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Sugar on Windows looking inevitable: Now that Walter Bender has resigned from OLPC, Technology Review featured an article on the group's new president, Charles Kane. The article makes it very clear that OLPC, under the direction of Kane and Nicholas Negroponte, will definitely be seeking to deploy Windows on XOs and future products from...; Tags: One Laptop Per Child Project, Nicholas Negroponte, Bender, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software, Christopher Dawson; Blog posts 2008-05-04
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
OLPC's Negroponte seeks truce with Intel and deal with Microsoft: During a presentation at the Consumer Electronic Show this afternoon, One Laptop Per Child's Nicholas Negroponte didn't address the recent rift between Intel and his organization. Nicholas Negroponte and his baby, the OLPC Intel recently unhooked itself from the OLPC board of...; Tags: Microsoft Corp., Intel Corp., One Laptop Per Child Project, Nicholas Negroponte, Dan Farber; Blog posts 2008-01-09
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
Followup from Intel on the OLPC debacle: Followup from Intel on the OLPC debacleHow can anyone support Classmate?The Classmate reference design is such a worthless piece of kit, Intel obvioulsy rushed it out the door 6 months after the first prototypes of the OLPC were released over a year and a half ago. Since then the Classmate...; Tags: Intel Corp., One Laptop Per Child project, Classmate, Nicholas Negroponte; Discussion threads 2008-01-07

With Peru sale, is OLPC on the right track?: With Peru sale, is OLPC on the right track?If the goal is to educate third-world children ...... by providing them access to the tools of the Internet, then Nicholas Negroponte shouldn't care whose hardware and whose OS these students use.Okay, then......neither should MicroSoft. What a ridiculous remark. Negroponte is obviously...; Tags: One Laptop Per Child project, Nicholas Negroponte; Discussion threads 2007-12-04
OLPC finally bears fruit ...: Yesterday, eSchool News reported: Mere hours after news broke that Uruguay's government placed the first official order for the One Laptop Per Child initiative's XO, or "$100 laptop," chip giant Intel Corp. announces that Libya has ordered 150,000 of Intel's own version of the low-cost laptop, the...; Tags: Intel Corp., One Laptop Per Child Project, XO, Nicholas Negroponte, Marc Wagner; Blog posts 2007-11-06
Reality strikes nicholas negroponte: Reality strikes Nicholas Negroponteoh well ... "OLPC makes its entry into India - finally!""OLPC makes its entry into India - finally!"But as things have worked out, OLPC has already made an entry into India in the form of a pilot project in a rural primary school in a village in...; Tags: Linux, Operating systems, OPEN SOURCE, Microsoft Windows, Nicholas Negroponte, One Laptop Per Child project, primary school; Discussion threads 2007-11-01
The OLPC project and competition: I'd missed this post by George Ou where he claimed that Intel in combination with ASUS have slaughtered Nicholas Negroponte's One Laptop Per Child OLPC project with its Ultra-mobile "Eee PC." This reminded me of an article I read a few weeks back where Dr. Negroponte said Intel "should be...; Tags: Open Source, Software Infrastructure, Wired & Wireless; Blog posts 2007-06-14
Welcome Nicholas, to the world of unintended consequences: When the IBM PC was introduced to the public, in 1981, it sold for around $2500. By 2000, the cost was down to around $1500, and today, you can get a decent PC for under $500.Several years ago, Steve Balmer hinted at the possibility of a $100 PC geared...; Tags: K-12, Education Technology, DigitalDivide; Blog posts 2007-06-07
Negroponte takes on Intel: There's been a lot of reporting, today, on comments by Nicholas Negroponte, founder of the One Laptop Per Child project. Negoponte during an interview with 60 Minutes, broadcast on Sunday night, that Intel should be ashamed of itself for its tactics with regard to offering its Classmate PC. Both the...; Tags: semiconductors, notebooks, Intel, AMD; Blog posts 2007-05-21
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
Is Intel trying to torpedo the OLPC?: Nicholas Negroponte, head of the One Laptop Per Child project, blasted Intel for trying to usurp any momentum his effort is getting. Negroponte's argument delivered via 60 Minutes: Intel was pitching its wares and a cheap PC dubbed the Classmate to torpedo the OLPC effort, which needs 3 million orders...; Tags: Wired & Wireless, Web Technology, Personal Technology, Microsoft, Linux, Intel, Innovation, Hardware Infrastructure, Government, General, 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
$175 OLPC deals blow to open source, guarantees Microsoft's continued dominance: Yesterday Nicholas Negroponte, former director of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Media Lab now head of the nonprofit One Laptop Per Child project, gave analysts and journalists an update on the OLPC project. Two big changes were announced - the $100 OLPC is now the $175 OLPC, and...; Tags: In the news, Industry, Linux, Microsoft, Software, Thoughts; Blog posts 2007-04-27
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
India shuns One Laptop Per Child: India has essentially rejected Nicholas Negroponte's One Laptop Per Child project. India's Ministry of Human Resource Development HRD announced: "India must not allow itself to be used for experimentation with children in this area." The Times of India reports that the ministry based its rejection on...; Tags: Nicholas Negroponte, HRD; Blog posts 2006-07-27
At edtech conference, envisioning the future: The nation's largest educational technology trade show, the National Education Computing Conference NECC has concluded its run in San Diego. An estimated 17,000 educators, administrators, and executives attended the three day event where empowering students through creative uses of technology was the overarching theme reports eSchool News. The keynote...; Tags: Nicholas Negroponte; Blog posts 2006-07-18
Computer Aid Intl: OLPC doesn't get it: The verdict is still out on the feasibility of the One Laptop Per Child, according to Tony Roberts, chief executive and founder of U.K. charity Computer Aid International, who criticized the program as having a "fundamental misunderstanding of the history of the IT industry," reports News.com Roberts, who...; Tags: OLPC, Nicholas Negroponte, Tony Roberts; Blog posts 2006-06-22