrahim, general manager of Intel's... [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 one of the sources of friction between... [04 Jan 2008]
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 archrival Google -- enjoy it... [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]
