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- (Photos: A kid-tested XO laptop)
- (Photos: A kid-tested XO laptop)Just wondering...But how did she like the XO laptops? Did she give any thoughts on the interfaces and programs for each version?
- Discussion threads 2008-10-27
- (Photos: A kid-tested XO laptop)
- (Photos: A kid-tested XO laptop)So what's the verdict?Pictures by themselves really don't tell this story. What was Ella's opinion? After all if you're going to break the kid in early on product testing, you've got to do more than take her picture!RE: (Photos: A kid-tested XO laptop)I want to know...
- Discussion threads 2008-10-27
- Your XO laptop is about to land
- Your XO laptop is about to landExcellent newsNow we can get some honest(?) reviews from users and not from the marketeers. If they are good reviews, I might even try buying a couple (sending one to an underprivileged kid - perhaps even in the states!)Can't wait!We really need to...
- Discussion threads 2007-12-18
- 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...
- Discussion threads 2007-11-13
- 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...
- Discussion threads 2007-11-13
- OLPC's XO Laptop hits mass production
- OLPC's XO Laptop hits mass productionAre there any orders?Or are they hoping someone buys them?Rugged, low power data loggerThis thing would make an ideal data logger for one of the projects that I'm working on. I'm going to try to convince my boss to purchase one.RE: OLPC's XO Laptop...
- Discussion threads 2007-11-06
- Windows working to get Windows on XO laptops
- Windows working to get Windows on XO laptopsOh Boy!Nothing like the thought of a zillion cheap laptops throughout the third world country infested with virii and trojans... to hi-jack more and more... Windows is a flippin cancer!!!! When are the authorities going to realize this!too badfreedom.as i was trying...
- Discussion threads 2007-10-26
- It's not what their losing, it's what they stand to gain
- It's not what their losing, it's what they stand to gainIrony, anyone?An article about students' lack of skills in "readin', ritin', and 'rithmetic"....that contains a misspelling in the title! ;c)(Psst...it's "they're" not "their"...)Doing the good now with the moneyYou saifd: "In the third-world, it's about where the money can do...
- Discussion threads 2007-01-23
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- The new Asus e-reader looks a lot like the OLPC XO 2.0
- RE: The new Asus e-reader looks a lot like the OLPC XO 2.0I have a Kindle 1, even though I think they got many things right I still have a long list of things they could improve upon. If book readers are going to be used for school or...
- Discussion threads 2009-09-09
- News to know: Windows 7; Verizon; RightNow; Salesforce; Palm; HP
- Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET’s around-the-Web tech coverage. Ryan Naraine: Windows 7, Vista exposed to 'teardrop attack' Microsoft patches gaping Windows worm holes Firefox to run...
- Blog posts 2009-09-09
- 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
- Blog posts 2009-09-08
- No Apple tablet? Too bad, but not why you think
- A while back I wrote that an Apple Tablet, no matter how innovative or cool, would be a non-starter in education without educational content to drive adoption. Now we're hearing that it won't be introduced at Apple's September event, despite a nearly constant churn of rumors about its existence. ...
- Blog posts 2009-08-18
- Don't hold off on summer purchases for CrunchPads
- Don't hold off on summer purchases for CrunchPadsI'm waiting...Just wait... the rumors are out that there's an Apple touch pad similar to the CrunchPad...I am in no way saying the Apple branded Crunchpad will be better, have more features, or be any faster. I can say it'll probably have...
- Discussion threads 2009-07-07
- 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....
- Blog posts 2009-07-06
- Boycott Bacardi: Your Summer Rum Buying Guide
- Boycott Bacardi: Your Summer Rum Buying GuideAmerican Values?In which modern democracy, Israel included, would you find an ad-campaign like this inoffensive to women?You're way off-base there...1) You [i]do[/i] understand the difference between human beings and animals, don't you?2) It was an [i]Internet[/i] ad, launched on Facebook, and in...
- Discussion threads 2009-06-21
- Clinton has new tech advisor but State-driven projects will remain ineffective
- Let me offer this background before discussing the arrival of Alec Ross as a techno-diplomat at State. In 2004, I spent a couple months in Uganda, putting together the Uganda Digital Bookmobile. Inspired by the Internet Archive's Bookmobile Brad deGraf and I obtained funding from the World...
- Blog posts 2009-04-06
- Tic Tac Files 2.2 (Windows)
- Three thousand years ago we believed that the Earth is flat board and that's why the Tic Tac Toe (XO-game) has been played at the flat game board. Since 20th Century we have new four-dimensional model of reality, which conceptual framework ads time in space-time continuum - that's why our...
- Software downloads 2009-03-30
- 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
- The 7" Eee is going away? That's OK
- The 7" Eee really started it all for mainstream netbooks (if you don't count the OLPC XO) and it had some real appeal due to it's low price, very compact form factor, and incredibly light weight. All of these things made it attractive for the classroom, too, where little...
- Blog posts 2009-03-05
- Kindle 2.0: Give me a Classmate instead
- I've always wanted a Kindle. I read all the time and I'm always in the middle of five or six different books, utterly irritating my wife with the books I leave strewn about the house. I can only carry so many in my cargo pants, too (although the...
- Blog posts 2009-02-10
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