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One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) XO 2.0 Prototype Unveiled
2008-05-22 11:56:00 We all love the idea of OLPC being here with us in reality with the upcoming Windows XP version of their low cost XO and then all of a sudden they blow us away with the unveiling of the stunning XO 2.0, Nick Neg who unveiled this beauty must love his job. The all new XO ...
By: Cheap Laptops
Microsoft si allea ufficialmente con One Laptop per Child: è la vera sconfi
2008-05-17 09:00:00 Microsoft ha ufficialmente annunciato di aver “unito le forze” insieme a One Laptop per Child, l’associazione che vuole abbattere il digital divide, soprattutto nei Paesi del terzo mondo, vendendo computer portatili per 100 dollari. Fino ad ora le macchine erano equipaggiate con versioni apposite di Linux; molte associazioni e nazioni (come l’Egitto, ad esempio), però, ...
By: Geekissimo Blog
Sugar leaves the One Laptop per Child nest
2008-05-16 22:39:00 It’s been an interesting 24 hours for anyone who follows the One Laptop per Child project. Yesterday, OLPC announced that they have teamed up with Microsoft to make Windows XP available on the XO. Then it was announced that Walter Bender, OLPC’s former president of software and content, is forming a new organization called Sugar ...
By: Dubroy.com blog
Microsoft and One Laptop per Child (OLPC) Partner: Windows Available on XO
2008-05-16 12:26:00 The latest press release news in is about Microsoft and One Laptop per Child (OLPC) partnering to give very affordable computing to students worldwide. It is also said that Microsoft Windows is now available on XO laptops, these trials will begin in key emerging markets next month. Microsoft and One Laptop per Child (OLPC) have yes ...
By: Product Reviews
Impossible thing #6: Freedom for all with the One Laptop Per Child project
2008-05-07 05:46:00 For many years, there has been a growing concern about the emergence of a “digital divide” between rich and poor. The idea is that people who don’t meet a certain threshold income won’t be able to afford the investment in computers and internet connectivity that makes further learning and development possible. They’ll become trapped by their circumstances. Under proprietary commercial operating systems, which impose a kind of plateau on the cost of computer systems, this may well be true. But GNU/Linux, continuously improving hardware, and a community commitment to bringing technology down to cost instead of just up to spec, has led to a new wave of ultra-low-cost computers, starting with the One Laptop Per Child’s XO. These free-software-based computers will be the first introduction to computing for millions of new users, and that foretells a much freer future. read more here
By: Server Tales
Mark Shuttleworth: ?el éxito de los Asus Eee y One Laptop Per Child? está i
2008-04-22 08:08:00 Mark Shuttleworth ha comunicado públicamente que la percepción pública del software de fuente abierta está cambiando rápidamente, y que en parte esto se debe al éxito que está teniendo en el mercado los Asus Eee y One Laptop Per Child, que está impulsando el conocimiento del código abierto. ?Se ha producido un cambio radical en la ...
More problems with OLPC: Kids ripping One Laptop Per Child apart
2008-04-21 11:27:00 Just last month reports were coming in about the OLPC and how the keyboard was falling apart, however it seems as if the One Laptop Per Child has some more issues. The rubber keyboard in theory should be able to withstand whatever a child can throw at it however; it seems as if the children have been able to rip the rubber-membrane keyboard apart. Executives of OLPC claim that these UMP’s should be able to last at least five years; the One Laptop Per Child is subjected to factory testing until they manage to destroy them. The OLPC also gets field tested by children and it is in these reports that tears have started to show in the keyboard cover. According to reports there have been a number of complaints that the rubber above the letters U and J are splitting, and as a result children as young as 3 and 4 are then able to totally destroy the keyboard. That is not all though, it seems as if the OLPC is suffering from “stuck key” problem. What this means is that one or mo...
By: Product Reviews
One Laptop Per Child Program in the Philippines yet?
