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NEWS ABOUT: One Laptop Per Child

One Laptop Per Child stories: 11 news summaries

 Imagine 
 That: 
 Lennon's  
 Back in 
 TV Ad  

Yoko Ono approves
spot for One Laptop
per Child

Dec 27, 08 4:46 PM CST
(Newser) - John Lennon is starring in a new television commercial for charity 28 years after his death, the Telegraph reports. Thanks to digital technology, the Beatles legend's voice can be heard urging Americans to purchase low-cost computers for the world’s poorest children in the ad for One Laptop per Child.... More »

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children • John Lennon • poverty • Beatles • One Laptop Per Child

One Laptop Per Child Embraces Windows XP

Move gives new life
to seemingly immortal operating system

May 17, 08 11:15 AM CDT
(Newser) - Now that Microsoft has signed on to the One Laptop Per Child initiative—aimed at getting low-cost PCs to kids in poor countries—its Windows XP operating system is again getting a new jolt of life, reports InternetNews.com. The project originally used only free, open-source software such as Linux,... More »

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Microsoft • Linux • One Laptop Per Child • Nicholas Negroponte • Windows XP • open source • computer

 Peru Distributes '$100 Laptop' 

One Laptop per Child effort faces on-the-ground test

Apr 24, 08 3:18 PM CDT
(Newser) - One Laptop per Child got a bumpy start, with the “$100 laptop” soaring to $188, for-profit competitors snatching customers, and developing countries hesitating to buy. But the true test for the nonprofit comes now, as Peru prepares to send 486,500 computers to its poorest schoolchildren. The country faces... More »

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philanthropy • Peru • developing countries • One Laptop Per Child • XO laptop

If $100 Is Too Steep, Wait for the $75 Laptop

One Laptop Per Child exec spins out new firm to make cheaper model

Jan 10, 08 3:30 AM CST
(Newser) - The former chief technology officer of the One Laptop Per Child program has formed a spin-out company that seeks to take the XO laptop a step further—and reduce the cost of the basic computer from $100 to $75. The new operation, Pixel Qi, will aim to develop a cheaper... More »

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One Laptop Per Child • Nicholas Negroponte • Mary Lou Jepsen • Pixel Qi • XO laptop

Intel Bails on Kid Laptop Project

Feud over rival computer sales

Jan 4, 08 7:51 AM CST
(Newser) - Intel has dropped out of its uneasy partnership with the "One Laptop Per Child" global nonprofit program, designed to put inexpensive computers in the hands of millions of children in developing countries. Intel has been feuding with project founder Nicholas  Negroponte, an MIT professor on leave who developed the... More »

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Intel • MIT • XO • One Laptop Per Child • Nicholas Negroponte • Consumer Electronics Show • Classmate • Advanced Micro Devices Inc.

$100 Laptops Fetch $600 on eBay

US consumers go nuts over discount charity laptop

Dec 25, 07 11:11 AM CST
(Newser) - The $100 laptop is turning into the $600 laptop on eBay, reports the San Jose Mercury News, sealing the novelty value of the computer aimed at children in developing countries. Nonprofit One Laptop Per Child is also hawking the laptops through year's end, but many shoppers shelled out extra in... More »

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eBay • laptop • One Laptop Per Child • $100 laptop

Ambition Fails for One Laptop Per Child

Visionary project lowering expectations as for-profit competitors muscle in

Nov 25, 07 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 300,000 are being produced... More »

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Microsoft • Intel • One Laptop Per Child • AMD


XO: Buy 1, a Kid Gets 1 Free

XO buyers will be asked to buy 2nd laptop for needy children

Sep 24, 07 6:23 AM CDT
(Newser) - Americans will be asked to buy XO laptops in pairs—one for themselves and one for a child in a developing nation. Organizers of the "One Laptop Per Child" program hope to distribute laptops to millions of Third World schoolchildren this way. The combined cost of the pair of... More »

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Brazil • MIT • Cambodia • Rwanda • XO • One Laptop Per Child • Nicholas Negroponte • Third World

$100 Laptop Price Hits $188

3 million orders,
fourth price increase for One Laptop
Per Child

Sep 15, 07 9:01 PM CDT
(Newser) - The famous but increasingly misnamed “$100 laptop” will actually cost $188—the fourth price increase for the innovative device designed for nonprofit group One Laptop Per Child, reports the AP. While still a bargain, the bump could scare off developing governments fixed on the “fanciful $100-per-child figure,”... More »

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Thailand • Brazil • MIT • Libya • Uruguay • price • laptop • One Laptop Per Child

Intel, Third World Laptop Initiative Join Forces

Chip giant makes peace with One Laptop Per Child

Jul 13, 07 5:40 PM CDT
(Newser) - Intel and the One Laptop per Child initiative are making peace and embracing the notion of synergy. The chip maker and the pioneer of the $100 laptop concept will stop competing for deals with governments in the developing world and team up, the AP reports. The partnership is a big... More »

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technology • MIT • One Laptop Per Child • developing world • computer

Strife Centers on Laptops for Third World

Intel cranks up competition to provide poor kids with cheap computers

Jun 5, 07 2:00 PM CDT
(Newser) - The race to provide cheap laptops to the developing world is heating up, with Intel working on a second computer priced under $200 and the One Laptop per Child foundation accusing the chipmaker of undermining its efforts. The individual machines aren't expensive, but because governments will buy them in volume... More »

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Intel • One Laptop Per Child • developing world • computer

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