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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 in his favour. [04 Aug 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 host to Negroponte who owns a holiday home on it... [24 Jul 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 kick-started last year to promote a universal standard... [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. OLPC chairman Negroponte said in an interview... [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 the Indian National Association of Software and... [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 better position the two companies in the online... [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 had "contributed nothing" to OLPC. [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 to bring computing power to emerging nations. [04 Jan 2008]
CIO Essentials: Xmas gadgets, mobile ban and green IT
News Nicholas Negroponte Ever wondered what CIOs are reading on silicon.com? Our CIO Essentials feature puts you in the picture. Each week a leading IT chief picks his or her top stories from the past seven days and explains why they matter. [11 Dec 2007]
Oracle users demand better support
News Nicholas Negroponte OLPC Oracle customers want better product support through improved call centres and more information about services. Ronan Miles, chairman of the UK Oracle User Group, told silicon.com: "Areas of issue are in the support sphere. [10 Dec 2007]
Granger to depart NHS IT at end of year
News Nicholas Negroponte The head of the £12.4bn NHS IT programme will step down from his role in charge of the project at the end of this year. NHS IT director-general Richard Granger announced his plan to leave his role in charge of the National... [05 Dec 2007]
One Laptop Per Child gets a boost from Peru
News Nicholas Negroponte, a Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor and founder of the project, announced the deal on Saturday. One month after the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) charity went into mass production with its $188 laptop, the Peruvian... [03 Dec 2007]
Steve Jobs top of the Power pops
News Nicholas Negroponte OLPC Apple co-founder and chief executive Steve Jobs has topped a list of the 25 most powerful business people in the world. Jobs took the top spot in Fortune magazine's Power 25 for 2007, for having "twice altered the direction... [29 Nov 2007]
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