2008-02-21 23:55:00 Just surfing the net and I stumbled on this. Not sure if this program has reached the Philippines yet. Any news about it locally? ===============================-================= The mission of the One Laptop per Child association is to develop a low-cost laptop?the “XO Laptop”?to revolutionize how we educate the world’s... [ This is a content summary only. Visit PinoyBlogoSphere.com for full links, other content, and more! ]
Sri Lanka to introduce one laptop per child
2008-02-13 14:53:00 Two-million primary school children are to be provided with US$ 100-worth laptops under a farsighted initiative. Director OLPC Europe, Middle East and Asia Matt Keller, in an interview with The Sunday Times FT, said the World Bank has stepped into fund a pilot project to introduce laptops as an educational tool in nine provinces in the island. OLPC Lanka Foundation has been set up to implement this massive education project aimed at supplying this learning tool into rural children’s hands.
By: Server Tales
One Laptop per Child (OLPC)
2008-02-01 19:49:00 In 2005, Nicholas Negroponte, co-founder and director of MIT's Media Lab started the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) target="blank" foundation. The vision is to give every child on the planet a laptop. The program has received a lot of press recently. Lesley Stahl?s 60 Minutes piece, ?What If Every Child Had a Laptop? conveys Negroponte's inspired dream. Virginia Heffernan in her article "Children?s Crusade" in the New York Times Magazine writes, "The XO was designed, with much fanfare, for One Laptop Per Child, the marvelously hubristic organization created by the M.I.T. new-media guru Nicholas Negroponte to equip two billion children in poor countries with a means to educational salvation. In October, Negroponte presented the laptop at the Vatican to an audience of Roman Catholic schoolteachers and nuns. He stressed that his laptop would not run programs like Word, PowerPoint or Excel. When third-world kids use mainstream office software, he said, ?that breaks my heart most.?...
One Laptop Per Child Project Extends to American Students
2008-01-14 14:23:00 From Yahoo! News: Personal Technology News: The One Laptop Per Child Project (OLPC) plans to launch OLPC America in 2008 to distribute the low-cost laptop computers originally aimed at developing nations to needy students in the United States. The group, which was formed in
Petitie One Laptop per Child
2008-01-13 09:50:00 Parlamentul Romaniei a decis ca proiectul OLPC sa nu fie aplicat in Romania. Motivul ascuns este ca Ministerul Comunicatiei si Tehnologiei Informatiei are parteneriat cu Microsoft si Intel, firme neafiliate proiectului iar parlamentarii nu au chef sa citeasca documentatia sau nu au nimic de castigat de pe urma acestui proiect. Semneaza si tu pentru sustinerea programului ...
By: Blog diverse
One Laptop Per Child - Intel out
2008-01-13 09:47:00 Intel a anuntat ca se va retrage din proiectul OLPC (One Laptop Per Child), care urmareste furnizarea de laptop-uri ieftine, de maximum 100 de dolari, pentru copiii din tarile in curs de dezvoltare. Intel s-a alaturat initiativei OLPC in iulie 2007, iar analistii se asteptau ca gigantul sa lanseze un prototip de laptop in cadrul ...
By: Blog diverse
Intel has pulls out of One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) project
2008-01-06 15:43:00 The One Laptop per Child (OLPC) project is extremely important to the children of the world, but after the board of the not-for-profit project put pressure on the Intel chipmaker to stop supporting ?other efforts in emerging markets?, they went and pulled out altogether. Now what damage could this do to OLPC? I am not sure why ...
