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Interview: OLPC's Michail Bletsas Part 2 [of 2]

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2008-01-21 17:00:00 by Brian Heater in Gearlog
OLPC's Carla Gomez Monroy unpacking XO laptops donated through the Give One Get One program in Mongolia In spite of the initial nearly-universal acclaim of the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) project, critics were quick to point out what they perceived as flaws in the organization the moment that the plan became a reality OLPC has seemed plagued by...
 
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OLPC Laptops to Support Microsoft Windows

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2008-05-16 15:15:48 by Chloe Albanesius in Gearlog
...OLPC) organization's low-cost XO laptops will now be available with Microsoft Windows The intention is to create a version of the XO laptop that provides the ability to host both Windows and Linux operating systems, giving users the ability to run either on the XO laptop," according to Microsoft Today's announcement, coupled with future plans...
 
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Portugal Orders 500,000 Low-cost Intel Laptops, OLPC 'Delighted'

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2008-07-31 12:56:23 by Brian X. Chen in Gadget Lab
...OLPC) overall total of 622,000 laptops sold to date. Nonprofit OLPC's goal since 2005 has been to produce a $100 notebook to provide poorer countries with education; its current offering, the XO, costs about $188 Though it would appear Intel has "won" against OLPC, OLPC President Chuck Kane stressed that competition is irrelevant to his...
 
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OLPC Slaps Back at Intel: "You Have No Heart and Don't Care About the Children" [Bitch Fight]

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2008-01-04 13:25:25 by HASH0x89f73e4 in Gizmodo
...OLPC, citing founder Nicholas Negroponte's serious jealousy issues with other low-cost computers stealing XO's thunder in more ways than one. Today, OLPC slaps back, claws out: "We're totally better off without you since it was all for show and you never really loved us (or the kids) in the first place OLPC prez Walter Bender said that...
 
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Sixty-Six OLPC XO Laptops Stolen in Peruvian Town

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2008-06-17 19:23:02 by Jose Fermoso in Gadget Lab
...OLPC According to a report from the outskirts of Huancayo, Peru, three armed robbers stole sixty-six OLPC XO computers in the middle of the night, adding another setback to the OLPC project. The laptops were being stored at a public school in a poor neighborhood (with two security guards on watch) and hadn't been delivered to the kids yet....
 
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Negroponte says he'd welcome Intel back to OLPC

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2008-01-09 15:29:00 by Donald Melanson in Engadget
...OLPC head Nicholas Negroponte is extending an olive branch of sorts to Intel as well, despite the all-out lambasting of the company he doled out only yesterday. According to Infoworld, Negroponte calls what happened with Intel "very unfortunate" and says that he hopes "there's a way of rebuilding it in the future because there's no interest...
 
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Interview: OLPC's Michail Bletsas Part 1 [of 2]

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2008-01-17 17:11:14 by Brian Heater in Gearlog
...OLPC) initiative was first announced, the project was nearly universally lauded by the tech press. OLPC was born with a truly noble intention: to put laptops in the hands of children in developing nations who previously had no access to such technologies, the 21st-century equivalent of the "Give a man a fish..." adage OLPC made its flagship...
 
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OLPC Is F'd: Defected XO Laptop Designer Plans New $75 Laptop [OLPWND]

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2008-01-10 15:31:10 by matt buchanan in Gizmodo
...OLPC's CTO, split from the project a little over a week ago to "commercialize" some of the tech she developed for the projectthe display in particularthrough a for-profit venture, Pixel-Qi. Probable result: a new generation of OLPC competitors from commercial outfits . But it gets better! It's come out Pixel-Qi's aiming to completely undercut...
 
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OLPC America to Help Kids Back Home [Olpc]

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2008-01-13 21:00:00 by posted by Pantha in
...OLPC is all set to launch an American branch, called OLPC America, which aims to help kids from low-income families in the US. The new arm of OLPC has already acquired a director and chairman, and their head office is likely to be situated in Washington D.C Negroponte hopes that this will increase the sphere of influence of the OLPC, whilst...
 
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