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  • OLPC sets roadmap for big bang in 2012: Will it remain relevant?

    The One Laptop per Child (OLPC) outlined its future roadmap, including plans for the XO 3.0, a device "well below $100" and utilizes a design that mimics a piece of paper. The aim of the XO 3.0 is...

    Blog posts | December 23, 2009 2:36am PST

  • What's next for OLPC?

    So where exactly is OLPC headed now that they are cutting staff, cutting salaries, and turning over Sugar development to the community? Negroponte tells us This restructuring is also the result...

    Blog posts | January 13, 2009 5:27am PST

  • Did the big boys really kill OLPC?

    The UK's Timesonline is running a story today showing us that, despite internal strife, questionable morals and ideals, and now, the inclusion of Windows XP on a computer that was supposed to...

    Blog posts | August 11, 2008 11:32am PDT

  • Negroponte's big lie

    Nicholas Negroponte is working nothing less than a fraud on international governments by washing his hands of support, deployment and maintenance issues. Those costs and tasks are shifted back...

    Blog posts | May 20, 2008 1:05pm PDT

  • Will Microsoft kill Linux on ULPCs?

    Obviously, Microsoft has a significant interest in making sure that users of the new breed of netbooks and MIDs hitting the market don't get too comfortable using Linux. Many manufacturers have...

    Blog posts | May 11, 2008 8:42pm PDT

  • With Peru sale, is OLPC on the right track?

    Things are looking up for One Laptop Per Child. After a boffo lauch to the Give 1 Get 1 program, OLPC has landed an order from Peru for 260,000 units of the XO laptop, The Boston Globe reports....

    Blog posts | December 3, 2007 1:20pm PST

  • Negroponte's laptop finally in production

    Those $100 $200 laptops from Nick Negroponte are finally rolling off the production line at Quanta, the Taiwanese manufacturer of One Laptop Per Child's breakthrough XO laptops. OLPC says Quanta...

    Blog posts | November 7, 2007 4:40pm PST

  • What are students really losing without technology?

    Not much, but there might be some good reasons around the corner to get it in the classroom wherever you can.

    Blog posts | January 17, 2007 8:11pm PST

  • CNET News.com reporter roundtable

    Gates' comments about the $100 PC project at MIT gets a strong reaction from reporters and editors Michael Kanellos, Mike Yamamoto, Tom Krazit and Mike Ricciuti.

    Videos | March 18, 2006 12:23am PST

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  • MIT Media Lab hires college dropout as director: Beyond Negroponte

    Occasionally, college dropouts do fairly well for themselves. Will the new head of MIT's Media Lab continue his track record of successes in cutting edge organizations?

    Blog posts | April 27, 2011 10:01pm PDT

  • Negroponte: Turn tablets into a 'constructionist medium'

    Nicholas Negroponte touts the importance of tablets at Mobilize 2010 in San Francisco. The One Laptop Per Child founder says physical books are too expensive, take up too much space, and are hard...

    Videos | September 30, 2010 2:02pm PDT

  • OLPC's Negroponte: A new "constructionist" medium needed for tablets

    "There's an interesting point in history for us. All we have to do is threaten to build the tablet and that may be enough," said One Laptop Per Child founder Nicholas Negroponte.

    Blog posts | September 30, 2010 11:46am PDT

  • One Laptop Per Child - Android, meet Dr. Negroponte

    The OLPC XO-3, because it will be based on an existing, working reference design and the Android OS just might succeed where other OLPC efforts have not.

    Blog posts | May 29, 2010 10:54pm PDT

  • OLPC sets roadmap for big bang in 2012: Will it remain relevant?

    The One Laptop per Child (OLPC) outlined its future roadmap, including plans for the XO 3.0, a device "well below $100" and utilizes a design that mimics a piece of paper. The aim of the XO 3.0 is...

    Blog posts | December 23, 2009 2:36am PST

  • OLPC to laptop makers: Use our design

    At the TED 2009 conference, Nicholas Negroponte says that OLPC's open-source hardware design will result 5 to 6 million new machines every month within three years.

    News items | February 9, 2009 5:28am PST

  • What's next for OLPC?

    So where exactly is OLPC headed now that they are cutting staff, cutting salaries, and turning over Sugar development to the community? Negroponte tells us This restructuring is also the result...

    Blog posts | January 13, 2009 5:27am PST

  • Did the big boys really kill OLPC?

    The UK's Timesonline is running a story today showing us that, despite internal strife, questionable morals and ideals, and now, the inclusion of Windows XP on a computer that was supposed to...

    Blog posts | August 11, 2008 11:32am PDT

  • Negroponte shows off amazing XO2 design - but will OLPC survive?

    OK, so this does look cool: OLPC's XO2 is a touchscreen-only book-like device that serves as ebook reader, media player, computer and (presumably) game machine. Nicholas Negroponte unveiled the...

    Blog posts | May 21, 2008 11:06am PDT

  • Negroponte's big lie

    Nicholas Negroponte is working nothing less than a fraud on international governments by washing his hands of support, deployment and maintenance issues. Those costs and tasks are shifted back...

    Blog posts | May 20, 2008 1:05pm PDT

  • Who will win open source professor cage match?

    Both sides are now re-adjusting their priorities. Negroponte says his aim is a mass market for low-cost hardware. Bender says it's about creating a new paradigm for education.

    Blog posts | May 19, 2008 6:37am PDT

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