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$100 Laptop: Moving From A Technical To A Social Debate.....cont.....
Talkback I think if these $100 laptop kids are able to be part of that developing culture then they have access to the world stage in way that they have never had before. Three = the laptop itself: talks on how it works, issues surrounding distribution...
[November 13, 2006, 19:04]
$100 Laptop Trials Begin Within Weeks
News Reports that trials of the $100 laptop project will kick off in Thailand alone have been quashed by Nicholas Negroponte, founder and chairman of the One Laptop per Child (OLPC) association. He claimed on Monday that field trials will start...
[August 22, 2006, 13:50]
$100 Laptop Takes Shape
News The One Laptop Per Child crusade for low-cost PCs for developing nations is another step closer to the assembly line. The working laptop, he wrote, is "completely self-contained, a real milestone for us".
[May 25, 2006, 9:50]
$100 Laptop Boss Attacks Intel's Classmate PC Claims
Blog It's all fun and games for the One Laptop per Child project. It seems that Chairman Nicholas Negroponte is not happy that Intel is trying to muscle into his organisation's plans to launch a $100 PC for the developing world.
[May 21, 2007, 15:17]
$100 Laptop Project Is 'fundamentally Flawed'
Talkback A device, such as the OLPC's $100 Laptop, specifically built to be used in such environments while still providing standard modern functionality (ruggedized for 'all terrain' usage, friendly, portability, integrated storage, integrated...
[June 23, 2006, 9:20]
'$100 Laptop' Consumer Launch Rumours Denied
News The organisation working on a low-cost laptop for developing-world education has rushed to deny speculation that the machines may become generally available to the public, following news reports earlier this week.
[January 11, 2007, 9:38]
$100 Laptop 'will Boost Desktop Linux'
News The One Laptop per Child (OLPC) project will make Linux as popular on the desktop as it is on the server today, according to Nicholas Negroponte, head of the project and founder of MIT's media lab. The One Laptop per Child project aims to develop a...
[June 2, 2006, 17:10]
'$100 Laptop' Struggling With Costs
News The One Laptop per Child project on Thursday showed off the latest prototype of what's widely known as the $100 laptop for school children in developing nations. Walter Bender, president of software for the Massachusetts-based non-profit OLPC, said...
[November 17, 2006, 8:49]
$100 Laptop Scheme Insists On Open Source
News The organisation behind the creation of a $100 (£57) laptop for the developing world has refused an offer of free software from Apple. We declined because it's not open source," Papert told The Wall Street Journal, adding that the $100 laptop...
[November 15, 2005, 16:00]
$100 Laptop To Be Built In Taiwan
News Taiwan's Quanta, the 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 championed by MIT's Nicholas Any previous doubt that a very-low-cost laptop...
[December 14, 2005, 8:40]
$100 Laptop: Great For The World, Great For Linux
Talkback I would have thought that community based Debian would have been a more natural and approriate choice for the "$100" laptop operating environment.
[February 2, 2006, 21:00]
$100 Laptop: Great For The World, Great For Linux
Talkback The 100$ Linux laptop will do these things, video and games, and it will just work. That's a cool interview! Please make more interviews soon about this awesome project! Intel, Microsoft, Apple, Adobe and all these companies have kept comming with...
[February 2, 2006, 18:31]
$100 Laptop: Great For The World, Great For Linux
News Once it became clear that Nicholas Negroponte, one of the key originators of the One Laptop per Child (OLPC) initiative, was going to insist that the device use open source software, Linux provider Red Hat became the most likely provider of the...
[February 2, 2006, 15:10]
$100 Laptop Project Is 'fundamentally Flawed'
News The One Laptop per Child (OLPC) scheme is based on a fundamental misunderstanding of the history of the IT industry, according to Tony Roberts, chief executive and founder of UK charity Computer Aid International.
[June 20, 2006, 15:05]
$100 Laptop Project Is 'fundamentally Flawed'
Talkback Nicholas Negroponte April 2006 http://news.com.com/Negroponte+Slimmer+Linux+needed+for+100+laptop/2100-7346_3-6057456.html? "The above costs include installation by Computer Aid technicians in London"
[June 27, 2006, 16:34]
$100 Laptop: Moving From A Technical To A Social Debate
Talkback Because the kids treat the laptop as their most valued possession and so take good care of them. 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...
[November 13, 2006, 18:53]
$100 Laptop 'will Boost Desktop Linux'
Talkback Perhaps you could encourage Mr Negroponte to give one laptop to each ZDNet journalist, in order to improve their literacy? "Negroponte related an anecdote about meeting the head of a PC display company who claimed that he could not build the kind...
[June 3, 2006, 14:43]
Part 3!!! $100 Laptop: Moving From A Technical To A Social Debate
Talkback One of the major advantages of the $100 laptop project is one of its major disadvantages: there is no sales, marketing or research team. The documentary producers should also be prepared to continue longitudinal studies on the impact of the laptops...
[November 13, 2006, 19:11]
Gates Mocks $100 Laptop
Talkback The issue at the heart of this article is whether the $100 laptop is adequate for the job it is being marketed and designed for. Perhaps the title of the article invites negative feedback, as it implies that only Bill Gates is dubious about the...
[March 16, 2006, 12:04]
Gates Mocks $100 Laptop
Talkback For a person with no previous experience of a [laptop] computer, anything is better than what you had before. The people who this laptop is targeted at have nothing to compare it to, so it IS the best they will get.
[March 16, 2006, 14:58]
