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OLPC Laptop May Hit Retail Market By Christmas
The One Laptop Per Child Foundation told Reuters they're considering selling their XO laptop in stores for $350-$525 this coming holiday season. [Reuters]
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OLPC Just Can't Catch a Break This Week
Joy of Tech's apparently drinking the same OLPC haterade everyone else is this week, though it rags on OLPC's triumphant aftermath rather than the program's recently harped on shortcomings. Hit the jump to see the one year later snap/potshot.
The OLPC Gets Handed Its Ass...Again
Intel and Microsoft have shipped 150,000 of their "Classmate PCs" to the Libyan government, beating the OLPC to the market there. OLPC is expected to ship 1.2 million of their laptops to Libya, but that may prove difficult given the recent news...
Video: $100 OLPC XO Runs Doom
Cory D. at BoingBoing drops this video of the $100 OLPC running Doom on its reflective dual screen. Ghetto, but man, I remember wishing my old TFT screened laptops would play doom this well. Doom shall be distributed to the poor!–Brian Lam
Intel Classmate OS Will Be as Sugary as the OLPC
Intel's for-profit take on the OLPC concept will soon share a UI with its spiritual predecessor. Walter Bender, the guy who made the original child-friendly Sugar interface with the OLPC project, told PC Magazine that Sugar will be adapted to the...
OLPC Ad by Heroes' Masi Oka Has Us Convinced
We might have been a bit harsh on Masi Oka and his OLPC ambassadorship when it was first announced, but this ad of his seems pretty solid. He's pimping the OLPC Give One Get One program, which lets you buy two laptops (one for yourself, one for...
OLPC Releases Details of Christmas Sales Initiative
The XO laptop will soon be available for purchase in the US via OLPC's "Give 1 Get 1" program. The business model is interesting; essentially, the cost of ownership shall be $400 for one XO laptop. The price shall also provide funding for a second...
OLPC America to Help Kids Back Home
The OLPC is all set to launch an American branch, called OLPC America, which aims to help kids from low-income families in the US. The new arm of OLPC has already acquired a director and chairman, and their head office is likely to be situated in...
India Comes Crawling Back to OLPC
After referring to the OLPC laptop as "pedagogically suspect" a year ago, and claiming that they could build a laptop for $10 this past May, India has come back down to Earth and decided to take part in the project by delivering 22 of the laptops...
Photos: Red OLPC Limited Edition
Wilson caught this limited edition Red OLPC at the company's headquarters near MIT's campus in Cambridge today. The limited edition run of 100 is made for developers working on the dual boot Sugar Linux and Windows XP system, and has specs...
Intel Walks Away From OLPC Because Negroponte Is Mildly Insane
OLPC should be snagging mad coverage over at Valleywag, they're generating tabloid headlines like it's their mission lately (so tame!). The latest: After joining OLPC following its bitch fight with OLPC founder Nicholas Negroponte over its...
