Microsoft to Test Windows on XO

Microsoft Corp. will begin testing a version of Windows XP in January on the "$100 laptop" from One Laptop Per Child.

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One of the issues with the OLPC project has always been power. There's just not electricity in all the parts of the world where the OLPC is intended to be used. There is a solution available, however, and it's being tested in Afghanistan.

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WASHINGTON: Sounding a note of caution, Islamabad's envoy to Washington has said the United States suffered serious consequences as a result of walking away from Afghanistan and Pakistan after the Soviet pullout in 1989 and urged that the mistake should not be repeated.

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The One Laptop Per Child operating system is now available for free downloading for "any" PC or Netbook, according to its maker.

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What good does it do a child in the 3rd world country have a laptop computer?

I have seen over and over on Hulu.com this commercial about donating a laptop computer to a child anywhere in the world.

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India has purchased 250,000 XO laptops. This move will boost the One Laptop Per Child project and could help the deflating effort get back on its feet.

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OLPC and F/LOSS enthusiast Dr.

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For those inspired by Nicholas Negroponte's vision of bringing affordable computing to every child on the planet, it was a sad day early this month when the One Laptop Per Child Foundation he founded announced it was laying off half its staff and undertaking a significant reorg …

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Like many other nonprofits that are facing tough economic times, One Laptop per Child must downsize in order to keep costs in line with fewer financial resources. Today we are reducing our team by approximately 50% and there will be salary reductions for the remaining 32 people.

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Former Beatle John Lennon is featuring in a charity's TV advertisement in the US, 28 years after his death. The singer has been brought back to life using digital technology for the One Laptop Per Child initiative.

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The OLPC movement rode a rollercoaster of fun disaster danger when it decided to try and give away a unit to kids in need for every unit sold to US customers last year. Now that rollercoaster ride is coming to Australia.

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The government of Colombia has established a deal to bring the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) project's distinctive XO laptop to the country for a pilot program that will involve schools in several towns.

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Amazon.com will start selling One Laptop Per Child's low-cost XO notebook computer as part of the Give One, Get One program the OLPC developed last year, an OLPC official said yesterday.

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The tiny South Pacific nation of Niue Thursday became the first nation in the world to issue laptop computers to all its children, officials said.

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Nicholas Negroponte had a vision: to build a $100 laptop and give away millions to educate the world's poorest children. And then the fat-cat multinationals got scared and broke it...

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Derek Lomas, Jesse Austin-Breneman and other designers want to create a computer that Third World residents can buy for less than you probably spend on lunch.

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Intel's Classmate PC notebook, which competes with the OLPC (One Laptop Per Child) XO laptop, is getting a big boost after Portugal contracts to purchase 500,000 of these Intel laptops for students.

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Sayed Pervez Kambaksh's crime was to download and distribute a document about Islam and women's rights to his fellow students at Balkh University in Mazar, an action that the court considered blasphemous. ...

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Walter Bender, the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) project's former president of software, is launching a non-profit foundation that will continue development of OLPC's Sugar software platform.

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Walter Bender left "One Laptop Per Child" because he is committed to Sugar, the open source software OS that he hopes will significantly impact children's learning.

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Tossing aside its iconic green-and-white laptop with its distinctive antennas, One Laptop per Child (OLPC) is pursuing a smaller 2.0 version, scheduled for release in 2010, in which dual touch screens will replace the keypad.

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At the much-anticipated press-event that took place at OLPC HQ in Boston earlier today, the organization unveiled its plans for second generation of XO hardware.

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I'm "live blogging" from the One Laptop Per Child Foundation's day-long media event at the MIT Media Lab.

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The former security director of the One Laptop Per Child non-profit has blasted the project for losing sight of its goals, accusing chairman Nicholas Negroponte of deceiving the public. It's all about shipping kit, says Ivan Krstić in an incendiary essay.

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The One Laptop Per Child project and Microsoft announced Thursday that indeed the XO laptop will be available in both Linux and Windows varieties.

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The One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) project, which is making low-cost education laptops to sell in bulk to governments in developing countries, is struggling to sustain momentum in the wake of a reorganization that has alienated several key contributors.

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