Tag: NEGROPONTE

A sub-$100 tablet could soon become a reality. According to PC World, One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) hopes to develop a working prototype of its XO-3 tablet by the end of this year, and to debut the device at CES 2011 in January -- two years sooner than expected. OLPC founder Nicholas Negroponte says the tablet will take the best parts of the iPad, Kindle and a laptop, wrapping them into a package ...

Get ready, India's $10 laptop is set for its first unveiling on February 3rd. Ok, so it's not quite $10... $20 actually, but that's far better than the $100 some were estimating. It's also much better than the $200 per OLPC XO deal that Negroponte wanted to reportedly charge the Indian government more than two years ago -- an offer rejected by officials with a promise to young Indians to do ...

One of the new poster children for the new social web is one most of us will probably never get our hands on. The XO laptop from the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) foundation is a low-cost, low-powered, rugged laptop aimed at developing nations. In case you haven't been paying attention, the XO or OLPC (or $100 Laptop as it's called) is a first-of-its-kind project loaded with new technologies and ...