Red Hat teams with RIT to help deaf children
bizjournals.com: Raleigh-based Red Hat is sponsoring open source workshops at the Rochester Institute of Technology this summer that have the potential of improving technology for deaf and hard of...
View ArticleOLPC Will Remain a Non-Profit
blog.laptop.org: The story in today’s Boston Business Journal about One Laptop per Child requires certain clarification:read more
View ArticleInternet in a box
Internet in a boxOLPC Programs are a $25 Billion Dollar Global Economyread more
View ArticleWorld's largest single-school XO laptop solar power deployment
olpcnews.com: We successfully carried out our first solar photovoltaic school deployment in Haiti, last week! The EFACAP school in Lascahobas, Haiti now has 2.4KW of solar pv capability to charge 500...
View ArticleNew OLPC Idea: Literally Throw Them at Children from Helicopters
pcmag.com: Nicholas Negroponte plans to airdrop OLPC tablets to remote villages to teach the children within them to read, he told the audience at the Open Mobile Summit on Wednesday.Also: Ugliest...
View ArticleOLPC XO-3 Tablet To Be Shown At CES
OLPC XO-3 Tablet To Be Shown At CESOLPC outs XO 3.0 tablet at last, will make its debut at CES
View ArticleThe Inside Story of India’s $50 Computer Tablet
The Inside Story of India’s $50 Computer TabletOLPC XO 3.0 Hands On: The $100 Wonder TabletOLPC's XO 3.0 tablet hands-onThe problem with $99 Android tablets - they suck!Will Boot to Gecko (B2G) become...
View ArticleOLPC's next XO generation to get new touchscreen
h-online.com: Educational initiative OLPC (One Laptop per Child), which attracted headlines in 2005 for its $100 laptop has announced the first details of its next generation of devices. The XO-4 Touch...
View ArticleDeathwatch: One Laptop Per Child
readwrite.com: One Laptop Per Child puts computers in the hands of the world's most vulnerable children to help educate them out of poverty. It's a noble cause championed by our brightest minds - but...
View ArticleDell ships XPS 13 laptop with Ubuntu
Dell ships lightweight XPS 13 laptop with UbuntuDell releases powerful, well-supported Linux UltrabookHP Pavilion dm1-4310e: Swapping Windows 8 for LinuxOLPC cancels XO-3 tablet, downplays need for new...
View ArticleOLPC XO-Tablet coming to Walmart July 16th (maybe)
liliputing.com: The One Laptop Per Child foundation set out with an ambitious goal about half a decade ago, to deliver a $100 laptop that could change the face of education in the developing world....
View ArticleOLPC’s New $150 Android Tablet Is on Sale at Walmart
OLPC’s New $150 Android Tablet Is on Sale at WalmartIntroducing the XO Learning TabletFamily Oriented XO Tablet Debuts at Walmart for $149read more
View ArticleAfter OLPC, does IT in education have a future?
Muzomuhle is exactly the kind of school that must have been in Nicholas Negroponte's mind when he launched the One Laptop Per Child project in 2005. And it's also exactly the kind of place which...
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Feasibility of desktop on ARM cpu
Thinkpad X60 is old, Core Duo@1.8GHz, 2GB RAM notebook. But it is still pretty usable desktop machine, as long as Gnome2 is used, number of Chromium tabs does not grow "unreasonable", and development...
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News: OLPC releases a farm version.
The One Laptop Per Child project, still going strong in 2015, provides a new version of the nearly indestructable XO laptop which is specifically geared toward children in farming communities. The XO...
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