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NEWS ABOUT: Nicholas Negroponte

Nicholas Negroponte stories: 4 news summaries

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

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.


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

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