By: Product Reviews
El Fundador del proyecto One Laptop Per Child critica a Intel
2008-01-06 00:15:00 Nicolás Negroponte, el principal responsable del proyecto OLPC (One Laptop Per Child) critica severamente a Intel. El proyecto OLPC se propone hacer disponible, en forma barata, tecnología para la educación a los niños en países en desarrollo.Intel tuvo un roce con el proyecto OLPC cuando comenzó a venders sus notebooks Classmate al mismo mercado que apuntaba el OLPC. En Julio del 2007 Intel se unió al OLPC pero éste jueves 3 de Enero decidió salir del grupo citando diferencias filosóficas.Negroponte dice:Estuvieron haciendo un gran daño en el mercado con los países desde el día en que empezamos. Y luego de que hicimos las paces con ellos, hicieron más daño.La notebook fabricada por el OLPC llamada XO usa CPUs de AMD. Intel siendo el principal competidor de AMD intenta disuadir a los países que planean comprar las máquinas XO y que compren Classmates. Intel ya intentó convencer a Perú, el cual ya ordenó más de 200.000 notebooks al OLPC.Vía: Huffingtonpost
By: Tecnoscopio
Intel chose instead to withdraw its support from One Laptop Per Child
2008-01-05 18:11:00 A frail partnership between Intel and the One Laptop Per Child educational computing group was undone last month in part by an Intel saleswoman: She tried to persuade a Peruvian official to drop the country’s commitment to buy a quarter-million of the organization’s laptops in favor of Intel PCs. Intel and the group had a rocky relationship from the start in their short-lived effort to get inexpensive laptops into the hands of the world’s poorest children.But the saleswoman’s tactic was the final straw for Nicholas Negroponte, the former Massachusetts Institute of Technology computer researcher and founder of the nonprofit effort.He demanded that Intel stop what he saw as efforts to undermine the group’s sales, which meant ceasing to sell the rival computer. Intel chose instead to withdraw its support from One Laptop this week. The project has been a lightning rod for controversy largely because the world’s most powerful software and chip making companies — Mic...
Intel Leaving One Laptop Per Child
2008-01-04 22:57:00 Looks like Intel is pulling out of the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) program. The OLPC, a noble endeavor and the brainchild of MIT’s Nicholas Negroponte, promised to provide, just as the name implies, one laptop per child all over the world. Evidently, Mr. Negroponte expected Intel to end its support of non-OLPC ...
By: shyspeak.net
African languages: Localisation and the one laptop per child project
2007-12-16 12:05:00 Posted by sociolingo on December 16, 2007One earlier criticism of the ?one laptop per child? project was its emphasis on English. As the project develops there is now an initiative on localisation and the development of a multilingual keyboard for the XO laptop. Through the wiki there is a call out for translators and developers ...
Carlos Slim compró 250,000 OLPCs (One Laptop Per Child)
2007-12-05 20:07:00 Carlos Slim, el magnate mexicano de las telecomunicaciones (Telmex, Telcel) compró 50,000 OLPCs (One Laptop Per Child), en lo que parece que es sólo el primer pedido de una cantidad totall de 250,000. La computadora portátil OLPC del idioma inglés One Laptop Per Child, es una computadora portátil elaborada con el propósito de proveer a cada ...
One Laptop per Child hits paydirt
2007-12-05 18:01:00 The One Laptop Per Child Foundation of Cambridge is finally starting to receive the type of orders it set out to generate in the first place. The Peruvian government has just signed an order for 260,000 units ? the largest government order to date. The One Laptop Per Child foundation runs a ?give one, get one,? ...
By: The Tech Brief
One Laptop Per Child Doesn't Change the World - PC Magazine
2007-12-04 18:43:00 One Laptop Per Child Doesn't Change the WorldPC Magazine - 1 hour agoDoes anyone but me see the OLPC XO-1 as an insulting "let them eat cake" sort of message to the world's poor? by John C. Dvorak Hands Across America, ...
One Laptop Per Child: Africa?s 1st large scale test of XO (OLPC) laptop
2007-12-04 16:37:00 Recently a member of the BBC visited Nigeria to see how the tests of the XO laptops were going. For those of you that don?t know about the laptop here is a quick summary: The One Laptop per Child Project’s is to give the 3rd world children a chance to have a laptop, the laptop has ...
