Full FeedJohn 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 »
OLPC Give One Get One sales confirmed to begin on November 17
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 »
New pilot program marks first official Windows XP-based XO Laptops
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 »
Amazon XO laptop sales further confirmed; Its all Sugar, no Windows XP models
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 »
OLPC’s ‘Give One Get One’ program to return November 1, courtesy of Amazon
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 based OLPC readying for its September launch
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 »
OLPC XO laptop buyers, today is the last day to activate your free T-Mobile Hotspot account
During the “Give 1 Get 1” sale for the OLPC XO laptop, T-Mobile had been offering a free year of T-Mobile Hotspot access with any G1G1 purchase. Well, it seems that there was a time limit on just when you could activate your account and begin your free year of… Continue Reading »
OLPC XO Laptop now in limited edition red
While the original XO Laptop in green is nice enough looking, there is always something that makes it sound special when its labeled as a limited edition. In this case the latest limited edition is a red model of the XO Laptop. There are reported to only be 100 of… Continue Reading »
Experience what it’s like to download at unlimited speeds from a massive collection of over 800 Terabytes of user uploads. You’ll max out your Internet connection downloading a file in… Continue Reading »
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