OLPC Envisions Reaching Out to 500 Million

23 Dec, 2009, 11:36 am IST tech2 News Staff Notebooks

OLPC hopes to reach 500 million children in all remote corners of the planet. More

Adidas to Make 1 Euro Shoes For World's Poor

16 Nov, 2009, 2:17 pm IST IANS

German sports-shoe company Adidas has confirmed plans to make "one-euro shoes" to offer to the poor and barefoot of the world. More

India Chooses NComputing Over OLPC, Intel

15 Oct, 2008, 10:31 am IST tech2 News Staff Desktops

NComputing has beaten out Intel and OLPC by bagging a deal to supply its products to a massive computer education program by the Andhra Pradesh state government. More

OLPC Project Laptops to Feature Indian Language Keyboards

05 Aug, 2008, 2:12 pm IST IANS Desktops

The OLPC project will now introduce laptops with various keyboards in Urdu, Hindi and Bengali. More

OLPC Reveals Second Generation XO

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

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

Techies Start Noticing Kids' Laptops

08 Feb, 2008, 7:20 pm IST IANS Desktops

India's official response to the OLPC project to distribute low-cost computers among school students may not have been too enthusiastic, but that hasn't stopped techies from seizing the opportunity. More

OLPC/Microsoft In Chats For Dual-Boot Version

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

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

Intel Quits One Laptop Per Child Program

04 Jan, 2008, 11:17 am IST tech2 News Staff Desktops

Intel Corp. is abandoning the One Laptop Per Child program, dealing a big blow to the ambitious project to bring millions of low-cost laptops to children in developing countries. More

Microsoft to Test Windows on $100 Laptop

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

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

Production Begins for Schoolkid Laptops

07 Nov, 2007, 9:10 pm IST AP Desktops

The One Laptop Per Child program, which hopes to distribute sub-$200 computers to schoolchildren in developing countries, has begun mass production. More

Cheap Laptops Arrive for Tryout in India

25 Oct, 2007, 12:49 pm IST AP Desktops

The so-called $100 laptops for children may make it to India after all. More

Reliance, OLPC Foundation Team Up

12 Oct, 2007, 5:29 pm IST PTI Desktops

Reliance Communication (Rcom) will provide Internet connectivity, network and logistics to the OLPC's India initiative. More

Nonprofit Group Hikes Price of $100 Laptop

15 Sep, 2007, 2:00 pm IST Reuters Desktops

A nonprofit group that plans to produce low-cost computers for poor children has raised the laptops' price. More

Uruguay Children Try Low-Cost Laptops

19 May, 2007, 3:34 pm IST AP Desktops

The first laptops, sent to Uruguay, along with a wireless Internet connection, are the gifts from the One Laptop Per Child project More

US Schools May Join OLPC Project

28 Apr, 2007, 12:00 pm IST Reuters Desktops

A project that aims to deliver low-priced laptops with string pulleys to the world's poorest children may have a new market... U.S. schools. More

'$100 Laptop' to Cost $175

27 Apr, 2007, 12:30 pm IST AP Desktops

The founder of the ambitious ''$100 laptop'' project, revealed Thursday that the machine now costs $175. More

5 Million OLPCs To Be Shipped By End Of '07

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

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 Desktops

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

Rwanda Joins OLPC Program

07 Jan, 2007, 12:00 pm IST Sharon Khare Desktops

The government of Rwanda has committed to provide one laptop per child to all primary school children within five years. More

Low-Cost Laptop Could Transform Learning

02 Jan, 2007, 2:50 pm IST AP Desktops

When students in developing countries get their $150 computers in 2007, their experience will be unlike anything on standard PCs. More