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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A forthcoming version of the OLPC's XO laptop could have the ability to boot both Linux and Windows, according to the OLPC's founder. Tom Krazit writes about the ever-expanding world of Google, as the ...

The One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) association plans to launch the upcoming second generation of its low-cost XO laptop in the first quarter of 2010, according to an official from the group. The XO-2, an ...

Not sure about you, but when I first saw a picture of the XO – the end result of the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) initiative, my mind immediately associated it with a kid’s toy. Like many of those ...