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  1. Regular Linux Desktops on the XO details »
    www.osnews.com Posted 9 hours ago feed details »

    "Me and Bobby Powers have spent a few hours smoothing out the process of getting fully-featured Linux desktops to boot on the XO laptop. On the whole, OLPC developers...

  2. Student Develops Cheap Power Turbine For Developing Nations [Green Power] details »
    gizmodo.com Posted 6 hours ago by Matt Hickey feed details »

    It's one thing to tinker in your garage to restore that old gas-guzzling muscle car that you think will get you some action. It's something entirely different to invent...

  3. Mystery Tablet Shown at Intel Event, Either the Classmate 3 or a Quad-Core Speak & Spell [Classified Intel] details »
    gizmodo.com Posted 10 hours ago by John Herrman feed details »

    At the end of an otherwise tepid presentation at the Intel Developer Forum today, Dadi Perimutter, head of Intel's Mobility Group, dropped a bomb (via PowerPoint) on his...

  4. OXPC? Thoughts on Windows XP on the OLPC details »
    blog.webreakstuff.com Posted 13 weeks and 5 days ago by Fred Oliveira feed details »

    If you’ve been around Techmeme in the last few hours you probably read about the agreement between Microsoft and One Laptop Per Child about making Windows XP...

  5. Stay Tuned: Untold OLPC Hardware Story Coming Soon [Announcement] details »
    gizmodo.com Posted 6 days ago by Wilson Rothman feed details »

    Due to some mysterious server mumbo jumbo, our untold story of the OLPC's hardware beginnings—featuring amazing facts, fun pics and an exclusive video interview...

  6. Laptop Mag's XP OLPC Experience is Not Mine details »
    weblogs.jupiterresearch.com Posted 13 days ago by Michael Gartenberg feed details »

    Cant' speak to the exclusive nature of Laptop Mag's running an OLPC running XP as I've been running one here for several weeks. I am finding a totally different...

  7. OLPC's open source qualms underscores a larger limit details »
    weblog.infoworld.com Posted 16 weeks and 6 days ago by Galen Gruman feed details »

    It's all very noble. MIT researcher and pundit Nicholas Negroponte challenges the PC industry to develop and sell a $100 PC for poor countries so their populations can be...

  8. Hackety Org details »
    redhanded.hobix.com Posted 67 weeks and 5 days ago by why the lucky stiff feed details »

    Thankyou for enjoying The RedHanded Adventure Show. We have had the nth batmans galore!! I adore you. I will never forget you. I will especially not forget you if you...

  9. Did the big boys really kill OLPC? details »
    education.zdnet.com Posted 9 days ago by Christopher Dawson feed details »

    The UK's Timesonline is running a story today showing us that, despite internal strife, questionable morals and ideals, and now, the inclusion of Windows XP on a computer...

  10. ResearchBuzz Roundup 051808 details »
    www.researchbuzz.org Posted 13 weeks and 3 days ago by admin feed details »

    Online memorial planned for China quake victims. What a great technology term…. Creepy Treehouse! Pandia interviews Northern Light. OLPC is getting Windows????...

  11. Nicaragua details »
    annevankesteren.nl Posted 5 weeks ago feed details »

    In a few hours from now (at about 4AM Utrecht, The Netherlands) I’ll leave with a taxi that takes me to a bus, which takes me to Brussels; from where a plane takes me...

  12. It is the poor carpenter who blames his tools... details »
    egofood.blogspot.com Posted 16 weeks and 3 days ago by Chris DiBona feed details »

    This week, OLPC had a dust up, a kerfuffle even. Walter Bender, OLPC's former president of sofware, left the organization. Why? Well, some think it was because of the...

  13. Sugar UI Wins IDSA Award details »
    blog.pentagram.com Posted 4 weeks and 5 days ago by Lisa Kahan feed details »

    The 2008 International Design Excellence Awards were announced today and Sugar, the user interface designed by Lisa Strausfeld and her team for One Laptop per Child,...

  14. Stormy Peters: Sugar (the software on OLPC) and my conversation with Walter Bender details »
    www.stormyscorner.com Posted 2 weeks and 6 days ago feed details »

    I had a good conversation with Walter Bender, former president of One Laptop per Child (OLPC) and the founder of Sugar Labs. Sugar is the software that comes on OLPCs. It...

  15. Noble goals and politics at the OLPC details »
    blogs.zdnet.com Posted 16 weeks and 5 days ago by John Carroll feed details »

    The “One Laptop Per Child” project (OLPC), the brainchild of Nicholas Negroponte, was envisioned as a way to bring the cost of computing down to a level where...

  16. OLPC gaining momentum in India?! details »
    www.olpcnews.com Posted 2 weeks and 5 days ago feed details »

    To describe India’s relationship with OLPC as “rocky” would almost be an understatement. Back in 2006 for example the Indian Ministry of Education was very...

  17. Windows XP ready for OLPC notebooks details »
    www.electronista.com Posted 3 weeks and 5 days ago feed details »

    Microsoft has finally completed the OLPC version of Windows XP, the company has announced. The scaled-down operating system has been released to manufacturing, and is...

  18. XO in the classroom - the whole story details »
    www.halcyon.com Posted 10 days ago by Mark Ahlness feed details »

    I've written frequently about the XO Laptop here, and I thought it would be useful to try and organize all those writings in one place. I certainly did not start out the...

  19. Hands on with OLPC and Windows XP details »
    www.crunchgear.com Posted 13 days ago feed details »

    We’ve known for a while that Microsoft was going to be showing up on OLPC’s XO. Starting in September the little laptop meant to inspire children in developing...

  20. Move over, OLPC -- the $12 Apple II-based PC is coming details »
    www.engadget.com Posted 2 weeks ago feed details »

    Filed under: DesktopsAlright, so it won't be a laptop, adorable, or have a cheeky Linux-based OS that's eventually replaced by Windows, but unlike the OLPC or the...