By: Product Reviews
‘One Laptop Per Child’ Orders Surge
2007-12-03 18:00:00 boston.com: Despite slower-than-expected sales and tough competition from commercial rivals, the One Laptop Per Child Foundation of Cambridge is enjoying a surge of new orders. Nicholas Negroponte, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor who set up the foundation to provide low-cost laptops to poor schoolchildren around the globe, said in an interview yesterday that the government of Peru has signed a contract to purchase 260,000 of the $188 machines. “It was notarized five minutes ago,” he said, adding that the Peruvian order will make it easier for the foundation to sign up more countries to the program. “It’s momentum.” The nonprofit has designed its laptop to eventually cost less than $100 each. It hopes to persuade governments in developing countries to buy millions of the machines and hand them out free of charge as educational tools. | read more | similar articles:One Laptop Per Child Promo Extended Until Year’s EndWindows: The...
By: Thought-Blender
Un laptop pentru fiecare copil
2007-12-03 09:45:00 Fundatia OLPC a primit o comanda de 260,000 pentru laptopurile mici XO Laptops din Peru. Acest program consta in obtinerea cu succes a laptopurilor pentru scoli. In ciuda faptului ca in ultimul timp vanzarile au fost mai scazute, OLPC se bucura acum de o explozie de comenzi noi. Se pare ca la ei se poate, la ...
By: Softmrm Blog
One Laptop Per Child orders surge
2007-12-03 09:36:00 Despite slower-than-expected sales and tough competition from commercial rivals, the One Laptop Per Child Foundation of Cambridge is enjoying a surge of new orders. more stories like thisOne Laptop Per Child Foundation sued by Lagos Analysis Corp. over keyboardLaptop foundation sued over keyboard designDiffering visions, with one goalWith cheap laptops, two computer firms eye profitsLow-cost laptop production started Nicholas Negroponte, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor who set up the foundation to provide low-cost laptops to poor schoolchildren around the globe, said in an interview yesterday that the government of Peru has signed a contract to purchase 260,000 of the $188 machines. "It was notarized five minutes ago," he said, adding that the Peruvian order will make it easier for the foundation to sign up more countries to the program. "It's momentum."Negroponte also said Mexican billiona...
OLPC (One Laptop Per Child): successfully getting laptops to school childre
2007-12-03 08:25:00 You got to love a project that aims to get laptops into the hands of school children around the world, the OLPC (One Laptop Per Child) is that program and they are successfully doing just that. The OLPC Foundation has just received another order which is for 260,000 of the little XO laptops from Peru; add ...
By: Product Reviews
OLPC - One Laptop Per Child
2007-12-02 16:14:00 OLPC - One Laptop Per Child Crossing the digital divide is a great idea and the folks at MIT have come up with the greatest single idea yet to do that. Negroponte and his team set out to build a $100 laptop so that people and especially children all around the world could ...
By: Best Buy Laptops
One Laptop Per Child foundation sued by Nigerian keyboard firm
2007-11-29 12:09:00 It seems that Nigerian keyboard firm Lagos Analysis Corp who makes the XO laptop keyboard is suing the One Laptop Per Child foundation. Lagos has made claims that the foundation has in fact reverse-engineered their software drivers illegally in order to make the OLPC keypad. The Nigerian firm has filed a copyright infringement lawsuit, and they ...
By: Product Reviews
Do we really need one laptop per child?
2007-11-28 18:39:00 One Laptop per Child (OLPC) was started in 2002 by Nicholas Negroponte, a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Its mission is to provide low-cost laptops, known as the XO, to children around the world specially living in third world countries. The machines are planned to cost $100 and have been especially designed for ...
By: Silence
Sharing Means Caring
2007-11-27 07:38:00 "Every Who down in Who-ville liked Christmas a lot...But the Grinch, who lived just north of Who-ville, did NOT!"So just to peel the skinbeater onion a little more and show you that I'm not just a NYPD hating, moviegoing, materialistic, hedonistic, Native American former Marine drummer with major authority issues that can be traced to my Sainted Mother (NO LINK: I wouldn't DARE post about her...She would know--even though she doesn't know about my blog believe me: She. Would. Know.), here is a way I've found to use $400 and your own computer to educate, empower and inspire kids who need it the most, and kickstart your karma for 2008:One Laptop Per Child is a program designed to put a computer in the hands of kids who live in developing countries. OLPC?s mission is to provide a means for learning, self-expression, and exploration to the nearly two billion children of the developing world with little or no access to education.From now through December 31, 2007, OLPC is offering a...
