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XO Wave
Downloads XO Wave has a lot of features useful to people working with audio and video: Red Book CD Mastering: CD Mastering is easy, just mark your tracks, create a master and burn! Edit while XO Wave works: XO Wave lets you work on your session while it...
[January 30, 2008, 7:00]
XO available
Talkback TFA mentions "Production XO laptops (above, left) became available in November 2007". Are they still available? I'd love to get one for my kid but onl heard about give-one-get-one the day after it ended.
[March 3, 2008, 21:51]
OLPC XO review
Reviews The OLPC XO looks unlike any other notebook externally; inside, it's a low-spec unit based around AMD's 433MHz Geode LX700, designed for extremely low power consumption. The OLPC XO's front end is called Sugar: this is the Home screen, with two...
[March 11, 2008, 15:50]
Microsoft quashes rumours of dual-boot XO laptop
News Software giant Microsoft has said it rejected plans 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 XP specifically for the XO.
[January 11, 2008, 13:04]
Furniture Retailer Improves Quality of Service With XO MPLS IP-VPN Service
White Papers Garber deployed XO for its solution and implemented MPLS IP-VPN which connected 13 J.D. J.D. Garber Furniture operates home furnishing stores under the brand names of Lane Home Furnishings and D&D Home Furnishings in the tri-state area of...
[July 11, 2008, 1:02]
OLPC to make XO laptop commercially available
News The XO laptop, designed for use as an educational tool in developing countries, will be available under a scheme called "Give1 Get 1". Starting 12 November, One Laptop per Child will be offering a Give 1 Get 1 programme for a brief window of time...
[September 24, 2007, 17:17]
Windows on XO laptops
Talkback Redmond will not stand still when someone tries to rub their nose in the dirt. But, it is hard to understand how they can strip down XP to run on this small machine. More memory requirements, more storage space, looks like they would have used CE.
[October 26, 2007, 13:58]
XO Laptop to public
Talkback What better way than to sell some to the public to get some funds to off set the 'free' ones to children in the third world countries? PSION sold a solid state computer years ago the MC400, not every one wants a power hungry PC some times you just...
[July 23, 2007, 0:43]
OLPCs land at ZDNet Towers
Blog We are now the proud, if temporary, possessors of no fewer than four OLPC XO laptops. 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.
[January 28, 2008, 11:44]
Microsoft officially teams up with OLPC
News The One Laptop Per Child project and Microsoft jointly announced on Thursday that the XO laptop will be available in both Linux and Windows varieties. The companies plan to sell a Windows-powered XO in five or six countries starting next month...
[May 16, 2008, 8:34]
OLPC laptop drops AMD for Via
News The One Laptop per Child project's XO laptop will switch to a Via processor as part of a general hardware refresh. Generation 1.5 of the XO machine will have the same industrial design as the original model, but will use a Via C7-M processor, John...
[April 20, 2009, 13:26]
Peru first to trial OLPC laptops with Windows
News Microsoft and the One Laptop per Child project announced on Monday that Peru will be the first country to try out XO laptops running Microsoft Windows as part of a nine-month pilot programme. Microsoft has been working for some time to port Windows...
[September 16, 2008, 11:30]
OLPC to revive 'Give One, Get One' scheme in US
News From Monday in the US, the One Laptop per Child project's XO laptop will be available through the 'Give One, Get One' programme once more, this time facilitated by Amazon.com. For $400 [£263], the not-for-profit low-cost-laptop project will send...
[November 12, 2008, 14:31]
Colombia to trial OLPC Windows laptop
News Microsoft has announced that Colombia will be the second country to pilot the use of One Laptop per Child's XO laptop in conjunction with Windows XP. Microsoft announced in September that Peru was the first country to sign up for the Windows-on-XO...
[November 12, 2008, 15:10]
Meeting airs anger against VeriSign
News David Schairer, vice president of broadband provider XO Communications, is frustrated by VeriSign's decision to redirect Web surfers who mistype domain names to its own advertising-based Web site. At an unprecedented public meeting on Tuesday to...
[October 8, 2003, 14:35]
OLPC laptop gets a Windows makeover
News On the outside, the Windows version of the XO laptop looks just like the Linux model. Microsoft has managed to slim down the OS enough to boot up off a 2GB flash memory card and has written drivers for a number of the XO laptop's unique features...
[October 27, 2008, 7:59]
OLPC laptop goes into mass production
News The One Laptop per Child organisation has announced that its ruggedised laptop, the XO, is going into mass production. The XO laptop, which OLPC plans to sell eventually for $100 (£49) per machine, is designed to improve the educational...
[July 23, 2007, 18:08]
Australia set to join OLPC project
News Australia is set to get its very own OLPC arm, to deliver XO laptops to schoolchildren across the country. Seventy XO laptops were also given out at the Linux conference last week but Waugh said the giveaway was a linux.conf.au initiative...
[February 5, 2008, 7:14]
Introducing the OLPC's '$75 laptop'
News Even with the price of what used to be known as the "$100 laptop" still hovering closer to the $200 (£100) mark, the organisation behind the XO laptop design is at work on a next-generation device with an even lower target price: $75.
[May 22, 2008, 10:53]
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. The XO-2's standout features are its small size (about...
[May 21, 2008, 10:26]
