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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

One Laptop per Child (OLPC), a non-profit organization with the mission to help eradicate world poverty by providing every child access to knowledge and modern forms of education, even if that child ...

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 ...

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 ...

While the OLPC XO Laptop is certainly a low power machine, that’s just not good enough if you’re in an environment where there’s sometimes no power to be had. If you can’t plug in your computer to ...

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 ...