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- OLPC delays angering G1G1 donors
- If you've been following the OLPC news, you shoulde remember that it launched a Give 1 Get 1 (G1G1) program in November last year. The scheme allowed individuals to obtain an OLPC XO laptop for themselves by making a donation of $399, or twice the cost of what a unit...
- Tags: Delay, One Laptop Per Child Project, Paul Mah
- Blog posts 2008-01-29
- OLPC: Microsoft to the rescue?
- I'm sure many of you will remember the One Laptop Per Child project (OLPC). The project has been through some difficult times. The so called $100 laptop actually costs $188. Nicholas Negroponte could have inadvertently doomed the OLPC project by setting a target price of $100 on the XO laptop. ...
- Tags: Microsoft Corp., Intel Corp., One Laptop Per Child Project, XO, Justin Fielding
- Blog posts 2008-01-17
- CES 2008: OLPC XO Laptop
- The One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) project's XO Laptop may cost a bit more than the originally planned price of $100, but it still offers a very, kid-friendly computing experience. TechRepublic's Jason Hiner saw the XO Laptop in action at CES 2008.
- Tags: Consumer Electronics Show, One Laptop Per Child Project, ces2008, CES, OLPC, XO laptop, one laptop per child, laptop, open source, linux, TechRepublic Inc.
- Videos 2008-01-18
- OLPC ex-CTO plans $75 laptop
- Mary Lou Jepsen left the OLPC project to start Pixel Qi, and she aims to bring to reality a sub-$100 laptop. An excerpt from TechCrunch: Jepsen explains her low-power, low-cost, green approach to computer design here and states that one of Pixel Qi's goals is the...
- Tags: Laptop Computer, One Laptop Per Child Project, Notebooks, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Arun Radhakrishnan
- Blog posts 2008-01-11
- Nigerian firm demands $20 million from OLPC over patent infringement
- Lagos Analysis Corporation (Lancor), the firm that brought a patent infringement suit against the OLPC project, has now approached the Nigerian court, claiming $20 million in damages. An excerpt from Groklaw: I kid you not. $20 million in "damages." And an injunction blocking OLPC from distribution...
- Tags: Injunction, One Laptop Per Child Project, Arun Radhakrishnan
- Blog posts 2008-01-03
- Intel quits OLPC
- Intel has quit One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) amidst accusations of it playing dirty, despite supposedly being on the same team. According to the New York Times: A frail partnership between Intel and the One Laptop Per Child educational computing group was undone last month in...
- Tags: Intel Corp., One Laptop Per Child Project, Corporate Governance, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Paul Mah
- Blog posts 2008-01-07
- John Dvorak of PCMag disses OLPC
- John C. Dvorak of PCMag apparently did not have too high an opinion of the OLPC, and he is not afraid to let it be be known. In his strongly worded article last week titled: One laptop per child doesn't change the World, he ridiculed the project...
- Tags: John Dvorak, One Laptop Per Child Project, Paul Mah
- Blog posts 2007-12-10
- OLPC sued by Nigerians for patent infringement
- In an ironic twist of events, OLPC's Nicholas Negroponte has received a letter from Lagos Analysis Corporation (LANCOR), a U.S.-based Nigerian-owned company that claims the XO laptop infringed on its multilingual keyboard technology. Excerpt from Marketwire: LANCOR's lawsuit alleges that OLPC purchased two KONYIN Multilingual Keyboard...
- Tags: One Laptop Per Child Project, Keyboards, Hardware, Peripherals, Paul Mah
- Blog posts 2007-11-27
- OLPC Give One, Get One program extended to end-2007
- Based on the strength of the response to the Get One, Give One (G1G1) initiative, OLPC has announced that the program will be offered until December 31, 2007. And no wonder, donations to the G1G1 program have averaged US$2 million per day over the last 10 days....
- Tags: One Laptop Per Child Project, Paul Mah
- Blog posts 2007-11-23
- Electronic Arts to donate SimCity to the OLPC project
- Electronic Arts plans to donate the original version of the popular SimCity computer game to the OLPC (One Laptop Per Child) project for inclusion on the XO laptop. The idea is that the game will be distributed to schoolchildren in developing countries not only to entertain but...
