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- From the ashes of Geode, AMD brings Bobcat with 1:1 possibilities
- OLPC's first laptop, the XO has been both praised and criticized for many things. Perhaps most significant was its incredibly low power consumption, critical for use in areas with very limited electrical capacity. Key to this power consumption was the AMD Geode processor, an utterly anemic piece of...
- Tags: Power Consumption, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., One Laptop Per Child Project, Processors, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2009-11-13
- Another push for netbooks in Africa
- Not another nail in the coffin of OLPC, but rather another validation of the concept. The netbook market would not be where it is today without OLPC.Agreednt.RE: Another push for netbooks in AfricaI think it shows that OLPC has the right idea, but their execution was lacking. One the...
- Tags: Netbooks, nettops & MIDs, One Laptop Per Child project, netbook
- Discussion threads 2009-09-23
- Could One Laptop Per Child be a bad thing?
- Or roadsOr how about roads so farmers can get there goods to the markets cheaper? The one laptop per kid is such a scam. Why should kids get cheap laptops overs small business owners. Who would be more productive. Um track sales, write, write e-mail, do books. I am so...
- Tags: One Laptop Per Child project
- Discussion threads 2009-09-10
- Could One Laptop Per Child be a bad thing?
- Client hardware is not the problem. OLPC has proven that hardware can be super-cheap. Taiwanese Netbook makers have taken that idea and run with it. The real problem is connectivity. by Dana Blankenhorn
- Tags: Hardware, One Laptop Per Child Project, Client Hardware, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2009-09-10
- The new Asus e-reader looks a lot like the OLPC XO 2.0
- Dual touch screens? On-screen keyboards? Interestingly, this sounds an awful lot like OLPC 2.0, doesn't it? Since Asus whipped into the netbook market following in the XO's footsteps, that's hardly surprising. by Christopher Dawson
- Tags: E-reader, ASUS, One Laptop Per Child Project, Keyboards, Netbooks, Nettops & MIDs, Hardware, Peripherals, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2009-09-08
- While I'm away...Kindlenomics and OLPC revisited
- While I'm away...Kindlenomics and OLPC revisitedit will soon be herethe forthcoming apple tablet will deliver all you wish for and imagine that: it will even come with a colour screen! and you will all not like it here at zdnet because it is not open!RE: While I'm away...Kindlenomics and OLPC...
- Tags: Notebooks, Kindlenomics, One Laptop Per Child project
- Discussion threads 2009-07-30
- While I'm away...Kindlenomics and OLPC revisited
- Since my wife is 6 months pregnant and my mom is visiting from Seattle, we've decided to take a night away while said mom watches the kids. As a result, you get one more repost. I'll be back tomorrow, recharged after a bed and breakfast getaway; it will...
- Tags: Student, Hardware, Textbook, One Laptop Per Child Project, Kindle, Kindroid, XO 2.0, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2009-07-30
- Don't hold off on summer purchases for CrunchPads
- I have to admit that I'm completely intrigued by the forthcoming CrunchPad, brainchild of TechCrunch founder Michael Arrington. I asked this weekend if it would be an Ed Tech game changer, and, quite frankly, I think this has the potential to be the biggest thing since the OLPC XO....
- Tags: Netbook, One Laptop Per Child Project, Netbooks, Nettops & MIDs, Tablets, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2009-07-06
- Is Apple going to get some security help from OLPC?
- Is Apple going to get some security help from OLPC?Security is not a function of popularity.Have a seat and listen to yet another stupid analogy.A shipping company has a problem with their boats sinking. It has 300 ships. A smaller shipping company has only 3 ships and none...
- Tags: Operating systems, Apple Inc., One Laptop Per Child project, shipping company, security, Apple Mac OS X
- Discussion threads 2009-05-13
- Is Apple going to get some security help from OLPC?
- Until recently, Apple has enjoyed relative immunity from malware. It simply didn't make sense for developers to create spyware, viruses, and the like for an operating system. Windows devotees were happy to point out that this was largely a function of market share rather than any special system...
- Tags: Security, Apple Inc., One Laptop Per Child Project, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2009-05-13
- Apple snags ex-OLPC security chief
- Former director of security architecture at One Laptop per Child OLPC Ivan Krstic has joined Apple to help thwart hacker attacks against the Mac operating system. Krstic, a well-respected innovator who designed the Bitfrost security...
