Tag archive: OLPC

Teaming up with chip maker Marvell, the One Laptop Per Child non-profit organization will be at CES displaying the XO 3.0 tablet designed for children in South American and African countries. Coming in at a scant $100 price tag for the base model, the tablet utilizes Marvell's 1Ghz PXA618 processor in addition to 512MB of RAM and runs on both Google Android Honeycomb as well as OLPC's custom Linux operating system. Shipping with an… Read More

The One Laptop Per Child project, which aims to put computers in the hands of children in emerging markets so they aren't left out of the digital revolution, said on Thursday it plans to add an option for a touchscreen to its forthcoming OLPC XO 1.75 laptop, which is schedule to start shipping in 2011. Although the XO 1.75 will also be available without a touchscreen—and those versions will be less costly—the OLPC project… Read More

The One Laptop Per Child project has announced a partnership with electronics manufacturer Marvell to design a series of education-focused tablet computers aimed at schools in emerging markets. The initial designs will be based on Marvell's Moby tablet, but future designs will be work towards low-power versions of the OLPC's very slim XO-3 designs, which is aiming at a 2012 release. The move signals the OLPC project is shifting away… Read More

The One Laptop per Child project was founded with the laudable goal of bringing laptops to children in emerging markets and the developing world for less than $100 apiece—and while the project has overcome many internal, financial, and technological hurdles, the initial XO notebooks are still running about $200 apiece. However, the OLPC has been able to get a large number of notebooks to schools and education systems around the world,… Read More

The One Laptop Per Child project and display technology spinoff Pixel Qi have announced a display technology cross-licensing agreement that will let each organization use the other's low-power, high-performance screen technologies…for free and forever. “A huge barrier to getting computers to mass use in the developing world is limited access to electricity,” said OLPC founder and chair Nicholas Negroponte, in a… Read More

The One Laptop Per Child project may be facing some competition for inexpensive notebooks aimed at juicing education in developing markets—and may never have hit its major $100-per-system price point—but that doesn't mean Nicholas Negroponte's ambitious effort to bridge the so-called digital divide is giving up. The OLPC project has just announced a roadmap for future XO laptop systems, including an XO 1.5 and XO 1.75… Read More

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… Read More

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.… Read More

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… Read More

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… Read More

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… Read More

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… Read More

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… Read More

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… Read More

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… Read More