The founder of the ambitious "$100 laptop" project, which plans to give inexpensive computers to schoolchildren in developing countries, revealed Thursday the machine now costs $175 US and will be ...

In recent months many leaders of education in Nepal and elsewhere have been attracted by the rhetoric about One Laptop Per Child (OLPC). While computers in schools are a good idea, an over $100 ...

The Children’s Machine 1 (CM1), is the new monicker of the first machine from the One Laptop Per Child project spearheaded by MIT. It’s no longer $100, as the price tag’s climbed 40% to $140. The ...

What did Nicholas Negroponte expect? His One Laptop Per Child initiative, launched in 2005, had all the right ideals but the wrong strategy. The idea of building a $100 laptop for children in ...

One Laptop Per Child, a charity that provides inexpensive computers to children in developing countries, has been sued by a company whose founder argues that the nonprofit group stole his designs for ...

One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) has taken another step forward in its mission to make low-cost notebooks available to children in developing nations, unveiling a UI (user interface) purpose-built for the ...

Framework says Laptop 12 is the “purest manifestation” of company vision It will come in a choice of five colors and be hard ...

Non-profit OLPC's XO notebook has jumped from its original estimated price of $100 and now faces pricing competition from commercial laptops As component prices drop, the aggressive pricing of ...

If you’re one of the many people itching to try out a certain funny-looking green portable computer, your moment is at hand. The One Laptop per Child project’s OLPC XO device went on sale to the ...