Neowin News Feed for: Olpc

Raspberry Pi: The $25 USB key-sized computer

Denis Wong — Fri, 06 May 2011 08:54:04 +0000

It's yet another initiative to build low power, portable, and affordable computers for educational purposes, especially in the developing world. Previous attempts have not seen widespread success, such as the One Laptop Per Child initiative.... Read more...

OLPC Foundation hit by recession

Chakkaradeep Chandran — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 22:26:42 +0000

The OLPC foundation(part of Media Lab of MIT earlier) introduced the "Give One, Get One" program during Christmas and New Year holiday period of 2007/2008 to promote the sale of the $100 OLPC computers. During... Read more...

Amazon to Sell OLPC XO Laptops From November

Daniel Fleshbourne — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 10:59:39 +0000

Amazon.com will start selling One Laptop Per Child's low-cost XO notebook computer as part of the Give One, Get One program OLPC developed last year, according to an official from OLPC. The non-profit organization started... Read more...

Intel Classmate Notebook Gets Touch, Tablet Upgrades

Daniel Fleshbourne — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 18:17:45 +0000

The Intel Classmate PC notebook is undergoing a makeover that will add touch-screen and tablet capabilities to the low-cost laptop for students, and these versions of the Classmate will also include the Intel Atom processor.... Read more...

First Look: OLPC XO-2

Matthew Abbott — Fri, 23 May 2008 03:26:46 +0000

I am here this morning in Cambridge, Mass., at OLPC's Global Country Workshop. Opening the conference this morning was OLPC founder Nicholas Negroponte, who announced the second generation of the OLPC XO laptop, which will... Read more...

OLPC Sugar software goes independent

Daniel Fleshbourne — Mon, 19 May 2008 11:46:32 +0000

The former president of software and content at One Laptop per Child has launched Sugar Labs in the wake of the project's decision to ship with Windows XP. Walter Bender said that Sugar Labs Foundation... Read more...

Microsoft seals the deal with OLPC

Fri, 16 May 2008 13:06:00 +0000

After much negotiations, and countless rumors, it is now official: OLPC's XO Laptop, will now be offered with Windows XP. Sales of the laptop will be offered to some countries in... Read more...

OLPC developing dual-boot Windows, Linux OS for laptops

Wed, 09 Jan 2008 16:23:21 +0000

The One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) project and Microsoft Corp. are working together to develop a dual-boot system to put both Linux and Windows on laptops aimed at kids in developing countries, the head of... Read more...

Intel Quits OLPC Board Over Pressure to Kill Classmate PC

Daniel Fleshbourne — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 13:17:19 +0000

Intel resigned from the One Laptop Per Child Project's board of directors after refusing a request to abandon its Classmate PC program, according to a source familiar with the situation. Intel's departure from OLPC's board... Read more...

Microsoft to Try Windows XP Out on OLPC in January

Daniel Fleshbourne — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 10:53:33 +0000

Microsoft said it plans to conduct field trials in January of Windows XP running on the One Laptop Per Child XO laptop. The XO laptop ships with a Linux operating system and is meant to... Read more...

OLPC Experiments with Cow-Powered Laptops

Fri, 26 Oct 2007 01:37:49 +0000

According to One Laptop Per Child Project's Arjun Sarwal, the group is considering powering its low-cost XO laptops with cows: "We plan to drive a dynamo (taken from an old Fiat) through a system of... Read more...

OLPC Seeks Educational Games for XO Laptop

Sat, 26 May 2007 02:48:02 +0000

The One Laptop Per Child Project is asking software coders to develop free, open-source educational computer games for the XO laptop, continuing its push toward a September launch date. OLPC offered a laptop prize for... Read more...

OLPC project clarifies: no plans for Windows support

Thu, 03 May 2007 16:43:53 +0000

Claims that the One Laptop Per Child project and Microsoft had partnered to put Windows XP Starter Edition on the laptop have turned out to be false. According to Walter Bender, president of Software and... Read more...

OLPC aims for mass production in Q3

Daniel Fleshbourne — Thu, 04 Jan 2007 11:56:01 +0000

One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) hopes to begin mass production of its low-cost notebooks aimed at children in developing nations in August or September. In late 2005, when the nonprofit organization released a prototype of... Read more...

First OLPC laptops make it out the door

Fri, 17 Nov 2006 10:28:38 +0000

After much anticipation and hordes of coverage, the first OLPC ($100 laptops) laptops are being shipped. Only 10 units so far have made it out the door, and are going to be evaluated as beta... Read more...

Nigeria orders first million OLPC laptops

Daniel Fleshbourne — Wed, 26 Jul 2006 11:35:30 +0000

Nigeria has officially ordered and paid for one million of the One Laptop per Child (OLPC) devices, according to the Nigerian Vanguard newspaper. The deal is the first actual order for the project that aims... Read more...