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European IT Forum Roundup
News This year is no different with speakers like Nicholas Negroponte, Steve Ballmer and Jan Steenkamp of OpenTV, all with their own views on how Europe will face up to the next 12 months. Nicholas Negroponte pricked a few bubbles at the European IT...
[September 14, 2000, 14:14]
$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 PC Project Will 'invigorate Linux Desktop Push'
News Red Hat, which formally announced its participation in the scheme on Monday, has been tacitly involved in the project since April 2005 when Nicholas Negroponte, chairman and co-founder of MIT's Media Lab, claimed to be interested in basing the...
[January 31, 2006, 9:30]
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]
$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. Speaking on the final day of Red Hat's annual user...
[June 2, 2006, 17:10]
'$100 Laptop' Consumer Launch Rumours Denied
News One Laptop per Child (OLPC), headed by MIT Labs' Nicholas Negroponte, insisted suggestions that the XO laptop would be sold through eBay, to anyone who was willing to pay for a second machine for third-world countries, were untrue.
[January 11, 2007, 9:38]
Microsoft Officially Teams Up With OLPC
News We view it as a major opportunity for OLPC to expand and expand in a couple of ways," OLPC founder Nicholas Negroponte told ZDNet.co.uk's sister site, CNET News.com, in an interview on Thursday. Negroponte said the ability to run Windows is a must...
[May 16, 2008, 8:34]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog I don't know quite what it is about Professor Nicholas Negroponte that reliably winds me up. Wednesday 31/10/2001 But he does, from the very first time I read his stuff in Wired magazine to the interview he gave to BBC Online earlier this week.
[November 2, 2001, 15:45]
$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]
OLPCs Land At ZDNet Towers
Blog The XO is Nicholas Negroponte's brainchild: a machine that, he and his team hopes, will change the way education is delivered in developing countries. We are now the proud, if temporary, possessors of no fewer than four OLPC XO laptops.
[January 28, 2008, 11:44]
Solar-powered Mesh Project Helps Find New Frog
News Lander told ZDNet UK that such networks were fulfilling a prophecy by MIT Labs founder Nicholas Negroponte, who predicted in 2002 that each Wi-Fi system would end up "like a small router relaying to its nearest neighbours", with messages hopping...
[October 6, 2006, 15:35]
$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]
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]
$100 Laptop To Be Built In Taiwan
News Negroponte, has selected Quanta to serve as its original design manufacturer, or ODM. Any previous doubt that a very-low-cost laptop could be made for education in the developing world has just gone away," Negroponte said in a statement.
[December 14, 2005, 8:40]
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 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]
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 Laptops' Here By Next Year
News MIT Media Lab chair Nicholas Negroponte said at the World Summit on the Information Society in Tunisia that his non-profit organisation was negotiating with manufacturers and would have an initial order placed by February or March.
[November 17, 2005, 8:20]
Intel Denies Disparaging OLPC
News On Monday One Laptop per Child (OLPC) founder Nicholas Negroponte claimed that one of the reasons for tensions resulting in Intel leaving the OLPC board was that the chip giant had "disparaged" OLPC XO laptops to partners and potential buyers.
[January 8, 2008, 13:14]
OLPC Meltdown - Or, The Side-effects Of Working Closely With Nickneg.
Blog Long, anguished essays often result when people find themselves in the position of once having worked with Nicholas Negroponte. Along the way, you'll learn more about Negroponte than you ever wanted to know.
[May 14, 2008, 10:46]
