The One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) project, which seeks to produce low-cost laptops for education, revealed on Thursday that it might drop the aging AMD Geode processor it has been using and replace ...

Some critics speculate that the project's ivory tower roots could be working against its success. Negroponte's desire to bring in someone with business sense to become the CEO reflects OLPC's ...

The One Laptop per Child project's "Give One, Get One" program has been extended through Dec. 31 as donations averaged about $2 million a day. On that pace, the OLPC should move about 490,000 ...

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The $100 OLPC laptop was supposed to revolutionize education and close the digital divide. But in just a few years it was recognized as a failure, a symbol of tech industry hubris, a one-size-fits ...

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The One Laptop Per Child project is going modular. The non-profit's Australian partner, One Education, is gearing up to launch a new hybrid laptop in a few weeks that will let you swap out ...

The news that the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) project is close to launching a $75 tablet for children is pretty remarkable. Non-profit founder Nicholas Negroponte said this week that OLPC hopes to ...

May 30, 2008 The One Laptop per Child (OLPC) project looks to be on track to meet its target of producing a laptop for a price per unit below US$100 set out when the initiative was launched in 2005.

I'd missed this post by George Ou where he claimed that Intel in combination with ASUS have slaughtered Nicholas Negroponte's One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) project with its Ultra-mobile "Eee PC." ...

PixelQi, an OLPC project spin-off headed by Mary Lou Jepsen, certainly has its work cut out for it with the OLPC XO-2, due in 2010. Not only is the laptop supposed to support dual touchscreens and ...

Far more hurtful have been the admonitions of his own former staffers who feel he has mismanaged the OLPC project. Nearly every one of the original staff had abandoned the project by 2008, often ...