- Tags: Operating System, Apple Inc., One Laptop Per Child Project, Security, Ryan Naraine
- Blog posts 2009-05-13
- South Carolina's OLPC initiative: money well-spent?
- South Carolina's OLPC initiative: money well-spent?indeed well spentNothing dying about OLPC or olpc, upper or lower case. 1 million kids have XO laptops in 31 countries and 19 languages, with another million headed too them. The results have been nothing less than complete social change. If Rwanda can 20% of...
- Tags: One Laptop Per Child project, OLPC initiative, XO-2
- Discussion threads 2009-05-13
- South Carolina's OLPC initiative: money well-spent?
- South Carolina is looking to revive the dying OLPC brand by providing as many as 50,000 students with little PCs. According to OStatic, In order to receive a laptop, children need to give a small monetary donation -- the project coordinators say a dollar or two...
- Tags: South Carolina, Laptop Computer, One Laptop Per Child Project, Notebooks, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2009-05-13
- OLPC drops AMD for Via chip
- OLPC drops AMD for Via chipDoes anyone still really care about OLPC?Seriously.Intel/Via/AMD... first this platform... then that one.Get you s*** together decide on a platform, be it ARM or x86 or whatever, and stick to it.This is like a 3 ring circus with different generations of machines that will be...
- Tags: Semiconductors, Network technology, One Laptop Per Child project, chip, Advanced Micro Devices Inc.
- Discussion threads 2009-04-20
- Could Zeebo be the next OLPC?
- Could Zeebo be the next OLPC?3G..g..g..gone. Wimax taking over.Phone companies will desperately do anything to lock people into overpriced 3G contracts.Meanwhile, check out Clear Wimax in Portland and soon to roll out elsewhere. Internet, phone, streaming video...the works...all for one low unlimited price.And it's real Internet, not...
- Tags: Wi-Fi, Wireless and Mobility, WiMAX, goodbye, One Laptop Per Child project
- Discussion threads 2009-03-24
- Could Zeebo be the next OLPC?
- Zeebo, a low-powered game console that uses 3G wireless networks to download content and access updates, has been getting quite a bit of attention. Billed as the "fourth console" (after the Wii, Xbox, and PS3) and aimed at emerging markets, Zeebo is simply supposed to be a gaming machine....
- Tags: Game, Console, One Laptop Per Child Project, Zeebo, 3G, Internet, Wireless And Mobility, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2009-03-24
- The XO-2 is going Embedded RISC? So will everyone else!
- Yesterday, OLPC project founder Nicholas Negroponte indicated that their next generation XO-2 will almost certainly eschew it's current x86-based design and move towards one that is based on the ARM, the most common embedded RISC architecture in the world. It's used in over a billion cell...
- Tags: RISC, Mobile, Intel X86, Mobile Computing, CPU, One Laptop Per Child Project, Chip, XO-2, Diamondville, Chipsets, Advertising & Promotion, Processors, Semiconductors, Wireless And Mobility, Hardware, Components, Marketing, Jason Perlow
- Blog posts 2009-03-13
- Will Microsoft port Windows to an Arm-based OLPC laptop?
- Will Microsoft port Windows to an Arm-based OLPC laptop?It's called Windows Mobile/WindowsCEIt's a lightweight subset of Windows and it runs on ARM processors. What they need to do is expand it because it's limited to 64MB max image size with apps.Doubtfull.If they port Windows to ARM it will not be...
- Tags: Netbooks, nettops & MIDs, Operating systems, Processors, laptop computer, Most Windows app, ARM, One Laptop Per Child project, netbook, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2009-03-12
- Will Microsoft port Windows to an Arm-based OLPC laptop?
- OLPC chief Nicholas Negroponte is hinting that the OLPC project is leaning strongly toward dumping x86 processors in favor of lower-power Arm-based ones for the next-generation XO-2 laptops. There's one problem: At least as Arm and Windows currently exist, a full version of Windows is unlikely to load on an...
- Tags: Microsoft Corp., Laptop Computer, One Laptop Per Child Project, Arm, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software, Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2009-03-12
- Analyst: OLPC won't draw global PC makers
- Analyst: OLPC won't draw global PC makersAll I can say is ...OLPC and Novell were warned. OLPC, R.I.P next to M$ bob.How the saying goes, a hard head makes a soft arse!^o^$12 computer is already availablePlaypower.org is making multi-lingual learning games on a $12 computer that is already hugely...
- Tags: One Laptop Per Child project
- Discussion threads 2009-02-27
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