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News Professor Nicholas Negroponte, technology guru and founder of MIT's Media Lab, outlined his vision for the future of business in Europe at the IDC forum in Paris yesterday - and claimed that the US will leave it way... [14 Sep 1999]
Negroponte slams disastrous 3G bonanza
News Internet guru, Nicholas Negroponte, has accused the UK government of mortgaging its children's future by pricing third generation (3G) mobile technology out of the range of most consumers. Negroponte -... [04 Jun 2000]
Nicholas Negroponte
AS Profile Nicholas Negroponte, the man behind the XO - the device formerly known as the $100 laptop - makes his third appearance on the Agenda Setters list. While his own agenda of bringing better education to the developing world... [30 Sep 2009]
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]
Nicholas Negroponte
AS Profile Negroponte founded the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's innovative Media Lab in 1985, which has been carrying out important research into communications ever since. The panel felt that... [12 Oct 2007]
Nicholas Negroponte
AS Profile Nicholas Negroponte heads up the influential MIT Media Labs but that's not the reason he makes the top 50. Negroponte has been picked for his sideline, the One Laptop Per Child (aka $100 laptop) project. [25 Sep 2006]
ITU 06 diary - Buzzword bingo, too much text and a one-on-one with Negroponte
Comment Despite the blanket of technology at ITU, my planned meeting with Nicholas Negroponte, head of the One Laptop Per Child foundation - better known as the makers of the $100 laptop - is beset with communications difficulties. [05 Dec 2006]
Q&A: Nicholas Negroponte, founder, One Laptop Per Child
Comment As head and founder of the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) project, Nicholas Negroponte is aiming to bridge the digital divide by bringing computers to the developing world - in the shape of the $100 laptop. [05 Dec 2006]
$100 laptop 'will take desktop Linux global'
News The One Laptop per Child (OLPC) project will make Linux as popular on the desktop as it is on the server today, according to Nicholas Negroponte, head of the project and founder of MIT's media lab. Speaking on the final... [05 Jun 2006]
CIO Jury: $100 laptop is "fundamentally flawed"
News The $100 laptop project pioneered by Nicholas Negroponte has again come under fire for failing to address the need for basic communications and education infrastructure in developing countries first.... [31 Jul 2006]
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... [07 Mar 2008]
$100 laptop field-trials on the horizon
News Reports that trials of the $100 laptop project will kick off in Thailand alone have been quashed by Nicholas Negroponte, founder and chairman of the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) association. In an email sent to... [22 Aug 2006]
$100 laptops: Rich countries to buy for poor
News Professor Nicholas Negroponte, head of the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) project, responsible for the $100 laptop, has revealed the OLPC is in discussions with a number of rich countries about orders for the low-cost... [05 Dec 2006]
Colonel Gaddafi buys 1.2 million cheap laptops
News Libya will reportedly be dishing out $100 laptops to its schoolchildren, after signing a deal with Nicholas Negroponte's One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) project. According to The New York Times, silicon.com Agenda Setter... [12 Oct 2006]
Intel signs up to $100 laptop
News After years of squabbling, Intel and Nicholas Negroponte have agreed to put their differences behind them and join forces in bringing PCs to children around the world. Negroponte's One Laptop Per Child... [16 Jul 2007]
