Tag archive: Walter Bender

They call it Sugar on a stick. It’s the collaborative open source software originally developed for One Laptop Per Child (OLPC), the hoped-for $100 XO laptop, which actually comes in a $199. And now it’s available for all PCs, and “a great new opportunity to breathe new life into these old machines," Walter Bender, founder of Sugar Labs, told the BBC. It can be run from a USB drive, giving older PCs a new interface… 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

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… Read More

After five years of talking and development, it’s finally happening: the $100 laptop known as the XO is beginning mass production.   It’s been criticized, reviled, and praised, butnow the first units should be in the hands of kids in developing countries by October.   The One Laptop Per Child (OLPC), the inspiration of ProfessorNicholas Negroponte, has been questioned and derided by people like Bill Gates and Intel chairman… Read More

The One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) effort has reached a major milestone: Shanghai's Quanta Computer has pushed the first 1,000 XO laptop computers off its assembly line to begin environmental testing and software refinement. The idea behind the One Laptop Per Child initiative is to improve the educations of children around the world—and especially in developing nations—by putting low-cost, energy-efficient, open-source,… Read More