- Tags: Electronic Arts Inc., Idea, Laptop Computer, One Laptop Per Child Project, XO, Don Hopkins, Games, Personal Technology, Paul Mah
- Blog posts 2007-11-11
- XO laptop finally goes into mass production
- After a number of delays, the much-anticipated XO laptop finally went into mass production. CNET News.com reported that Taiwan's Quanta Computer started producing the XO early Tuesday morning in its new Changshu manufacturing center, just two hours northwest of Shanghai. Excerpt from News.com: The commencement...
- Tags: Laptop Computer, One Laptop Per Child Project, XO, Notebooks, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Paul Mah
- Blog posts 2007-11-06
- Why the Classmate PC is doing better than the XO laptop
- The recent order by the government of Uruguay for 100,000 XO laptops has certainly given proponents of the OLPC project something to cheer about. Yet the hard truth is that there has been little in the way of good news so far. In fact, the dearth...
- Tags: Laptop Computer, Intel Corp., One Laptop Per Child Project, Notebooks, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Paul Mah
- Blog posts 2007-10-31
- $100 laptop doubles in price but generates first large order
- The $100 laptop project has gotten twice as good, or at least twice as expensive, as the Cambridge Foundation has not achieved the economies of scale that it thought it might at the beginning of the project. Still, $200 for a laptop is an incredible price, and the project...
- Tags: $100 Laptop, Laptop Computer, One Laptop Per Child Project, Uruguay, Notebooks, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Andy Moon
- Blog posts 2007-10-30
- Electronic Arts donates SimCity to the OLPC
- Perhaps TR members could chip in about how a game on city building will benefit schoolchildren from a rural area. What other games would you recommend be bundled with the XO laptop?RE: Electronic Arts donates SimCity to the OLPCThanks for writing the article about OLPC SimCity! There's more information...
- Tags: Games, paulmah@..., SimCity, game, One Laptop Per Child project, Electronic Arts Inc., city building, benefit schoolchildren
- Discussion threads 2007-11-11
- Public can now purchase an XO Laptop, with a catch
- You must have heard about the OLPC, or One Laptop Per Child, project by now. OLPC is an ambitious project to bring computers to children in developing nations, and the resulting machine is slated to start mass production just next month. Not everything is smooth sailing...
- Tags: One Laptop Per Child Project, Paul Mah
- Blog posts 2007-09-24
- $100 laptops to be available to the public
- A new marketing strategy being adopted by the proponents of the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) project may result in the XO Laptops being available in developed nations while contributing to their spread in developing nations as well. The laptop, originally targeted with...
- Tags: Strategy, $100 Laptop, Laptop Computer, One Laptop Per Child Project, Notebooks, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Arun Radhakrishnan
- Blog posts 2007-09-27
- Why the Classmate PC is doing better than the XO laptop
- What exactly did the OLPC group do wrong?I don't think it's what OLPC did wrong or Intel did rightA non-profit organization's project can't really be compared to a merchandise product being backed by one of *thee* tech industry heavyweights.Really, if one is looking at OLPC as a tech project or...
- Tags: paulmah@..., One Laptop Per Child project, Intel Corp.
- Discussion threads 2007-10-31
- $100 laptop is now $188
- The much publicized "$100 laptop" of the nonprofit One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) initiative has acknowledged that the devices will now cost $188 when mass production begins this fall. The initial $100 price point has been relegated to that of a long-term goal. A variety of...
- Tags: $100 Laptop, Laptop Computer, One Laptop Per Child Project, Government, Paul Mah
- Blog posts 2007-09-15
- Watch two kids repair the XO laptop
- In what must be the ultimate endorsement of the design of the OLPC's (One Laptop Per Child) XO laptop, two children -- ages 10 and 8 years old -- were put to the challenge of replacing the motherboard of one such device. It was hardly surprising that...
- Tags: Laptop Computer, One Laptop Per Child Project, Paul Mah
- Blog posts 2007-08-13
- Meet the XO: OLPC project redefines the laptop
- Not sure about you, but when I first saw a picture of the XO - the end result of the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) initiative, my mind immediately associated it with a kid's toy. Like many of those disappointing toys in my younger days that come...
- Tags: Battery, Safety, Laptop Computer, One Laptop Per Child Project, XO, Mesh Networking, Engineering, Notebooks, Networking, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Paul Mah
- Blog posts 2007-07-25
