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How employers can pay the OLPC forward and why the OLPC project needs digital badges: As many people know, on Monday of this week, the One Laptop Per Child project began its Give One Get One program whereby individuals who pay $399 (plus 24.95 for shipping) will end up buying two OLPCs -- one for themselves and one that "will be sent to empower a...; Tags: Program, T-Mobile, One Laptop Per Child Project, G1G1, Fran Toolan, David Berlind; Blog posts 2007-11-14
Will you G1G1?: Will you G1G1?You already know the answer, Chris ...The Intel Classmate is a better solution. Besides, rather than G1G1, the BETTER choice is to just send OLPC $400 and deduct it from your federal taxes. If you believe in OLPC, that is the right answer. If you...; Tags: One Laptop Per Child project, G1G1, Classmate PC, Intel Classmate; Discussion threads 2007-11-13
XO laptop sales begin, but support plan is nonexistent: XO laptop sales begin, but support plan is nonexistentHave them call the following tech support...http://www.illwillpress.com/tech.htmlSo how is this differentSo how is this different from traditional support, where you call Pashi in India, and he reads a script to you in bad English?This is a great program but...Always the case. I...; Tags: OPEN SOURCE, XO-laptop sale, G1G1, XO-laptop; Discussion threads 2007-11-13
Negroponte's laptop finally in production: Those $100 $200 laptops from Nick Negroponte are finally rolling off the production line at Quanta, the Taiwanese manufacturer of One Laptop Per Child's breakthrough XO laptops. OLPC says Quanta is currently producing 15,000 per month but that those numbers will rise. ...; Tags: Laptop Computer, One Laptop Per Child Project, Negroponte, XO, Wayan Vota, G1G1, Richard Koman; Blog posts 2007-11-07

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OLPC stuck key issue drawing attention: The so-called "stuck-key issue" being reported by OLPC XO owners is gaining a fair amount of media attention as the first large-scale deployments in Mongolia and Peru are taking off. First reported about four months ago by buyers from the OLPC Give One Get One program, the problem, according...; Tags: One Laptop Per Child Project, Christopher Dawson; Blog posts 2008-04-20

Netscape+eulogy%3A+Use+Flock+and+Firefox: Netscape+eulogy%3A+Use+Flock+and+FirefoxAOL is like Caroline Kennedy's Boeing777...with everything you would expectFairwell Netscape we can only believe you will find a new home in some preprietary search as part of many midline and large corporations handling a multitude of employees. have fun at your New! job.RE: Netscape eulogy: Use Flock and FirefoxWhat's...; Tags: Web browsers, E-mail clients, Microsoft Windows Vista, Netscape Communications Corp., Mozilla Firefox, SeaMonkey, America Online Inc.; Discussion threads 2008-02-22
Have you gotten one yet?: Businessweek and ZDNet Asia reported earlier this week that many customers who participated in OLPC's Give One Get One (G1G1) program are still waiting for the Get One to materialize. The idea behind the G1G1 initiative was that donors could, for $400, purchase both an XO computer for themselves...; Tags: Laptop Computer, One Laptop Per Child Project, XO, Notebooks, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Christopher Dawson; Blog posts 2008-01-31
OLPC campaign nets $35 million; 100,000 units go to emerging markets: OLPC campaign nets $35 million; 100,000 units go to emerging marketsYes, it was a GREAT program, and will get lots of computers into the handsof technical people that will help with the project. I would like to see it extended and continued. We would also like to see accessories such...; Tags: emerging market, One Laptop Per Child project, Intel Corp., computer; Discussion threads 2008-01-07
Larry Dignan loans me his Kindle: Fellow blogger, Larry Dignan, loaned me his Amazon Kindle so that I could look at it from an Ed Tech perspective (thanks, by the way, Larry - I promise I'm not downloading the complete works of Neal Stephenson and charging them to your Amazon account). Is this yet another...; Tags: Larry Dignan, E-book, Textbook, Amazon Kindle, E-books, Personal Technology, Christopher Dawson; Blog posts 2007-12-06