By: skinbeatergreg
One Laptop Per Child Promo Extended Until Year?s End
2007-11-23 18:10:00 chicagotribune.com: CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (AP) ? A promotion in which a customer buying a $188 computer in the U.S. and Canada automatically donates a second one to a child in a developing country was extended until year’s end, organizers said Thursday. The “Give One, Get One” program will now run through Dec. 31, instead of ending on ...
By: Thought-Blender
One Laptop Per Child, XO Laptop
2007-11-16 20:28:00 The One Laptop Per Child initiative with its XO Laptop, is setting out to change the world one portable pc at a time. XO Laptop Till November 26th, the OLPC will give you one laptop, when you send one to a child in a developing country. So in essence they are having a BOGO sale. But participating in this offer ...
Electronic Arts dona SimCity al proyecto One Laptop Per Child
2007-11-12 02:58:00 Electronic Arts presta su colaboración con el proyecto OLPC (One Laptop Per Child) donando la versión original de su prestigioso simulador económico SimCity.Existen diversos estudios que demuestran el enorme valor educativo de los videojuegos. Tanto sea juegos de Estrategia, modelos económicos e incluso varios MMORPG.Personalmente opino que el aporte es valiosísimo y estoy deseoso que esos niños desarrollen experiencia en el manejo apropiado de recursos limitados, toma de decisiones estrategicas y capacidad para liderar.Nada mejor que dar rienda suelta a la naturaleza lúdica de los niños poniendo a su alcance una herramienta que les enseña a la vez que divierte.Fuente: ALT1040Imperdibles en Simuladores:SimCity original - Clásico simulador disponible para jugar gratisManeja recursos naturales en ElectroCityAdministra un imperio económico en Kapilands Entretenimiento Online Electronic Arts OLPC SimCity videogame estrategia Modelo economico donacion laptop Entretenimiento Online Electr...
Starting November 12: OLPC (One Laptop Per Child) give 1 get 1
2007-11-11 19:11:00 Starting tomorrow (November 12th) the OLPC (One Laptop Per Child) project will be starting a new program; it?s called ?Give 1 Get 1?. The program will run in North America for a brief window of time, $399 will get you two XO laptops (one for you and one to empower a child to learn in a ...
By: Product Reviews
One Laptop Per Child , Masi Oka (Nakamura) Heroes
2007-11-11 13:49:00 One Laptop per Child (OLPC) Give One Get One Adica ideea este: cumperi unu la pret de doua dar, al doilea merge la saraci (asa se presupune) ! Cred ca in romania banii ar merge la “cei mai saraci” ...
By: ByREV Blog-u
EA Donates Original SimCity to One Laptop Per Child
2007-11-10 21:14:00 Today Electronic Arts Inc. announced the company will donate the original SimCity™ — the blockbuster 1989 game credited with giving rise to the city-building game genre—to each computer in the One Laptop per Child (OLPC) initiative. OLPC is a not-for-profit humanitarian effort to design, manufacture and distribute inexpensive laptops with the goal of giving every child in the world access to modern education. By gifting SimCity onto each OLPC laptop, EA is providing users with an entertaining way to engage with computers as well as help develop decision-making skills while honing creativity. This is the first time a major video game publisher has gifted a game to the world.OLPC will begin distributing laptops in countries such as Uruguay, Peru, Mexico, Ethiopia, Rwanda, Haiti, Cambodia and India by the end of 2007. The idea to connect SimCity with OLPC came from internet pioneer, activist and OLPC advisor John Gilmore who knew the game’s history and recognized its potential ...
