One Laptop Per Child
One Velociraptor Per Child [Olpc]
I know I'd want a velociraptor more than a funny-lookin' little computer. Other things per child we'd like to give kids in developing countries: •One Game Boy Per Child •One Pizza Per Child ....... read more
Sat,
08 Nov 2008
Amazon to Sell OLPC in November, Including Dual-Boot XP Model [Olpc]
From November you'll be able to buy the OLPC in its classic "buy one for the price of two" offer from Amazon, which should be a smoother way of distributing the device than when the OLPC was originall ....... read more
Fri,
05 Sep 2008
OLPC Origin: Bittersweet Success and Future of the XO Laptop [Olpc Secret Origins]
When I met with Nicholas Negroponte not long ago, he laughed at the coverage he'd received through the past few years, including our own portrayal of Intel chairman Craig Barrett and him as Beavis and ....... read more
Thu,
28 Aug 2008
OLPC Origins: US and Taiwan's Hardware Lovechild [Olpc Secret Origins]
In November of 2005, Nicholas Negroponte and his 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 ....... read more
Wed,
27 Aug 2008
Secret Origin of the OLPC: Genius, Hubris and the Birth of the Netbook [Olpc]
From the moment Nicholas Negroponte showed off his $100 laptop concept at the Davos world economic summit in January 2005, it was as if the tech world's supermoguls were glowering down on him in judgm ....... read more
Tue,
26 Aug 2008
Mystery Tablet Shown at Intel Event, Either the Classmate 3 or a Quad Core Speak & Spell [Classified Intel]
At the end of an otherwise tepid presentation at the Intel Developer Forum today, Dadi Perimutter, head of Intel's Mobility Group, dropped a bomb (via PowerPoint) on his audience: a mysterious tablet ....... read more
Tue,
19 Aug 2008
Mystery Tablet Shown at Intel Event, Either the Classmate 3 or a Quad-Core Speak & Spell [Classified Intel]
At the end of an otherwise tepid presentation at the Intel Developer Forum today, Dadi Perimutter, head of Intel's Mobility Group, dropped a bomb (via PowerPoint) on his audience: a mysterious tablet ....... read more
Tue,
19 Aug 2008
First Footage: Same OLPC XO Boots Both Sugar and Windows XP [Olpc]
This is the first footage of the same XO OLPC doing a dual-boot of Sugar Linux and Windows XP—something skeptics have said wasn't going to happen. Soon, XOs will ship with both Sugar and XP for ....... read more
Mon,
23 Jun 2008