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One Laptop Per Child Project Cuts 50% of Staff
The economic crisis is leaving no industry, organization, or sector unscathed — and the One Laptop Per Child project is no exception. Today the project's founder Nicholas Negroponte announced that OLPC will be...
created by Jarrett Martineau | 3 years ago | updated 3 years ago
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Buy one laptop -- and a child gets one free
With Christmas just around the corner, I wanted to remind readers of the "One Laptop per Child" program, developed by Nicholas Negroponte, founder of MIT Media Lab. What better gift can your own child get, knowing they've helped another?"LONDON, England (CNN) -- For the...
created by Mary Richard | 3 years ago | updated 3 years ago
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465 views | 25 recommendations | 6 comments
One iPhone per Child OiPC
Satirical off shoot from the OLPC (one laptop per child). Sorry could not resist the connection. Thursday October 30th 2008 PCWorld posted an article stating “Lower-income U.S. consumers are Flocking to... Amazon to sell OLPCs
The One Laptop Per Child Foundation offers a low cost, Linux-based, easily repairable laptop to children in places where computers are rare and expensive; however, you can now buy one from Amazon.com...
created by Jason Sanders | 3 years ago | updated 3 years ago
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535 views | 6 recommendations | 8 comments
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...
created by Jarrett Martineau | 3 years ago | updated 3 years ago
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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...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...
created by Jarrett Martineau | 4 years ago | updated 4 years ago
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884 views | 0 recommendations | 11 comments
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... 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...
created by Barry ORegan | 4 years ago | updated 4 years ago
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