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One Laptop Per Child--Version 2.0. ByAndy Greenberg, Former Staff. Covering the worlds of data security, privacy and hacker culture. May 20, 2008, 03:05pm EDT Jul 12, 2012, 06:13pm EDT.
The $100 laptop project for children in emerging nations is headed toward the finish line. The One Laptop per Child (OLPC) non-profit organization Monday announced its final beta version for the ...
One Laptop Per Child Opens Windows. By Scott Nichols. Oct 24, 2008 8:57 am PDT. Photograph: ... The 8-year-old daughter of a Cnet editor tested both versions of the XO laptop.
The $100 OLPC laptop was supposed to revolutionize education and close the digital divide. But in just a few years it was recognized as a failure, a symbol of tech industry hubris, a one-size-fits ...
(Fortune) -- Microsoft and the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) initiative announced Thursday that the Windows operating system would soon be available on the so-called XO, also known as the "$100 laptop." ...
One Laptop per Child (OLPC) is working on a new version of its XO laptop. The XO-2 will incorporate an enhanced touch screen and remain affordable for volume purchase by developing nations. XO ...
Despite its nickname, the OLPC’s lime-green XO laptop actually costs $175. The first version of the machine runs on Advanced Micro Devices’s 433MHz Geode LX-700, an x86-architecture chip that ...
After exclusively selling the OLPC XO to schools and governments around the world, the laptop was eventually made available to the public as part of a buy one-give one program for $400, or about ...
Designed by Yves Behar, the XO3 is a totally different 21st-Century beast compared to the classic notebook design of the original XO: It’s a super-skinny plastic tablet/slate PC.Suited for its ...
A first look at OLPC’s XO 3.0 tablet for children of the developing world. A first look at OLPC’s XO 3.0 tablet for children of the developing world. There are going to be hundreds of tablets ...
According to the BBC - following up on a report by AP - the first PCs for the $100 One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) project could be in the hands of third-world users by July. However, you can easily ...
Discussions are under way to put an Intel microprocessor inside a version of the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) project's "$100 laptop" for children in developing countries, according to ...