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- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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....
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- Discussion threads 2009-02-27
- More signs of OLPC woe?
- More signs of OLPC woe?Just buy them $ 249.00 netbooks ....... and give them a real computer. The toy that was the OLPC is so over!OLPC - Who Cares?While it used to make nice sexy headlines for a school to say it was providing each child a laptop,...
- Discussion threads 2009-02-09
- More signs of OLPC woe?
- A number of outlets highlighted the removal of OLPC's "Give a School" small donation program from its website, giving rise to further concerns about its long-term plans in small markets. The Give a School program allowed donors to provide up to 100 XO laptops for small-scale deployments that have...
- Blog posts 2009-02-09
- OLPC to laptop makers: Use our design
- OLPC to laptop makers: Use our designRE: Hey Open Source come back -- Use our design"Bill Gates told CNET News that the "OLPC hasn't done that well" ..."Hence no ROI."... --the group said that it would be working with Microsoft to make a Windows variety of its XO laptop, ..."Anticipation...
- Discussion threads 2009-02-09
- OLPC XO 2.0 to follow Classmate model
- In a wide-ranging interview with Xconomy, Nicholas Negroponte and Charles Kane OLPC president discussed future directions for the company after this month's major layoffs. The take-home messages? Last year's Give One Get One program was a dismal failure. With almost $20 million in marketing (most...
- Blog posts 2009-01-30
- What OLPC has accomplished
- What OLPC has accomplishedOLPC was a successwith M$ inexorably sinking, it's time to focus on the other leg of the stool: hardware.Open the hardware design or go down in flames as M$ did.RE: What OLPC has accomplishedLight typewriter/laptop? You would have wanted an AlphaSmart (http://www.alphasmart.com) My old Pro...
- Discussion threads 2009-01-30
- What OLPC has accomplished
- My guess is that, again, a lot of people will benefit. OLPC may not be among them. But I'm also beginning to think that Negroponte doesn't care so much about that, and is more concerned with pushing technology history forward just a little bit. by Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2009-01-30
- AMD Geode won't be in XO-2
- Just a quick note this morning, that AMD will no longer be developing their Geode line of chips. This chip was the ultra-low voltage processor that powered the OLPC XO laptop and generally ran around 1W of power consumption (versus the 15W of other low-power alternatives offered by AMD)....
- Blog posts 2009-01-27
- What's next for OLPC?
- What's next for OLPC?I think they should get funded from the US govObama should stop rewarding his cronies from Freddie Mac and Mae and give some money from the TARP to OLPC and othere FOSS projects.Very good observations!! OLPC ignited the netbook segment, and they haveeverybody rethinking how to do...
- Discussion threads 2009-01-13
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