Full FeedNew OLPC laptop with “double the speed” coming next month
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 »
John Lennon promotes OLPC program
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 »
Patriots QB joins forces with OLPC
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 »
Colombia orders up Windows XP based XO laptops
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 »
Walter Bender leaves OLPC
Walter Bender, Former President of Software and Content for the OLPC project, has stepped down due to his disagreement with founder Nicholas Negroponte, who wants to abandon Linux in favor of Windows XP in order to increase the marketability of the XO laptop. Bender had led the development of XO’s… Continue Reading »
OLPC spin-out working on a $75 laptop
There are so many things going on with the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) project these days. Aside from parting ways with Intel, a new venture established by former OLPC chief technology officer, Mary Lou Jepsen, is now developing a $75 laptop with low-power displays. Pixel Qi, the name of… Continue Reading »
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