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One Laptop Per Child gets a boost from Peru
News In November, the OLPC charity contracted Taiwan's Quanta Computer to start producing the green-and-white computer in its new Changshu manufacturing centre, which is located northwest of Shanghai. One month after the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC... [03 Dec 2007]
$100 laptop production gets underway
News This week, Taiwan's Quanta Computer started producing the computer in its Changshu manufacturing centre. Against all the naysayers, and thanks to great partners such as Quanta, we have developed and now manufactured the world's most advanced and... [07 Nov 2007]
Buy one $100 laptop, give one 'free'
News The laptops will be manufactured in Shanghai by Quanta. The One Laptop Per Child scheme has announced it will make its ruggedised laptops available in the US for a limited time period. The XO laptop, designed for use as an educational tool in... [25 Sep 2007]
$100 laptop gets set for mass production
News The laptop will be manufactured in Shanghai by Quanta. The One Laptop per Child (OLPC) organisation has announced that its ruggedised laptop, the XO, is going into mass production. The production line will be turned on in August for testing... [24 Jul 2007]
Cheat Sheet: The $100 laptop
Cheat Sheet A Taiwanese firm, Quanta Computer, is the design manufacturer. It's green and has a handle - is it a watering can? No, it's the $100 laptop. Basically some clever types are trying to build a load of laptops for poor children who can't afford to get... [29 May 2007]
KDE Case Study: Computer & Network Consulting
White Paper From KDE the company used to do KMail, Konqueror, KOrganizer, Quanta+ and KDevelop. Located at Jena, Germany Computer & Network Consulting use KDE since 1.0 on all office and development workstations and notebooks (Celeron 400 up to Athlon 1200). [25 Apr 2007]
Quantum Support for Multiprocessor Pfair Scheduling in Linux
White Paper This paper discusses several modifications to the Linux operating system in order to support aligned, staggered, and desynchronized quanta across multiple processors, where a quantum is a unit of processor allocation. [01 Apr 2007]
Tradeoffs in Transactional Memory Virtualization
White Paper TM systems should guarantee correct execution even when transactions exceed scheduling quanta, overflow the capacity of hardware caches and physical memory, or include more independent nesting levels than what is supported in hardware. [01 Apr 2007]
BSN Medical inks $35m outsourcing deal with Unisys
News The terms of the agreement were finalised within six months, according to Quanta. BSN Medical has outsourced its IT to Unisys in a contract worth an estimated $35m. The five-year deal will see Unisys supporting 3,500 of the German-based medical... [17 Jan 2007]
$100 laptop prototype goes on show
News Nearly two years later, the not-for-profit has received a key working prototype from the Quanta factory in Shanghai. The One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) project on Thursday showed off the latest prototype of what's widely known as the $100 laptop for... [17 Nov 2006]
One $100 laptop rolls off the production line
News Taiwanese contract manufacturer Quanta has been selected to manufacture the systems. The One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) crusade for low-cost PCs for developing nations is another step closer to the assembly line. [25 May 2006]
$100 laptop project signs up Taiwan's Quanta
News Taiwan's Quanta, the biggest manufacturer of laptops in the world, has signed on to the $100 laptop project. The One Laptop per Child (OLPC) organisation, which hopes to bring a $100 laptop championed by MIT's Nicholas Negroponte, has selected... [14 Dec 2005]
Distribution Outsourcing - Puget Sound Energy's Experience
White Paper Quanta Services Inc.and Pilchuck Inc.were selected after a year-long nationwide competitive procurement process. In February 2001, Puget Sound Energy (PSE) began outsourcing its new residential and commercial system extension and system maintenance... [24 Feb 2004]
Fight for smartphone supremacy hots up
News Furthermore, these reference designs are being used by Taiwanese IT equipment makers such as Quanta, HTC, Mitac and Benq to make PDA phones, according to recent reports. Mobile handsets will go the way of the PC, with a small number of platforms... [22 Jul 2003]
Q. Who is the world's largest notebook maker?
News Taiwanese contract manufacturer Quanta made more notebooks than any other PC-maker worldwide last year, as the trend for technology companies to outsource work continued. Quanta's compatriot rival Compal, meanwhile, made 4.1 million notebooks in... [10 Feb 2003]
