OLPC XO-2: Getting Many New Features like Multi-Touch and Haptic Screen

"The OLPC XO-2 is coming in 2010 and is going to change the future of low-cost laptops (I think) as it will come in e-book form with two touch-screen dual indoor-and-sunlight displays! Yes, this laptop that now is prototype will not provide any physical keyboard but, the...

OLPC XO Generation 2.0: A foldable e-book Form Laptop Coming 2010

"OLPC XO Generation 2.0 or OLPC XO 2.0 is a kind of TabletPC. It comes with two touch-sensitive displays. The displays are dual indoor-and-sunlight displays;OLPC XO 2.0 is muchsmaller (almost half the size) than current OLPC and it has a book form and canbe carried...

'$100 Laptop' Project Teams With Microsoft

The One Laptop Per Child project has undergone all kinds of trials and tribulations, both in terms of its price and functionality, and its public perception.OLPC has long been wary of trying to integrate a Microsoft...

Photographers Without Borders Makes Donation to OLPC

PHOTOGRAPHERS WITHOUT BORDERS MAKES DONATIONTO ONE LAPTOP PER CHILD TO SUPPORT EDUCATIONROCKFORD, IL —Photographers Without Borders is proud to make a cash donation to the One Laptop Per Child Foundation in support of its mission.The mission of Photographers Without Borders...

One Laptop Per Child Versus Intel--Who Speaks for India and China?

Money talks?"At the Consumer Electronic Show this week, the One Laptop Per Child foundation was supposed to make two announcements—the number of computers it sold under the Give One, Get One holiday program and a...

Intel Won't Give Laptops to Children

Will the One Laptop Per Child dream ever be fully-realized?"Intel Corp (INTC.O: Quote, Profile , Research) said on Thursday it will drop out of the One Laptop Per Child project and resign from the board after the...

One laptop project dealt big blow

"Intel has pulled out of a project to put cheap laptops in the hands of children in the developing world. Citing "philosophical" differences, Intel has withdrawn its funding and technical help from the One Laptop...

First OLPC deployment: now it’s real.

"This week, Uruguay became the first-ever real, non-pilot deployment site of OLPC XO laptops. And I was there to hand out the first one."

Give one, Get one Started: OLPC XO Laptop Is Available in the US

"The non-profit organization One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) acted to its promise and the OLPC XO laptop has been available for purchase in the United States through the “Give One Get One” program Since the 12 of November. This program will continue till November 26th in the...

One Laptop Per Child Experiencing Growing Pains

“I have to some degree underestimated the difference between shaking the hand of a head of state and having a check written, And yes, it has been a disappointment.” Nicholas NegroponteThe One Laptop Per Child...

Uruguay buys first '$100 laptops'

"The first official order for the so-called "$100 laptop" has been placed by the government of Uruguay. The South American country has bought 100,000 of the machines for schoolchildren aged six to 12. A further...

Cheap Laptops for a Third World

Opinion Barry Artiste, Now Public Contributor Years past the words "A Chicken in every Pot" got Politicians elected by a starving populace in the depression's dirty 30's. Today Corporate America's words "A...

One Laptop Per Child project already in Nigeria

One Laptop Per Child project has begun in Nigeria. My heart goes out to Khaled Hassounah, director of Nicholas Negroponte's One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) program in Africa and the Middle East and everyone who...

Feeding education to hungry children worldwide

"Nicholas Negroponte, founder of the non-profit group One Laptop Per Child (OLPC), wants to stop the spread of poverty throughout the world. But instead of filling the void of third-world economic backpedaling,...

Government orders one million laptops for Nigerian children

"Nigeria has officially ordered and paid for one million of the One Laptop per Child (OLPC) devices, according to the Nigerian Vanguard newspaper. The deal is the first actual order for the project that aims to...

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