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RSS olpcNow you can get OLPC's Sugar on a stick
News The OLPC (one laptop per child) XO-1 interface is now available on a USB stick. Called "Sugar on a Stick v1", Sugar Labs hopes it will help spread the use of the OS in classrooms, without the need for the... [29 Jun 2009]
Cheat Sheet: Netbooks
Cheat Sheet OLPC's $100 laptop The operating system under the bonnet of the original Asus Eee PC, and the OLPC's XO laptop, are versions of Linux. Netbooks… fishermen's favourite toy? Nope. Not even close. They're... [08 May 2009]
WiMAX in Education
White Paper There are many initiatives around the world to put laptop computers in the hands of school children including "one-to-one" computing and One Laptop Per Child (OLPC). A laptop computer has powerful implications for... [22 Apr 2009]
OLPC: Bye-bye AMD, hello Via
News Generation 1.5 of the XO machine will have the same industrial design as the original model, but will use a Via C7-M processor, John Watlington, OLPC's vice president of hardware development, wrote in a post late last week. [21 Apr 2009]
PC makers warming to OLPC's 'copy us' offer?
News Whitebox vendors in Asia may warm up to the One Laptop Per Child's (OLPC's) decision to open its design. Earlier this month, OLPC founder Nicholas Negroponte announced the organisation's intention to... [02 Mar 2009]
OLPC's workforce slashed by 50 per cent
News Intel, which was briefly part of the project, quit in January 2008, claiming OLPC was pressuring it not to compete with its own laptops. The One Laptop Per Child project announced Wednesday that it is slashing its... [08 Jan 2009]
UK can 'Give one, Get one' for Christmas
News Customers buying the OLPC computer through the Amazon.co.uk site will find they have to pay a charge of £50 for postage and packing. A spokesperson for Amazon told ZDNet UK this charge was not the responsibility of... [19 Nov 2008]
Europe gets OLPC's Give One Get One $100 laptops
News Nicholas Negroponte, founder and chairman of the OLPC project, told silicon.com sister site ZDNet UK on Wednesday that version two of Give One, Get One (G1G1) will enable European users to participate in the scheme. [13 Nov 2008]
OLPC: Windows vs Linux
News Ultimately, OLPC hopes to offer a dual-boot option, though that is still being developed. On the outside, the Windows version of the XO laptop looks just like the Linux model. But simply booting up the device shows that... [24 Oct 2008]
Software for the other five billion
Comment With companies such as Cisco, Intel and Microsoft and organisations such as the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) foundation pushing to get devices into as many people's hands as possible, one missing piece remains: content. [23 Oct 2008]
Jonney Shih
AS Profile But, as one panellist points out, Asus took OLPC's device as a starting point and created a fully functional commercial PC with affordability written all over it - thereby "forcing the whole laptop market to respond". [07 Oct 2008]
OLPC rivals get 'vicious'
News When the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) organisation first mooted the idea of a super low cost laptop aimed at schoolchildren in the developing world some years ago, it was arguably on its own in the market. [16 Sep 2008]
Peru to test run Windows XO laptop
News Microsoft and the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) project announced Monday that Peru will be the first country to try out XO laptops running Microsoft Windows as part of a nine-month pilot programme. Microsoft has been... [16 Sep 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 in his favour. [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 is. [01 Aug 2008]
