Despite its original goal to offer the world's poorest children a $100 laptop that ran free, open-source, tinkerable software, One Laptop per Child (OLPC) is adding the Microsoft Windows operating ...

As commercial sales of One Laptop Per Child‘s XO laptop close Monday, a user tracking the nonprofit effort said continued commercial availability of the laptop could benefit OLPC’s nonprofit effort, ...

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 ...

Open-source developers should stop bickering, unite and jointly develop a Windows user interface to make XO laptops more appealing to users, One Laptop Per Child Chairman Nicholas Negroponte has urged ...

Glaskowsky takes his first look at the OLPC laptop and provides his analysis of the machine's physical design as well as some early battery-life benchmark results. Peter N. Glaskowsky is a computer ...

Colombia will become the second country to use the One Laptop Per Child Project’s (OLPC) XO laptops running Microsoft Windows XP in schools after signing an ...

Amazon.com will start selling One Laptop Per Child’s low-cost XO notebook computer as part of the Give One, Get One program the OLPC developed last year, an OLPC official said yesterday. The nonprofit ...

As expected, the OLPC Foundation and Amazon are kicking off the second Give 1, Get 1 program today. Here’s how it works. You can spend $199 to donate an XO Laptop to a child in a developing nation. Or ...

Over the past few months we’ve heard inklings that Microsoft was in talks with the OLPC project to test Windows XP on the low-cost XO laptop. Now the New York Times is reporting that the OLPC ...

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 ...

For the One Laptop Per Child’s (OLPC) XO-3 tablet, thrift means not only a low price but also extreme efficiency harnessing meager sources of power. Just 4 percent of the communities that OLPC reached ...

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 ...