Tag: ONE LAPTOP PER CHILD

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 ...

We're almost three years into the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) program, and things are not looking good for the brainchild of Nicholas Negroponte. Negroponte is not just the founder of the OLPC Foundation, but he is also a professor at MIT, a founder of Wired magazine, a board member of Motorola, and was recently brought on by the Wall Street Journal to ensure that publication's editorial ...

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 ...