TAG: Nicholas negroponte

OLPC Reveals Second Generation XO

21 May, 2008, 9:32 pm IST tech2 News Staff Notebooks

The OLPC non-profit organization has announced that work is already underway on a second-generation version of its XO laptop computer. More

OLPC/Microsoft In Chats For Dual-Boot Version

10 Jan, 2008, 3:47 pm IST Jayesh Mansukhani Notebooks

OLPC and Microsoft are in chats for jointly developing a dual-boot capable version that will run Windows. More

Microsoft to Test Windows on $100 Laptop

07 Dec, 2007, 11:39 am IST AP Notebooks

Microsoft will begin testing a version of Windows XP in January on the "$100 laptop" from One Laptop Per Child. More

5 Million OLPCs To Be Shipped By End Of '07

20 Feb, 2007, 2:30 pm IST Jayesh Mansukhani Notebooks

OLPC inches closer to a mass rollout and expects to ship nearly 5 million pieces by the end of the year. More

OLPC To Ship With Embedded Kill Switch

19 Feb, 2007, 2:00 pm IST Jayesh Mansukhani Notebooks

The OLPC XO Laptop will come with an embedded kill switch that will allow the laptop to to be disabled remotely. More

Microsoft Developing Entry-level XP for OLPC

06 Dec, 2006, 2:59 pm IST Jayesh Mansukhani Notebooks

Negroponte has revealed that Microsoft is hard at work developing an entry level XP for the OLPC. More

OLPC To Be Sold On ebay

22 Sep, 2006, 5:18 pm IST Jayesh Mansukhani Notebooks

OLPC to be sold in the American market on ebay. More

OLPC To Load $100 PC With Wikipedia Entries

07 Aug, 2006, 3:00 pm IST Jayesh Mansukhani

The $100 PC which is being developed by the OLPC association will ship with articles and snippets of ... More

India Backs Out Of $100 Laptop Program

27 Jul, 2006, 6:30 pm IST Priyanka Pradhan

The Indian government has decided to back out of the ‘One Laptop Per Child' (OLPC) programme, designed to provide children and educators in develo... More