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The $<endeca_term>100 laptop</endeca_term> could eliminate poverty

The $100 laptop could eliminate poverty

...Hong Kong, the MIT media lab chairman's speech outlined why the $100 laptop could fundamentally change education. I'm going to use the next... Read more

5 December, 2006 by Nicholas Negroponte

...100 laptop to be built in Taiwan

...biggest manufacturer of notebooks in the world, has signed on to the $100 laptop project. The OLPC organisation, which hopes to bring a $100 laptop... Read more

14 December, 2005 by Michael Kanellos

The $100 laptop: A well intentioned waste of time

...promising is that the price will float down." The aim of the $100 laptop initiative is to provide each child in the developing world with... Read more

22 November, 2005 by Cath Everett

...100 laptop scheme insists on open source

...not open source," Papert told The Wall Street Journal, adding that the $100 laptop creators will only choose an operating system where the source code... Read more

15 November, 2005 by Jo Best

OLPC's Negroponte: Intel 'contributed nothing'

...Child (OLPC), has hit out at Intel's decision to leave the $100 laptop project, accusing the chipmaker of contributing nothing while it was a... Read more

8 January, 2008 by Tim Ferguson

...100 laptop 'will boost desktop Linux

The head of the One Laptop per Child project, Nicholas Negroponte, says he must be doing something right if he is upsetting Microsoft and Intel Read more

2 June, 2006 by Andrew Donoghue

...100 Laptop: Great for the world, great for Linux

Mike Evans from Red Hat discusses his company's involvement in the One Laptop per Child project, which aims to develop and distribute a $100 PC to millions around the world Read more

2 February, 2006 by Andrew Donoghue

OLPC laptop goes into mass production

One Laptop per Child will soon be starting up the production line for its ruggedised machine, which it plans to sell eventually for $100 per model Read more

23 July, 2007 by Tom Espiner

In pictures: One Laptop Per Child

Nicholas Negroponte shows off a prototype OLPC (One Laptop Per Child) at NetEvents in Hong Kong. Read more

6 December, 2006 by Rupert Goodwins

'$100 laptops' here by next year

Though its developers are 'not even going to promise they're $100', but it'll be close Read more

17 November, 2005 by Declan McCullagh

Q&A: Nicholas Negroponte, founder, One Laptop Per Child

The latest on the $100 laptop - from Confucius to Cambodia... As head and founder of the One... Read more

5 December, 2006 by Jo Best

...100 laptop advocates fight back

...readers have hit out at a recent CIO Jury which labelled the $100 laptop project "fundamentally flawed" - slamming the Jury's criticism of a project... Read more

2 August, 2006 by Jo Best

India ditches 'potentially harmful' $100 laptop plan

...could harm their creative thinking and analytical abilities. Want more on the $100 laptop? Read silicon.com's Cheat Sheet for the inside track on... Read more

27 July, 2006 by Jo Best

Will the $100 laptop bridge the UK's digital divide

...and Red Hat. But while his idea is certainly noble, will the $100 laptop bridge the digital divide between rich and poor? Clive Longbottom, service... Read more

26 January, 2006 by Dan Ilett

Free Mac OS X spurned by $100 laptop creators

...Bill Gates mulls getting involved... The organisation behind the creation of a $100 laptop for the developing world has refused an offer of free software... Read more

15 November, 2005 by Jo Best

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