Mary Lou Jepsen, the XO laptop’s designer and OLPC’s CTO, split from the project a little over a week ago to “commercialize” some of the tech she developed for the project—the display in ...
Even though the XO Laptop’s Sugar-coated OS wasn’t exactly the most vaunted aspect of the attempted laptop-for-all, following Windows XP’s invasion of the project, former OLPC exec Walter Bender’s ...
Aimed at helping educate children in the poorest developing countries, OLPC's G1G1 (Give One Get One) promotion asks Amazon.com customers to buy either an XO laptop for $199, or buy one laptop to keep ...
One Laptop Per Child shows off the first version of its XO laptop, including many features geared toward helping kids learn in their own environment The hardest thing about learning to use the OLPC ...
eSpeaks’ Corey Noles talks with Rob Israch, President of Tipalti, about what it means to lead with Global-First Finance and how companies can build scalable, compliant operations in an increasingly ...
As One Laptop Per Child wraps up commercial sales of its XO laptop, a user thinks keeping the XO available will have great benefits for the nonprofit and its mission As commercial sales of One Laptop ...
Late last year Uruguay landed its first shipment of 100,000 units of the much lauded, sometimes criticised XO laptop from the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) organisation. Buoyed by that success, Walter ...
Five million to come by the end of the year, and 2500 to be sent out by the end of the month, the OLPC 'XO' laptop still costs US $50 more to manufacture than the stated US $100 goal, but draws ever ...
Show me the money! It’s Tuesday’s IT Blogwatch: in which the One Laptop Per Child gang give in, allowing ordinary Joes to buy one. Not to mention the risks of medical treatment abroad… Nancy Gohring ...
Nonprofit organization One Laptop Per Child is shying away from small deployments of XO laptops to focus on large-scale deployments as it restructures to cope with the recession. OLPC is not selling ...
Nonprofit organization One Laptop Per Child on Thursday said it is adding a multitouch screen to the upcoming XO-1.75 laptop and is modifying software to take advantage of the new hardware. The ...