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Despite not hearing much in terms of the OLPC project recently it seems that they are still seeing their fair share of success. According to Walter Bender they have topped one million downloads on Sugar Labs. “I had been meaning to mention that already several weeks ago we exceeded one-million… Continue Reading »

The One Laptop Per Child program is trying to live up to its name.  OLPC has a deal with Yoko Ono to use John Lennon’s likeness in order to promote the purchase of these laptops for every child.  There is a new commercial that OLPC will run using a John… Continue Reading »

New England Patriots QB Tom Brady has announced he is teaming up with the One Laptop Per Child project and buying 1,500 of them to send to children in Uganda.  They will be shipped to his sister Nancy who works with the Infectious Diseases Institute there.  Continued after the break. Continue Reading »

Just a few months back, we saw Peru become the first country in the world to begin a Windows XP based XO laptop pilot program, and now Columbia will be joining them.  The announcement, which comes courtesy of Microsoft, is calling for the program to initially take place in Quetame… Continue Reading »

We talk a lot about how technology makes things better.  We look to computers and tell ourselves how much better off we are, how much more efficient we are, how advanced we are.  The OLPC (One Laptop Per Child) Give 1 Get 1 program is back again after selling out… Continue Reading »

Despite some earlier reports that Amazon would begin sales of the next XO laptop Give One Get One program on November 1, it looks like that date was off by a few weeks.  The latest information, along with confirmation from the OLPC foundation is that sales will begin on November… Continue Reading »

The One Laptop per Child Association (OLPC), Microsoft, and Peru’s Education Minister José Antonio Chang Escobedo have recently announced that Peru will be the first in the world to get Windows XP-based XO Laptops. The new laptops will be part of a nine-month pilot that is intended to “integrate educational… Continue Reading »

After the recent popularity of the initial news that the ‘Give One Get One’ program would be returning this November with sales being handled through Amazon, the OLPC’s Product Manager Kim Quirk posted a message on wiki.laptop.org further confirming the news, but also added an extra detail that will possibly… Continue Reading »

It turns out the earlier reports were indeed accurate, and the ‘Give One Get One’ program will be making a return later this year, and it will be handled by none other than Amazon.com. This information comes courtesy of Matt Keller who is the director of Europe, Middle East and… Continue Reading »

Windows XP coming to the OLPC XO Laptop certainly comes as little surprise, its been hinted at, and even shown off in the past, but what does come as news is that it should be available by this September. Microsoft has recently released a version of Windows XP to manufacturing… Continue Reading »