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Ambition Fails for One Laptop Per Child

Visionary project lowering expectations as for-profit competitors muscle in

By Kevin Spak, Newser Staff

Posted Nov 25, 2007 2:38 PM CST

(Newser) – One Laptop Per Child started with a monstrously ambitious goal – build laptops for $100 each, sell them by the millions to the developing world. But since then, cost overruns and attacks from for-profit competitors have ravaged demand, the Wall Street Journal reports. A mere... Read full story »

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