By: Technobuddy
EA donates the original SimCity game to the One Laptop per Child humanitari
2007-11-10 18:32:00 Electronic Arts have announced they will donate the original SimCity ? the blockbuster 1989 game credited with giving rise to the city-building game genre ? to each computer in the One Laptop per Child (OLPC) initiative. OLPC is a not-for-profit humanitarian effort to design, manufacture and distribute inexpensive laptops with the goal of giving every ...
One Laptop per Child and one for?
2007-11-07 08:12:00 You may know it as the “$100 laptop.” But, let’s call it by its lesser-known name, the XO as it never made it down to the $100 price point. The computer, aimed at providing laptops for needy kids by way of the One Laptop per Child project, has been the cause of speculation, ...
By: context
Windows podría ser ejecutado en la laptop de 100 dólares
2007-10-29 12:19:00 Microsoft se encuentra desarrollando una versión ligera de Windows, que podría ser ejecutada en la denominada ?laptop de 100 dólares".La mayor compañía de software del mundo desarrolla una versión especial de Windows XP que será compatible con el ordenador XO, más conocido como ?laptop de 100 dólares". Microsoft explica que se ha invertido una fuerte suma en el proyecto, pero que no hay garantía alguna de que sea viable ejecutar Windows en el limitado hardware de la máquina.El ordenador de 100 dólares (que de hecho tiene un precio de 188 dólares), puede ser operado por el momento solamente en Linux. Según analistas, para Microsoft sería problemático si XO se convierte en un éxito. El proyecto será iniciado el próximo mes y el objetivo es llevar PC portátiles de bajo precio a los estudiantes de países en desarrollo.XO no tiene disco duro y su consumo de electricidad es de 2 Watt, comparado a los 30,4 Watt de un PC portátil normal.Información extraída de: DiarioTi.com
One Laptop Per Child: Final Testing
2007-10-05 22:02:00 The $100 (well, almost) laptop is here.Despite multiple roadblocks, the team behind the One Laptop Per Child initiative is ready to deliver. Fortune's David Kirkpatrick profiles the innovative approach to both product and marketing. - CNN laptop.org
By: L - bird
One Laptop per Child: teurer
2007-09-17 16:11:00 Das 100-Dollar-Laptop wird teuerer - die Kosten für die Fertigung sind weiter gestiegen, sodass das Gerät am Ende etwa 188 Dollar kosten dürfte. So die Aussagen von Vertretern der Nonprofit-Organisation One Laptop per Child. Der längerfristig angestrebte Preis für das Laptop beträgt aber weiterhin 100 Dollar. Für das Gerät liegen bislang 3 Millionen Bestellungen vor. ...
By: taxipluto
$100 laptop for One Laptop Per Child up to $188
2007-09-14 19:30:00 There's no such thing as a free lunch, and apparently there's no such thing as a $100 laptop...currently. It appears that the laptop created by MIT with plans of being distributed by One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) has announced that the current cost of mass production for this little green wonders is now $188. Previously these $100 laptops were being manufactured for $176. As a systems administrator part of my additional duty is to aquire new technology for the company. I've noticed that the cost of any computer, be it Mac or PC, is coming down in price. It's been this way since the late 90's. So how does something start cheap, but costs more over time as the rest of technology becomes cheaper? There's got to be government involvement in order for the prices to keep jumping...today we just found out the US Justice Department spend $4 per meatball at one of their conferences! $4??? For a ball of unidentifiable meat-like substance? Ok, back to the issue at hand! It still isn'...
$100 laptop for One Laptop Per Child up to $188
2007-09-14 19:30:00 There's no such thing as a free lunch, and apparently there's no such thing as a $100 laptop...currently. It appears that the laptop created by MIT with plans of being distributed by One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) has announced that the current cost of mass production for this little green wonders is now $188. Previously these $100 laptops were being manufactured for $176. As a systems administrator part of my additional duty is to aquire new technology for the company. I've noticed that the cost of any computer, be it Mac or PC, is coming down in price. It's been this way since the late 90's. So how does something start cheap, but costs more over time as the rest of technology becomes cheaper? There's got to be government involvement in order for the prices to keep jumping...today we just found out the US Justice Department spend $4 per meatball at one of their conferences! $4??? For a ball of unidentifiable meat-like substance? Ok, back to the issue at hand! It still isn'...
