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Negroponte predicted Microsoft ARM move

...to support ARM-based system-on-a-chip architectures was predicted by One Laptop per Child head Nicholas Negroponte almost two years ago. Negroponte told... Read more

6 January, 2011
XO - The Learning Revolution 1.0

XO - The Learning Revolution 1.0

This application is a library of advocacy videos for the One Laptop per Child Foundation. One Laptop per Child's mission is to... Read more

26 August, 2010
The $100 laptop could eliminate poverty

The $100 laptop could eliminate poverty

...only alternative is to leverage the children themselves and that's what One Laptop Per Child is. It's how can you give the child... Read more

5 December, 2006 by Nicholas Negroponte

Marvell backs Android-based OLPC XO-3 tablet

...After the OLPC XO-1 laptop, the One Laptop Per Child foundation is setting in motion plans to create a... Read more

28 May, 2010 by Donald Bell

OLPC laptop goes into mass production

...The One Laptop per Child organisation has announced that its ruggedised laptop, the XO... Read more

23 July, 2007 by Tom Espiner

Two ways to bring PCs to emerging nations

...effort to bring computers to emerging nations, the non-profit trade organisation One Laptop per Child has linked up with some of the world's... Read more

28 February, 2007 by Michael Kanellos

'$100 laptop' struggling with costs

The One Laptop per Child project on Thursday showed off the latest prototype of... Read more

17 November, 2006 by Stefanie Olsen
OLPC to revive 'Give One, Get One' scheme in US

OLPC to revive 'Give One, Get One' scheme in US

From Monday in the US, the One Laptop per Child project's XO laptop will be available through the... Read more

12 November, 2008 by Erica Ogg

Microsoft quashes rumours of dual-boot XO laptop

...to develop a dual-boot iteration of Windows XP to run on One Laptop per Child XO machines, and instead is developing a version of... Read more

11 January, 2008 by Tom Espiner
'$100 laptop' consumer launch rumours denied

'$100 laptop' consumer launch rumours denied

...become generally available to the public, following news reports earlier this week. One Laptop per Child (OLPC), headed by MIT Labs' Nicholas Negroponte, insisted suggestions... Read more

11 January, 2007 by David Meyer

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

...100 laptop - from Confucius to Cambodia... As head and founder of the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) project, Nicholas Negroponte is aiming to bridge the... Read more

5 December, 2006 by Jo Best

Colonel Gaddafi buys 1.2 million cheap laptops

One Laptop Per Child heads for North Africa... Libya will reportedly be dishing... Read more

12 October, 2006 by Jo Best

Brazilian kids get first $100 laptops

...device on Friday, which was presented to him by head of the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) foundation, Nicholas Negroponte. Silva is quoted in the... Read more

27 November, 2006 by Jo Best

Intel working on 'back to school' laptop

'Kid-proof' PC to hit UK playgrounds? Read more

5 March, 2007 by Gemma Simpson

In pictures: One Laptop Per Child

...founder of MIT Media Labs, Wired Magazine and chief executive of the One Laptop Per Child project — or shape-changing alien space cat? You decide... Read more

6 December, 2006 by Rupert Goodwins

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