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Nigerian company seeks $20m OLPC 'damages'
News Lancor claims that OLPC chair Nicholas Negroponte entered into the EULA, but has not provided any evidence in court to support that claim. Nigerian company Lancor is seeking $20m from the One Laptop per Child charity, alleging patent infringement.
[January 3, 2008, 11:12]
Spychips review
Reviews Some of these scenarios -- such as the refrigerator that automatically reorders when you use up the last Coke -- are recognisable from talks and writings of Nicholas Negroponte, director of the Media Lab at MIT, where the Auto-ID Center -- the...
[June 28, 2006, 11:10]
Jane Wakefield: Waiting for the WAP train
News She has just returned from a big adventure in America, visiting high-tech firms on the East Coast and meeting important people such as Nicholas Negroponte and Tim Berners-Lee. Anyone who has sat on a tube platform waiting for a Circle Line train to...
[March 28, 2000, 12:16]
Would the real Intel please stand up?
Leader There is the Intel that has helped educate more than a million teachers, and the one that has Nick Negroponte spitting feathers over alleged back-stabbing with the One Laptop Per Child project. Virtualisation is the art of hiding the real beneath...
[January 14, 2008, 16:33]
Intel Classmate is just like SCO: to delay the inevitable.
Talkback By promoting an expensive, badly engineered competition with the OLPC, Intel is giving notoriety to Negroponte's team, so my feeling is that the Classmate is a loss leader that backfired. When SCO made outrageous statements in 2003, I knew that it...
[May 31, 2007, 16:01]
$100 laptop: moving from a technical to a social debate
Talkback The laptop itself is an object to which the kids will have great emotional attachment: the head of the project, Nicholas Negroponte, reported an almost 0 breakage rate after 2 years with a pilot project in Cambodia.
[November 13, 2006, 18:53]
That $20 (or $10, or $30) laptop
Blog Few of the multitude of stories have failed to compare and contrast this Indian device with Nicholas Negroponte's troubled OLPC project and its XO laptop (originally planned to cost $100, but still well north of that figure).
[February 4, 2009, 14:28]
One Laptop Per Child order reports 'incorrect'
News OLPC, which is headed by former MIT Media Lab director Nicholas Negroponte, aims to distribute millions of Linux-powered laptops to needy children across the developing world. Reports that Brazil, Nigeria, Argentina and Thailand have each committed...
[August 1, 2006, 17:25]
One Laptop Executive Per Month
Blog There are rumours that Microsoft is going to get strongly involved - not denied by Bender, who says just that he 'doesn't know' about such plans - while Nicholas Negroponte has said that OLPC should become a lot more like the Redmond giant.
[April 22, 2008, 16:46]
Photos: Computer Aid warms Chile with white heat of technology
News Speaking to ZDNet UK recently, Computer Aid chief executive Tony Roberts (pictured) raised concerns about the viability of the One Laptop per Child Project (OLPC) being run by former MIT guru Nicholas Negroponte.
[July 4, 2006, 17:05]
AMD ditches low-cost PC
News Intel has its own low-cost laptop design for students, Microsoft wants to hook people up to the Internet through their cell phones, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Nicholas Negroponte are hawking the One Laptop Per Child initiative.
[November 14, 2006, 8:31]
The developing world needs well-developed ideas
Leader If Bill Gates and $100 laptop progenitor Nick Negroponte were to look at the places without light and listen to those without a voice, a laptop per child would not be first on the list. Bill Gates doesn't like the One Laptop Per Child project...
[March 17, 2006, 14:15]
Intel to invest $1bn in World Ahead programme
News This is the so-called $100 laptop from MIT's Nicholas Negroponte. Intel will spend more than $1bn during the next five years to help bring computers, training and Internet connectivity to emerging nations.
[May 2, 2006, 10:20]
Introducing the OLPC's '$75 laptop'
News The XO-2 will be in a green-and-white case, as is the current XO, seen here in a presentation by OLPC head Nicholas Negroponte in April 2006. Even with the price of what used to be known as the "$100 laptop" still hovering closer to the $200 (£100...
[May 22, 2008, 10:53]
Intel launches Community PC platform
News Previous PCs-for-the-poor projects, such as the Simputer and Nicholas Negroponte's $100 PC, have focused on making it possible for people living in rural areas of the developing world to own computing devices.
[March 31, 2006, 18:00]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog Good thing I stayed off the champagne, or I'd have turned into Nicholas Negroponte. Tuesday 15/01/2002 Help! I'm being held prisoner in the Tower! It's not that bad, however. The Tower in question is the defiantly non-medieval BT Tower, and my...
[January 31, 2002, 14:30]
Qualcomm develops low-cost PC alternative
News Nicholas Negroponte, the co-founder of the Media Lab at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, launched the One Laptop per Child initiative, which is also trying to provide low-cost laptops to children in developing regions.
[November 13, 2008, 14:29]
AMD to sell Transmeta chips in emerging markets
News Currently, there are roughly five different visions for emerging market PCs: the $130 (£70) laptop promoted by Nicholas Negroponte; ruggedised PCs sponsored by Intel and Via; the PIC; Microsoft's FlexGo; and thin clients, sponsored by India's...
[June 6, 2006, 9:35]
Photos: Red Hat boss seeks The Truth
News The leader of the project, Nicholas Negroponte, is due to speak at the show on Friday, but Red Hat's engineering manager for OLPC, Chris Blizzard, was on hand to discuss his company's part in the scheme.
[June 1, 2006, 10:05]
hypocrite and pragmatic
Talkback It shows how difficult for a project to be both social and commercial. As a social project, this change is just hypocrite. As a commercial project, this is just plain pragmatic.
[October 30, 2007, 0:45]
