admin @ July 28, 2008 # No Comment Yet
Even though the XO Laptop’s Sugar-coated OS wasn’t exactly the most vaunted aspect of the attempted laptop-for-all, following Windows XP’s invasion of the project, former OLPC exec Walter Bender’s newly formed Sugar Labs is shopping Sugar around. They’re in talks with at least four “ultra low-cost” notebook makers who would use it for kid computers. [...]
admin @ July 27, 2008 # No Comment Yet
At OLPC’s Global Country workshop today, founder Nick Negroponte unveiled the next-gen XO Laptop, and it totally blows the original away. About half the XO 1.0’s size and more like a foldable book, it does away with the keyboard and trackpad to go totally touchscreen—that’s right, dual touchscreens, straight out of the future, like a [...]
admin @ July 7, 2008 # No Comment Yet
We have all heard about the endless problems OLPC is having with its shipments. However, an email sent to one of our own stated that the production schedule is “still on track” and that the laptop he ordered is expected to be delivered “by the middle or the end of March.” This comes despite the [...]
admin @ January 28, 2008 # No Comment Yet
News from the troubled One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) project seems to go from bad to worse these days in the wake of is high-profile split from [...]
admin @ January 28, 2008 # No Comment Yet
After referring to the OLPC laptop as “pedagogically suspect” a year ago, and claiming that they could build a laptop for $10 this past May, India has come back down to Earth and decided to take part in the project by delivering 22 of the laptops to lucky children in a one-room school in Maharashtra. [...]