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olpc
OLPC Origin: Bittersweet Success and Future of the XO Laptop
When I met with Nicholas Negroponte not long ago, he laughed at the coverage he'd received through the past few years, including our own portrayal of Intel chairman Craig Barrett and him as Beavis and Butthead. 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 in disgust. But Negroponte remains stalwart: "My elephant skin is the thickness of steel," he told me. Perhaps his resistance to criticism has been one of the project’s fatal flaws.
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rumor
Dell Smartphone in 2008?!
In an already interesting article chronicling the last 10 months of the second coming of Michael Dell at his namesake, Forbes mentions two more interesting upcoming products: A suicide chip for stolen laptops that remotely nukes the hard drive, and a smartphone coproduced with Quanta—led on Dell's end by one of the RAZR's daddies, Ron Garriques—that has "video, an MP3 player and internet access and [will] be unleashed on the world early next year." More » -
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Quanta Does Or Does Not Have Contract To Make First And/Or Second Gen iPhone
The closer we get to the iPhone's launch (June 11th? June 20th? June 37th?), the more everybody gets excited over the smallest scraps of information pertaining to the Phone of Phones. Today's hot-and-heaviness surrounds the quasi-announcement that Quanta, would-be maker of the OLPC, is also the would-be maker of the iPhone. Initial reports simply focused on the supposed deal, which said Quanta would make the phones starting in September, and followed that with a company source saying that Quanta had not actually made the deal yet. More »
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cellphones
Dell Getting Into Smartphone Business
Remember when Dell dropped the Axim PDA and the world yawned like a slutty hippopotamus? Well, it looks like it was because even Dell knew that PDAs were out and smartphones (PDAs with calling capabilities) are in. They've contracted Quanta Computer—which incidentally supplies Dell's laptops as well—to build them a smartphone for launch in Q4 2007. More » -
gadgets
Intel/Yahoo to Tap Quanta For Butt-Ugly New UMPC
According to the briefest morsels of info leaking out of the Intel Developer Forum in Taipei, the long-rumored collaboration between Intel and Yahoo to produce their own UMPC device has finally borne fruit in the shape of that rust-colored contraption you see above. More »
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Comment by dougom: Butt-ugly? I don't really think it's ugly, honestly. Frankly, I'm pretty stinkin' tired of the black plastic look.... more » | Other threads
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laptops
Quanta Gets Behind $100 Laptop
We reported last month that the $100 laptop was going to be a reality, but now Taiwanese company Quanta has made a deal to manufacture these One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) computers, designed by MIT Media Labs. Quanta, which also manufactures systems for companies such as HP, Apple, Dell, Gateway, Sony, IBM, Sharp and Fujitsu, has promised "to devote substantial engineering resources to the OLPC project during the first half of 2006 with the goal of bringing the OLPC system to market by the end of 2006." Based on Linux, these laptops feature a 500 MHz processor, a screen capable of displaying both full color and high-contrast black and white, 128MB of RAM and 512MB of flash memory, four USB ports, wireless broadband and will be able to operate on wind-up power. More » -
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