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  • Negroponte offers OLPC technology for $35 tablet

    By Agam Shah | 31 July, 2010 04:57

    The nonprofit organization One Laptop Per Child wants to join forces to help develop the Indian government's planned US$35 tablet.

  • OLPC plans super-thin, super-cheap tablet

    By Ian Paul | 24 December, 2009 04:14

    The nonprofit group One Laptop Per Child wants to produce a touchscreen tablet computer by 2012 that will cost less than US$100. OLPC released its device roadmap this week, which includes two upgrades to the original XO computer, as well as lofty plans for a new 8.5in by 11in tablet device called the XO-3.

  • OLPC unveils 'unbreakable' netbook

    By Carrie-Ann Skinner | 24 December, 2009 01:41

    The One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) group has unveiled a new netbook made from one sheet of plastic, which it claims is "unbreakable".

  • Skeptics question OLPC's focus with $75 tablet

    By Agam Shah | 24 December, 2009 08:03

    Skeptics are criticizing the nonprofit One Laptop Per Child for losing its educational focus by designing unrealistic hardware at a price point that cannot be achieved.

  • Quanta says first cloud computing devices due out next year

    By Dan Nystedt | 25 August, 2009 05:30

    Quanta Computer, the world's largest contract notebook computer manufacturer, will put out its first cloud computing products next year as it seeks growth in new markets, the company's chairman said Monday.

  • OLPC drops AMD chips for Via

    By Agam Shah | 20 April, 2009 05:57

    One Laptop Per Child on Friday refreshed its XO-1 laptop hardware, dumping chips from Advanced Micro Devices in favor of processors from Via Technologies.

  • Colombia signs up for OLPC laptops with Windows

    By Dan Nystedt | 11 November, 2008 15:51

    Colombia will become the second country to use the One Laptop Per Child Project's (OLPC) XO laptops running Microsoft Windows XP in schools after signing an agreement for pilot programs in two towns, Microsoft said late Monday.

  • Peru to be first with new OLPC laptop with Windows

    By Dan Nystedt | 17 September, 2008 09:29

    The government of Peru will run the first ever trial of the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) association's low-cost XO laptop running on Microsoft's Windows XP operating system, putting the nation at the heart of a software controversy.

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