One Laptop Per Child XO Beta-4 Going to Production
2007-07-24 16:20:00 On Monday the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) initiative gave the “thumbs-up” to go ahead and start mass producing the XO laptop. The laptop being made is based on the Beta-4 (B4) design and is priced at $176 each, which the OLPC hopes to have down to the originally planned $100 by sometime next year. ...
By: SlipperyBrick
One Laptop Per Child
2007-07-15 02:44:00 Jul. 14, 2007 Walter Bender, the One Laptop Per Child program's director of software, told DesktopLinux.com on July 13 that he invites Dell Computer founder and CEO Michael Dell to help figure out how to better use 125 million computers that are discarded annually because they are archaic.Bender was responding to statements by Dell, who said earlier this week that he doesn't think that making inexpensive laptops for underprivileged kids is very helpful. The so-called $100 laptops the OLPC is building and distributing "won't be powerful enough to make much of a difference in their lives," Dell said."The issue is not so much what does it cost, but what does it do," Dell said during a question-and-answer session with customers and finalists of the Dell/National Federation of Independent Business Small-Business Excellence Award.According to Dell, inexpensive laptops won't meet the needs of their intended recipients. To illustrate his point, he noted that roughly 125 mi...
By: for bored mindz
OLPC - One Laptop per Child, Project for Poorer, India Interested in its Ri
2007-07-14 17:07:00 OLPC has also created laptop called XO, especially designed (in terms of interface, GUI, software/ hardware) for children of emerging nations who doesn't know anything about Iphone or sophisticated gadgets, their interfaces, than children of high upbringing who hangs around with Ipod or so
By: India Web 2.0
La computadora de 100 dólares quedará en 50 dólares
2007-07-09 12:55:00 La ultra económica computadora One Laptop per Child (OLPC) será aún más barata. La reducción de costos, especialmente de la pantalla, abaratarán considerablemente el precio de venta al público.El objetivo inicial del proyecto, lanzado originalmente por el Instituto Tecnológico de Massachusetts (MIT), era desarrollar una computadora portátil para los más pobres del mundo, a un precio de venta de 100 dólares. Sin embargo, el proyecto se ha desarrollado de manera óptima, con lo que el precio puede ser reducido 50 dólares por unidad a partir del próximo año.Según representantes del MIT, la reducción en el precio estaría motivada principalmente por la incorporación de una pantalla de bajo consumo eléctrico.XO, que es el nombre definitivo dado a la computadora portátil, será lanzada mundialmente en septiembre próximo, y OLPC calcula vender entre 3:05 millones de unidades durante el primer año, escribe la publicación DigiTimes.Información extraída de: DiarioTi.com
One Laptop Per Child: Why not in Canada or the UK?
2007-07-07 12:07:00 The One Laptop Per Child project has been something that we have been watching with great interest at Carson’s Post. The $100 laptop (which actually costs $175 due to the limited production) programme has developed a machine that could be really exciting for education in the developing world. Dan Mclean at the Globe ...
By: Carson's Post
One Laptop Per Child: a demo video
2007-05-30 13:06:00 One of the more amazing projects coming to fruition this year is the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) project. We have commented on this project before here, and will continue to keep track of it. Here is a video of Opera CTO describing the XO laptop: The project is important for several reasons, the first and ...
By: Carson's Post
Politics: Intel tries to cripple ?One Laptop Per Child?
2007-05-21 19:22:00 From CNN: ?Intel?s longtime animosity to the project has taken on new intensity, and that has consequences. Negroponte asserts that in the last couple of weeks, as the final deadline of May 30 approaches for countries to make firm commitments for XOs (ideally in lots of a million at a time), Intel has been methodically going to the expected ...
By: What a Weenie!
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