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India Orders 250,000 OLPC Laptops

India Orders 250,000 OLPC Laptops

Although for the last few years India hasn’t exactly been warm to the idea of the One Laptop Per Child project, IDG News Service is reporting two Indian government organizations have placed an order for 250,000 OLPC notebook computers. Although the order still leaves the struggling OLPC organization far short of its goal to have shipped millions of OLPC notebooks by this point, if the order plays out it could be a significant shot in the arm to the organization.

According to reports, distribution of the OLPC notebooks is set to begin in June, with as many as 1,500 schools in rural and suburban areas receiving the notebooks.

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PixelQi’s Three-in-One 3Qi Display Due Next Month

PixelQi

At the Interactive Displays 2009 conference in San Jose, PixelQi head Mary Lou Jepson says her startup company is getting ready to ship samples of its first display, the 3Qi, as soon as next month. The innovative display will feature a low-power black-and-white mode, an e-paper mode, and a full-color mode—and, appropriate to having been a co-founder of the OLPC project, the display should be readable in full sunlight and cheap.

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OLPCorps Wants to Send 100 Teams of Interns to Africa

OLPCorps Wants to Send 100 Teams of Interns to Africa

The One Laptop Per Child organization has announced it is launching an internship program to send graduate and undergraduate students to Africa to help out with creating educational opportunities for children in African nations. Dubbed OLPCorps, the program will outfit up to 100 student teams with 100 OLPC XO laptops and up to $10,000 to cover operating expenses, and the teams will spend nine weeks in an African nation working directly with community and education partners to integrate the XO laptops into children’s primary education.

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OLPC Lays Off Half Its Staff

OLPC Lays Off Half Its Staff

The much-touted One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) program has announced it is laying off half its staff and reducing salaries for its remaining employees, blaming the global economic downturn for the restructuring. At the same time, the program is vowing to do more with less, including spinning off the development of the Linux-based Sugar operating system to the OLPC community and working to deploy a $0 laptop for the worlds least developed nations.

The changes leave the OLPC program with 32 people.

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XO Laptop Hits Europe

One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) has been selling its machines through Amazon in the US since September, after having had trouble delivering machines under its Give One, Get One scheme, through which buyers obtain a laptop for themselves and in the price donate one to a school child in a developing country.

As of today the scheme will begin operating in Europe, again through Amazon, with OLPC’s distinctive laptop available in all 27 EU countries, as well as Turkey, Switzerland and Russia, the BBC reports. It will retail for around $395.  Read more...

OLPC Fires Up Give One, Get One Round Two

OLPC Fires Up Give One, Get One Round Two

The One Laptop Per Child project is getting set to pull the trigger on its Give One, Get One campaign, this time launching on November 17 in conjunction with Amazon.com. Reader may reall last year, OLPC offered its XO notebook to customers in developed nations…on the condition they also buy another XO laptop to be distributed to a child in a developing nation. The program generated enough response last year that OLPC actually extended the program past its termination date; however, production delays coupled with delivery and fulfillment problems actually turned the whoel operation into something of a black eye for the OLPC project.

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OLPC Joins With Amazon

The One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) organization has signed a deal with Amazon to sell its low-cost laptops under the Give 1 Get 1 (G1G1) program from November through the end of the year, the BBC reports.

OLPC had run the program, under which people pay for two laptops at a total cost of $398, receiving one with the other going to a schoolchild in a developing nation, but it had run into problems with production delays, which it hopes the partnership with Amazon will overcome.  Read more...

Niue Gives OLPC to Every Student

Niue Gives OLPC to Every Student

The tiny Pacific island nation of Niue—perhaps best known to Internet users for its .nu top-level domain—has become the first nation in the world to give an OLPC XO laptop to every one of its primary and secondary students. Niue has about 400 students and a total population of about 1,500; it’s located in the south Pacific near New Zealand.

The OLPC rollout in Niue has been underway since July, and is part of a larger initiative to distribute 5,000 OLPC laptops in the Pacific region.

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OLPC, Microsoft Partner for XP on the XO

OLPC, Microsoft Partner for XP on the XO

Microsoft Corporation and the non-profit One Laptop Per Child project has announced an agreement that will put Windows XP on the OLPC XO laptop—albeit with a higher price tag attached. OLPC XO’s will still be available with the organization’s Linux-based operating system and education-centric Sugar interface, but versions will also be available with XP, which should make the notebooks easier to sell to governments and educational programs who want to be sure students are acquiring marketable skills. The companies also plan to work together on a version of the XO notebook that can boot into either XP or Sugar, and the OLPC foundation says it plans to work with third parties to port the Sugar interface to Windows.

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OLPC Names New President and COO

The One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) project has announced that current CFO Charles Kane will be stepping into the roles of President and Chief Operating Officer of the organization as the non-profit looks to put recent snafus and key personnel losses behind then. OLPC founder Nicholas Negroponte will stay on board as Chairman, and will focus on fundraising and promoting OLPC to world governments; Kane will assume responsibility for all OLPC operations, as well as negotiating agreements with third parties.  Read more...

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