Hexus (Free subscription) | yesterday
The not-for-profit firm says it has ditched ideas for a double-screened netbook e-reader and is focusing attention on a paper-sized, low-voltage, waterproof, indestructible tablet instead
LinuxDevices.com (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
One Laptop per Child chairman Nicholas Negroponte told Xconomy that OLPC is prepping an ARM-based version 1.75 of its XO netbook while planning to release a & paper-thin& version 3.0 in 2012. Meanwhile, the Internet Archive is providing OLPC users with 1.6 million e-books, says the nonprofit organization....
One Laptop Per Child News (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
BoomingBang, a RPG game, whose release is due till late OCTOBER 09. The BoomingBang project, started by me, Abhishek Indoria, initially, and a friend, was a small deployment. It was started in March 2009, when none of them (us, actually) have heard of OLPC. Back again, in June, 2 XO laptops were requested, and the project was started officially. The basic mission of players is to eliminate all other...
One Laptop Per Child News (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
Today I had an interesting talk with Satish Jha of OLPC India. Overall he had an interesting theme - India has the ability to finance OLPC for all 25 million children in India, and it should do this now - for if children are not studying on a screen today, they (and India) will not reach full potential in the future. Satish Jha of OLPC India OLPC is affordable to state governments Education in India...
The Guardian Technology blog (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
The One Laptop Per Child project will not be producing a dual-screen follow-up after all, but has plans for a tablet- or slate-style XO-3, according to founder Nicholas Negroponte The OLPC (One Laptop Per Child) project has abandoned plans to produce an innovative dual-screen ebook/netbook, and is aiming for a tablet computer instead. There will also be an ARM-based version of the original XO-1 laptop,...
TechCrunch (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
The One Laptop Per Child project has seen mixed success. With competition from similar, but more familiar-looking items from Intel and others , the OLPC found itself suddenly competing in a market it had no intention of entering. But they're out there, they've had some serious orders , and despite some other speed bumps , has certainly lent a hand in increasing computer literacy in the developing...
Electronista (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
The One Laptop Per Child Association, the manufacturer behind the OLPC notebooks, has axed its plans to build a dual-screen XO device, according to an Xconomy interview with the group's founder and chairman, Nicholas Negroponte. The second generation notebook, originally announced in May of last year, has been scrapped as OLPC instead focuses on adapting the first-generation XO with updated internals....
SlashGear (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
OLPC chairman Nicholas Negroponte has revealed that the twin-display OLPC XO-2 2.0 project has been scrapped, in favor of an updated – but cosmetically identical – revamp of the existing 1.0 XO-1 model and a new, model 3.0 that has “totally different industrial design, more like a sheet of paper”. Speaking to Xconomy, the outspoken exec also sought to redefine the initial,...
Click World News (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
waderoush writes "In May 2008, Nicholas Negroponte, chairman of the One Laptop Per Child Foundation, unveiled an e-book like design for the second-generation XO Laptop, consisting of a pair of facing touchscreens. In a new e-mail interview, Negroponte says that design has been thrown out, and that instead the foundation is working on version '1.75' of the existing green-and-white laptop with a...
One Laptop Per Child News (Free subscription) | 11/02/2009
Back in June of this year, René Seifert, entrepreneur and global citizen, had a vision to create OLPC for Vatsalya Girls Orphanage in Bangalore, India. That's not XO Sugar smile As an internet-entrepreneur and sublime nerd who spends a big chunk of the day in front of the computer, he felt that bringing children from an early age in touch with technology as part of their fundamental education...
The Young Professional Blogs Aggregator (Free subscription) | 10/30/2009
How Moms Use Their iPhones: According to a new survey by mobile advertising network Greystripe, mothers with iPhones regularly let their children use their phones, download games specifically for their children and often use their phones at grocery stores to...
Help Forum (Free subscription) | 10/30/2009
Recently I glimpsed the future, the digital future that is, and I only had to go as far as the KC Stadium. It was a first for this area, the first conference dedicated to the world of technology and how we interact with it; or put simply ‘life in the digital space'. Entitled Hull Digital Live (www.hdlive09.co.uk) it was a coming together of all things digital – the Internet, communication,...
One Laptop Per Child News (Free subscription) | 10/29/2009
I have been following the current debate about sending troops to Afghanistan. I have no idea of how many troops are needed but in our rush to stop the violence, we should not forget that the basic problem is lack of education and development. I feel we should fight insurgencies with laptops, not guns. We are spending a billion dollars per week there using guns; we could have a long lasting and positive...
Click World News (Free subscription) | 10/28/2009
msevior writes "Just released today, the free software AbiWord word processor, employed by the One Laptop Per Child project, tightly integrates with a new collaboration Web site to enable easy real-time collaborative editing of documents. AbiCollab.net also enables documents to be stored online, allows format conversion on the fly, stores the history of the docs in svn, provides direct links to...
DigitalKoans (Free subscription) | 10/28/2009
The Internet Archive has made 1.6 million digitized e-books freely available to children who have laptops from the One Laptop Per Child Foundation. Read more about it at "Internet Archive Opens 1.6 Million E-Books to Kids with OLPC Laptops." Related Posts Internet Archive Launches BookServer Mining a Million Scanned Books: Linguistic and Structure Analysis, Fast Expanded Search, and Improved...
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bharatbook123 | 10/13/2009
Rwanda - Telecoms Market Overview, Statistics & Forecasts The aftermath of the 1994 genocide and a monopolistic market structure until 2006 have weighed on the Rwandan telecommunications sector, but the country is now rapidly catching up with other markets in Africa. Mobile market penetration is still significantly below the regional average. The country has been slow to liberalise the sector, allowing
orangemodels | 05/30/2009
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