Tag: OLPC

The tiny green and white, $100 XO notebook has been in development by the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) foundation for years, but the device, intended to bring computing to children around the world, has only now received its first official order. The government of Uruguay has purchased 100,000 devices for children 6-8-years-old. If things go well, the South American country's government has ...

Still think Bill Gates is the world's richest man? Get with the times, chico. Mexican businessman Carlos Slim now holds the honor with a net worth of 73.3 billion dollars, and like Gates, he's doing something good with his cash. Slim has decided to donate 250,000 laptops to children immediately, and by 2008 hopes to give up to a million computers. While no mention was made of what sort of ...

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 ...