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Progress on tablet computer for developing nations
January 11, 2011Everybody is trying to grab a piece of the tablet action at the gadget geekfest known as the Consumer Electronics Show. Among them, the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) project, whose mission is to bring low-powered, low-cost devices to the developing world...
One Laptop Per Child project to stimulate demand in countries hesitant to join program
September 24, 2007The laptop project will sell the rugged little computers to U.S. residents and Canadians for $400 (284.72 EUR) each, with the profit going toward a machine for a poor country. The One Laptop Per Child project expects that its "...
Children on OLPC laptop watching porn
July 23, 2007One thing is sure. Watching pornography was not a aim when the computer companies wanted to create this laptop. This project wanted to give to kids the possibility to know the world through this technology. But in the end, the kids got caught up looking...
Intel get criticizes by OLPC founder
May 23, 2007The "One Laptop Per Child" founder Nicholas Negroponte, accused chip maker Intel of undermining the OLPC by selling its own cut-price laptop, the Classmate. Also, Negroponte said that this is a way of Intel to push off the project out of the...
No Windows for the OLPC Project
May 05, 2007Since last year when was launched the idea of a $100 laptop, most big companies in producing technology involve themselves in this project. It passed some time to produce this laptop and to fix the price of $175. Now there is more information about...
- April 27, 2007
On Thursday The One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) group announced that it had raised the price for its hundred-dollar laptop to US$175. "We are at the most critical stage of OLPC's life," said OLPC founder Nicholas Negroponte . "A year and...
One Million Laptop Orders for Needy Children
February 16, 2007Quanta Computer Inc., the world's largest contract laptop PC manufacturer, has confirmed orders for one million notebook PCs for the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) project. Quanta is going to manufacture the OLPC laptop, and mass production is the key...
100$ laptop criticized by giants
January 16, 2007Moldova.ORG -- Last week there was rumours that the 100$ laptop could be sold through eBay. Well, today this speculations has been dismissed. The One Laptop Per Child initiative, a project from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, has the purpose...
- January 11, 2007
Moldova.ORG -- Developed by One Laptop Per Child (OLPC), the laptop computer XO, which looks like a toy, is designed to survive and thrive in a rugged, power-sparse environment. The final industrial prototype of the XO was demonstrated at the International...