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Negroponte at NetEvents
Blog [These are some pretty raw notes from Negroponte's presentation at NetEvents, Hong Kong, as it happens. Motorola didn't want to do it, but when we did [Negroponte is on the board of Motorola], the stock price went down - analysts penalised us for...
[December 2, 2006, 6:09]
Dell criticises OLPC, Negroponte hits back
Blog Nicholas Negroponte, OLPC founder and chairman, told ZDNet.co.uk at the Paliament and Internet conference in Westminster on 18 October that Dell was "being silly". That's ridiculous," said Negroponte.
[October 31, 2007, 14:06]
Negroponte: 'Software is too fat'
News Nicholas Negroponte, the founder of the One Laptop Per Child project, criticised the software industry on Tuesday for creating ever-more-bloated software, which runs slower despite dramatic improvements in processor speed.
[April 4, 2006, 16:10]
Negroponte: "3G will not see the light of day"
News As if the Prime Minister, Tony Blair, didn't have enough to worry about this week, up pops Professor Nicholas Negroponte, Director of MIT's media lab to say that the auction of the 3G radio spectrum in the Spring was crazy, that 3G would not be...
[September 14, 2000, 7:35]
Negroponte to share vision at Red Hat summit
News The four-day event will feature keynote speeches from company executives such as Red Hat chief executive Matthew Szulik, former MIT guru Nicholas Negroponte, and Eben Moglen, founding director of The Software Freedom Law School.
[May 31, 2006, 11:20]
Negroponte: Windows key to OLPC philosophy
News The OLPC's philosophy of openness is behind its decision to allow Microsoft software on the machines, according to chairman Nicholas Negroponte. Open means open," Negroponte said. According to Negroponte, the XP announcement is the latest...
[October 29, 2007, 8:15]
Negroponte brings wireless meshing to Greek island
News Tourists and locals on the Greek island of Patmos will soon be able to enjoy island-wide Wi-Fi web access courtesy of One Laptop per Child founder Nicholas Negroponte's passion for the web. Today the island plays host to Negroponte who owns a...
[July 25, 2008, 11:06]
OLPC's Negroponte: Intel 'contributed nothing'
News Nicholas Negroponte, the founder of One Laptop per 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 member.
[January 8, 2008, 7:13]
Negroponte: 'Software is too fat'
Talkback simply well said, and absolutely true. New program writers are useless.
[April 4, 2006, 23:43]
Good work Negroponte
Talkback And although Negroponte may be a little sensationalist in his response, fair play to him for spilling the beans on Intel's broken promise to all those poor underprivileged kids. Intel are making a killing with their Core 2 range and are probably...
[January 16, 2008, 23:56]
Negroponte: 'Software is too fat'
Talkback Perhaps old dogs like me remember the words "System Generation. It was a critical task for mainframe's system administrator. In those days, OS components were selected and generated into user-specific OS environment by the user oneself.
[April 5, 2006, 17:11]
OLPC 'Give One, Get One' scheme comes to Europe
News Nicholas Negroponte, founder and chairman of the OLPC project, told ZDNet UK in an email interview on Wednesday that version two of 'Give One, Get One' (G1G1) would enable European users to participate in the scheme.
[November 13, 2008, 11:32]
The $100 laptop - don't get carried away
Leader So when Nicholas Negroponte and his team from MIT says that he can do just this with a $100 laptop designed for every child, it takes an icy soul to be contrarian. What Negroponte is describing, with its small screen, cut-down software and embedded...
[November 17, 2005, 13:20]
In pictures: One Laptop Per Child review
Reviews When Nicholas Negroponte (above, right) of the MIT Media Lab showed off a prototype OLPC (One Laptop Per Child) at NetEvents in Hong Kong, ZDNet UK's Rupert Goodwins was there with his camera. You can read a transcript of Negroponte's talk here.
[December 6, 2006, 9:37]
$100 laptop boss attacks Intel's Classmate PC claims
Blog 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. Intel has its own cheap PC called the Classmate which Negroponte claimed, in an...
[May 21, 2007, 15:17]
$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. In an email sent to ZDNet UK, Negroponte said reports that...
[August 22, 2006, 13:50]
OLPC and Intel bury the hatchet
News After years of squabbling, Intel and Nicholas Negroponte have agreed to put their differences behind them and join forces in bringing PCs to children around the world. Negroponte's One Laptop per Child (OLPC) project is bringing Intel on board as a...
[July 16, 2007, 8:18]
$100 laptop 'will boost desktop Linux'
Talkback "Negroponte related an anecdote about meeting the head of a PC display company who claimed that he could not build the kind of display OLPC needed until he found out that there order would be for 100 million units.
[June 3, 2006, 14:43]
OLPC The Second
Blog Nicholas Negroponte's One Laptop Per Child project has been hitting the headlines for the wrong reasons recently, but that hasn't stopped OLPC from unveiling the successor to its XO notebook. According to Negroponte, the target price for the XO-2...
[May 21, 2008, 10:26]
Why India said no to the $100 laptop
Talkback Can't help feeling this is a bit of a vitriolic attack on Mr Negroponte who at the end of the day is trying to help people - is ZDNet into personal attacks now? Ok, you could accuse the whole project of being some kind of self-promotion exercise...
[July 28, 2006, 10:09]
