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- XP on XO: Negroponte has lost his bearings
- At ZD's Hardware 2.0 blog, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes cites this quote from former OLPC developer Ivan Krstic about Nicholas Negroponte's rapidly shifting mission statement: In fact, I quit when Nicholas told me — and not just me — that learning was never part of the mission....
- Tags: Education, Team, Microsoft Windows XP, Laptop Computer, One Laptop Per Child Project, Nicholas Negroponte, Team Management, Management, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-05-16
- Post script to an Ed Tech laptop rant
- Post script to an Ed Tech laptop rantAFAIKMicrosoft is providing with a reference implementation for these kind of machines.Message has been deleted.RE: Post script to an Ed Tech laptop rantIt needed someone with balls and vision to even get near pulling this project off - and in one sense it's...
- Tags: Blogging, Microsoft Corp., Ed Tech laptop, Post Script, Ed Tech, Nicholas Negroponte, blog, laptop computer
- Discussion threads 2008-01-10
- OLPCs to be dual-boot Linux/Windows machines? Why?
- Nicholas Negroponte, the head of the One Laptop Per Child OLPC is speaking for Microsoft again. Negroponte was quoted by Computerworld as saying Microsoft is working with the OLPC team on a dual-boot Windows XP/Linux XO laptop. Microsoft officials have not publicly acknowledged any...
- Tags: Microsoft Corp., Laptop Computer, One Laptop Per Child Project, Nicholas Negroponte, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software, Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2008-01-09
- OLPC caught in Intel vs AMD crossfire
- Nicholas Negroponte, the man behind the One Laptop Per Child project and who aims to distribute millions of laptops to kids in developing countries, sees the project as being caught in the crossfire between chip giants Intel and AMD.Negroponte says Intel is selling its competing cut-price laptop called "Classmate" for...
- Tags: OLPC, Intel, AMD
- Blog posts 2007-05-21
- OLPC founder finally faces a 'grim reality'
- OLPC to run Windows? Say it ain’t so! was the headline and so far reader reaction is mixed. Adrian Kingsley-Hughes reports $175 OLPC deals blow to open source, guarantees Microsoft’s continued dominance. From the beginning, the One Laptop per Child foundation, the brainchild of MITs Nicholas Negroponte, has...
- Tags: Education Technology, Emerging Tech, Funding, Hardware, K-12, Microsoft, Open Source
- Blog posts 2007-04-30
- Libya may be first buyer of $100 laptops
- The warming of relations with Libya and the U.S. has made inroads for nonprofits, including an agreement between the One Laptop Per Child OLPC project and the Libyan government to supply $100 laptops to all 1.2 million Libyan schoolchildren by June 2008, reports The New York Times. ...
- Tags: Nicholas Negroponte
- Blog posts 2006-10-11
- Latest update on Negroponte's $100 laptop
- After by master of ceremonies, futurist Paul Saffo, noted that I was blogging at the AMD Global Vision Conference--to ensure that speakers didn’t say anything too controversial--Nicholas Negroponte took the stage to evangelize his One Laptop per Child non-profit, which got its first seed funding from AMD and the laptop...
- Tags: Nicholas Negroponte
- Blog posts 2006-09-19
- Gates disses $100 laptop (again)
- Gates once again let known his feelings of disdain for the $100 laptop, Nicholas Negroponte's proposed appropriate technology for the developing world. Gates dismissed the proposed machine's lack of hard disk, tiny screen and hand crank power supply. "If you are going to go...
- Tags: Gate, laptop computer
- Blog posts 2006-03-16
- Macintosh: The right model for the $100 laptop
- Nicholas Negroponte wants to distribute a supercheap laptop with a hand crank, bright colors and Linux OS all over the developing world. He thinks he can sell them to governments for $100. Bill Gates is saying, 'Great, but how are those laptops going to get online in the developing world?'...
- Tags: Nicholas Negroponte, network
- Blog posts 2006-02-03
- Gates 'secretely bitter' about $100 laptop
- Nicholas Negroponte's proposed $100 laptop has won him the enmity of Bill Gates, according to John Markoff's article in the New York Times. The founder of MIT's Media Lab has been working full-bore on the idea of a laptop cheap enough to be distributed free to the developing world's...
- Tags: Nicholas Negroponte
- Blog posts 2006-01-30
- The $100 laptop: What are the odds?
