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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]
Now 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. Sugar Labs, responsible for building the low-cost device's OS, has released it online for loading onto any USB flash drive greater than 1GB,... [29 Jun 2009]
Cheat Sheet: Netbooks
Cheat Sheet The operating system under the bonnet of the original Asus Eee PC, and the OLPC's XO laptop, are versions of Linux. Well, I'm assuming you've heard of the XO laptop - or '$100 laptop' - from the One... [08 May 2009]
OLPC: Bye-bye AMD, hello Via
News The One Laptop per Child project's XO laptop will switch to a Via processor as part of a general hardware refresh. Generation 1.5 of the XO machine will have the same industrial design as the original... [21 Apr 2009]
PC makers warming to OLPC's 'copy us' offer?
News In an email interview with ZDNet Asia, Negroponte said the OLPC intends to make open as many aspects of its next-generation XO laptop as possible. Whitebox vendors in Asia may warm up to the One Laptop Per Child's... [02 Mar 2009]
Photos: Macs through the ages
Photo It resembles later low-cost laptop designs such as the XO Laptop and Intel's Classmate PC and came with integrated wireless networking, which would eventually become ubiquitous but was a rare thing in 1999. [22 Jan 2009]
OLPC's workforce slashed by 50 per cent
News Through the programme, anyone can pay for two XO laptops; one is shipped to the buyer, and the other is sent to a school kid in a developing nation. The device comes loaded with both Windows XP and the Linux-based Sugar... [08 Jan 2009]
Photos: Top 10 presents for a CIO this Christmas
Photo Plus, spending £275 (plus P+P) to get it on Amazon.co.uk under the 'Give One, Get One' scheme means you'll be equipping a child in the developing world with an XO too. XO x 2: Continuing the charity... [28 Nov 2008]
UK can 'Give one, Get one' for Christmas
News According to a listing on Amazon.co.uk on Tuesday, people will be able to buy an XO laptop via the scheme on 16 December. With each order placed under G1G1, one XO laptop is sent to the customer and... [19 Nov 2008]
Europe gets OLPC's Give One Get One $100 laptops
News Under the G1G1 scheme, people will be able to purchase an XO laptop, the price of which will also buy and send an XO to a child in a developing country. One Laptop per Child's Give One, Get One scheme is... [13 Nov 2008]
OLPC: Windows vs Linux
News On the outside, the Windows version of the XO laptop looks just like the Linux model. Microsoft has managed to slim down the OS enough to boot up from a 2GB flash memory card and has written drivers for a number of the... [24 Oct 2008]
The five products Apple must make
Comment Apple, after all, has indicated it's not scared of the portable PC - its Mac Minis have been part of its hardware line-up for years and the One Laptop Per Child project could have had its XO machines running on Mac OS X... [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]
The Bandwidth Demand Surge: Drivers & Solutions for Network Operators
White Paper The surplus network capacity that characterized the post-bubble telecom environment has quickly evaporated, due to a confluence of market factors. Peer-to-peer networking traffic, characterized by high-bandwidth file sharing, is placing... [11 Sep 2008]
