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OLPC Origin: Bittersweet Success and Future of the XO Laptop

Wilson Rothman
8/28/08 2:40pm
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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…

OLPC Origins: US and Taiwan's Hardware Lovechild

Wilson Rothman
8/27/08 12:30pm
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In November of 2005, Nicholas Negroponte and his OLPC CTO Mary Lou Jepsen traveled to Tunisia for the UN-sponsored World Summit on the Information Society, where they were able to present a "working" $100 laptop concept to Kofi Annan, UN secretary general. No longer did the machine rely on that pop-up rear-projection…

Secret Origin of the OLPC: Genius, Hubris and the Birth of the Netbook

Wilson Rothman
8/26/08 12:00pm
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From the moment Nicholas Negroponte showed off his $100 laptop concept at the Davos world economic summit in January 2005, it was as if the tech world's supermoguls were glowering down on him in judgment. Over the course of the year, Craig Barrett, Michael Dell, Bill Gates and Steve Jobs weighed in, privately…

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