XP on OLPC: Microsoft's gambit to stay in the emerging market conversation: XP on OLPC: Microsoft's gambit to stay in the emerging market conversationAll this work on a deprecated OS?I thought Vista was the future? Active development to port XP, let's face it, a stable but very outdated OS onto the OLPC. At some point, MS will have to accept...; Tags: Operating systems, emerging market, Apple OS X, Windows/Linux, Microsoft Windows XP, Microsoft Corp., One Laptop Per Child project, operating system, Microsoft Windows Vista, software; Discussion threads 2007-12-06
With Peru sale, is OLPC on the right track?: Things are looking up for One Laptop Per Child. After a boffo lauch to the Give 1 Get 1 program, OLPC has landed an order from Peru for 260,000 units of the XO laptop, The Boston Globe reports. The order had been expected for some time but...; Tags: Peru, One Laptop Per Child Project, Negroponte, Government, Richard Koman; Blog posts 2007-12-03
Peru signs up for 260,000 OLPC laptops: Peru signs up for 260,000 OLPC laptopsPeru signs up for 260,000 OLPC laptopsThe great OLPC scam. Negroponte made exclusive deals with only the U.S. to charge customers twice the amount of money for only 1 laptop. Basically he expected the U.S. to fund all this and excluded all...; Tags: One Laptop Per Child project, OLPC Laptops, laptop computer; Discussion threads 2007-12-03
OLPC on sale through 31 December: OLPC on sale through 31 DecemberToo bad the Intel Classmate isn't available ...... to purchase. It's capabilities are far more attractive -- and maybe then I could wrench my two-year-old Dell laptop out of the hands of my eight-year-old! {8^)That's 10,000 machines per day, ChristopherChristopher, during G1G1, $399...; Tags: One Laptop Per Child project, laptop computer; Discussion threads 2007-11-26
OLPC on sale through 31 December: Citing unexpected demand (apparently on the order of $2 million dollars a day in sales), OLPC has announced an extension of its Give One Get One program through the end of the year. The $2 million/day figure equates to 5000 10,000 laptops per day, 2500 5000 (sorry, folks...This math...; Tags: Program, Laptop Computer, One Laptop Per Child Project, Notebooks, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Christopher Dawson; Blog posts 2007-11-25
How employers can pay the OLPC forward and why the OLPC project needs digital badges: How employers can pay the OLPC forward and why the OLPC project needs digital badgesDavid, you need to get Marc Wagner off of Christopher Dawson's blog. Theyare completely different styles, and it is not clearly marked. You need to let people like Mark express their opinions, but they should do...; Tags: One Laptop Per Child project, OLPC forward, OLPC Project; Discussion threads 2007-11-14
Buying the XO laptop: The shipping may sting: Buying the XO laptop: The shipping may stingTrue, but...I'll admit that I was surprised by the shipping cost -- it's a substantial fraction of the cost of the machine.OTOH, I suspect that partly reflects the fact that free shipping simply gets folded into the overhead for most companies, and I...; Tags: XO-laptop, Shipping, Buying, T-Mobile; Discussion threads 2007-11-13
Will you G1G1?: OLPC opened up sales yesterday for its Give One Get One (G1G1) program, through which, for $423.95, you can buy an XO for yourself or some child in your life and a child in a developing country, subsidizing government programs to purchase these laptops for kids. Of...; Tags: Child, Kid, Government, Microsoft Windows, Sales Strategy, Free Trade, Operating Systems, Software, Sales, Finance, Christopher Dawson; Blog posts 2007-11-13
XO laptop sales begin, but support plan is nonexistent: Distributing laptops to kids around the world was supposed to be a government initiative. But Nicholas Negroponte has largely failed to sign up any foreign governments to purchase millions of One Laptop Per Child's XO laptops. Today the effort moved to the world of consumer sales...; Tags: Sales, Laptop Computer, One Laptop Per Child Project, XO, Notebooks, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Richard Koman; Blog posts 2007-11-12