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OLPC Origins: US and Taiwan's Hardware Lovechild [Olpc Secret Origins]

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2008-08-27 12:30:00 by Wilson Rothman in Gizmodo
...OLPC CTO Mary Lou Jepsen traveled to Tunisia for the UN-sponsored World Summit on the Information Society, where they were able to present a "working" $100 laptop concept to Kofi Annan, UN secretary general. No longer did the machine rely on that pop-up rear-projection display; it was smaller, made of green plastic, and had a crank for the...
 
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OLPC Origin: Bittersweet Success and Future of the XO Laptop [Olpc Secret Origins]

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2008-08-28 14:40:00 by Wilson Rothman in Gizmodo
...OLPC project. Nearly every one of the original staff had abandoned the project by 2008, often in disgust. But Negroponte remains stalwart: "My elephant skin is the thickness of steel," he told me. Perhaps his resistance to criticism has been one of the projects fatal flaws Although the project seemed threatened in early 2006 from all sides...
 
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Secret Origin of the OLPC: Genius, Hubris and the Birth of the Netbook [Olpc]

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2008-08-26 12:00:00 by Wilson Rothman in Gizmodo
...OLPC will continue to influence the hardware you buy, even if you never score an actual XO Negropontegenerally Nicholas, occasionally Nickis a man who is used to coming up with ideas that people laugh at, only to prove them wrong later. He established the not-for-profit One Laptop Per Child organization after years of exploring the more...
 
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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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