May 20, 2008

RIP OLPC - ZDNet Blogs

By Jay - In at 7:00 am

RIP OLPC - ZDNet Blogs
Tags: Laptop Computer , One Laptop Per Child Project , Mako Hill , Sugar , Tools & Techniques , Linux , Management , Operating Systems , Software , Paul Murphy Here are two priceless bits from a long comment on problems within the one laptop per

Laptop mixologist Gregg Gillis bares (almost) all - Detroit Free Press
What Gregg Gillis does on stage under the moniker Girl Talk is about as minimalist as you can get, which may be why he’s known, in addition to his prowess in mashing up song samples into sound collages, for getting undressed during performances. “I

Design accolades for One Laptop Per Child - International Herald Tribune
LONDON : If we voted for the most talked-about design project of recent years, there’d only be one contender. More words have been spoken, written and blogged about the efforts of the nonprofit organization One Laptop Per Child to develop a $100

Non-profit’s laptop links up with Microsoft - Silicon Valley
BOSTON (AP) - The One Laptop Per Child project is about to find out whether Microsoft, a rival the non-profit group once derided, is the solution to its problems in spreading inexpensive portable computers to schoolchildren. Microsoft and the laptop

Low-Cost Laptop Opens Up to Microsoft - FOX News
Exadith Solis, 8, looks up while using her XO laptop in Arahuay, an Andean hilltop village in Peru, in a December 2007 file photo. Exadith Solis, 8, looks up while using her XO laptop in Arahuay, an Andean hilltop village in Peru, in a December 2007

One Laptop, two systems - Boston Globe
THE GOAL of the nonprofit One Laptop per Child project has always been exciting: build a cheap, sturdy laptop and give it to poor children in developing countries to improve their educations. Getting from this idea to reality has been tough, but One

Dell offers world’s first laptop with 7,200rpm 320GiB disk - HEXUS.net
Prospective laptop buyers have always faced one tough decision; shall I opt for the higher capacity 5,400rpm drive, or the smaller-but-faster 7,200rpm drive? At long last, that question is finally becoming a thing of the past. Dell’s 17in XPS M1730



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