- Being the skeptic that I am, and having read, re-read, and re-read AGAIN David Berlind's article "Move over Microsoft, Dell. The $100 PC cometh. From MIT", I have to wonder if Nicholas Negroponte's vision is just that -- a grand vision of One Laptop per Child (the name of his...
- Tags: laptop computer, Nicholas Negroponte
- Blog posts 2005-10-05
- $100 laptops for kids in developing world
- Speaking at MIT's Emerging Technologies conference Nicholas Negroponte announced detailed specs for his $100 computer, and said that his nonprofit One Laptop per Child is in negotiations with five developing countries - Brazil, China, Thailand, Egypt and South Africa - to provide the machines. ...
- Tags: Nicholas Negroponte, Developing
- Blog posts 2005-09-28
Additional Resources
- On the Linux laptop the bundle is all
- In a Linux laptop, the bundle is all. by Dana Blankenhorn
- Tags: Linux Laptop, Laptop Computer, Linux, OpenOffice, Open Source, UNIX, Operating Systems, Software, Office Suites, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-10-10
- Netbook returns blamed on Linux 'teething problems'
- Higher return rates for Linux-based netbooks don't necessarily reflect badly on the open-source operating system, according to Ubuntu backer Canonical. The return rate on Linux-powered netbooks may be higher than that for Windows netbooks, but this isn't necessarily a bad thing for Linux, according to Canonical. ...
- Tags: Ubuntu, Linux, UNIX, Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows, Open Source, Software, Matthew Broersma ZDNet.co.uk, netbook, Windows XP, MSI Wind, Asus Eeee
- News items 2008-10-10
- Consumers score a partial win against Walmart
- Walmart has done a 180 on its earlier decision to pull the plug on its DRM servers (thereby locking customers' music collection to whatever PC it happened to be on at the time) and decided to keep the DRM servers running - for now. Important Information About Your Digital Music Purchases ...
- Tags: Wal-Mart Stores Inc., Digital-rights Management, Server, Digital Rights Management (DRM), Digital Media, Security, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes
- Blog posts 2008-10-10
- Is OpenOffice good enough?
- Yes. OK, obviously there's more to this story than my tongue-in-cheek answer. This came up after one of our supercool, power user secretaries (who is an Office 2003/2007 wiz) ran a training session for the other secretaries in the district. The other secretaries are largely...
- Tags: Secretary, Training, OpenOffice, Open Source, Office Suites, Software, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2008-10-10
- News to know: Apple's $800 laptop; MS and Mac Patch Days; Vista Home for business
- Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Ryan Naraine: Mac OS X Patch Day: 40 security flaws fixed MS Patch Tuesday heads-up: 11 bulletins, 4 critical Ed Bott: Look who's buying...
- Tags: Apple Macintosh, Microsoft Windows Vista, Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., Laptop Computer, H-1B, Notebooks, Human Resources, Labor Relations, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, David Grober
- Blog posts 2008-10-10
- High Definition 1080p Multimedia Screen Saver (zip)
- Multimedia screen saver capable of displaying high definition WMV/HD video, as well as other popular computer video formats, and wide variety of audio files. Create a play list and display video and audio files in order of selection or at random. Audio files display visualizations during playback. Choose from six...
- Tags: Multimedia, Video, 1080p, Video Format, RAM-Shock Software, Corporate Communications, Marketing
- Software downloads 2008-10-10
- Stereoscope Theatre (exe)
- Travel back in time with a look at life in Turn-of-the-20th-Century America with this fun, musical, 3-D slideshow ebook download for Windows. Features a background soundtrack of Scott Joplin ragtime classics. Big, beautiful vintage stereoview scenes come to life on your computer screen with the help of red-blue 3-D glasses....
- Tags: 3D, Vintage Antique Classics, E-books, Personal Technology
- Software downloads 2008-10-10
- LogMaster (zip)
- LogMaster allows you to secretly monitor anyone you want. LogMaster takes screenshots of your client at a pace you select, blocks programs you specify, can lock down your computer at a time you specify, and will log when your clients computer logs on and when a lockdown is executed. This...
- Tags: Computer, BLANKsoft, LogMaster, Productivity, Monitors & Displays, Hardware, Components
- Software downloads 2008-10-10
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