The XO-1 laptop by the One Laptop per Child (OLPC) initiative is a game-changer for disadvantaged children in developing countries. For a limited time you can benefit as well. It has taken more than ...

African countries are bracing themselves for this month’s rollout of US$150, Linux-based laptops for school children under the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) initiative. The OLPC is the brainchild of ...

Quanta Computer, the world’s largest contract laptop PC manufacturer, already has confirmed orders for 1 million notebook PCs for the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) project, a company representative said ...

Mary Lou Jepsen, the XO laptop’s designer and OLPC’s CTO, split from the project a little over a week ago to “commercialize” some of the tech she developed for the project—the display in ...

Colombia will become the second country to use the One Laptop Per Child Project’s (OLPC) XO laptops running Microsoft Windows XP in schools after signing an ...

Brazil President Luiz Inacio Lula de Silva on Friday received a model of the hyped-up “$100 laptop” from the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) initiative—a program meant to bring rugged and affordable ...

EA’s generously donated one of their biggest (and oldest) properties, SimCity, to the OLPC project to give away free with every laptop. With SimCity, the children of the world can learn to manage ...

The One Laptop Per Child project (OLPC) has whittled down the cost of the green and white computer it hopes to deliver to schoolchildren in developing countries to about 100 euros (US$130) so far, and ...

Glaskowsky takes his first look at the OLPC laptop and provides his analysis of the machine's physical design as well as some early battery-life benchmark results. Peter N. Glaskowsky is a computer ...

OLPC not in the best of shapeThere were a lot of high-sounding goals set when the project kicked off. Now the gloss has been replaced by rust - despite all the spin by the organisation about the ...