I'm at Venture Summit East, listening to Nicholas Negroponte talk about One Laptop Per Child. He said that making it a non-profit company gave him two advantages over making the company a for-profit firm: 1) "I was able to attract better talent than I could...
Negroponte on OLPC's Next StepsMore on OLPCI should add that OLPC is also looking at how to get more involved in parts of the U.S. education market. Negroponte talked some about its efforts here, and noted that "there are more school districts in the U.S. than in the rest...
May 23--The much-talked about 'One Laptop Per Child' project OLPC has sparked off yet another controversy. A big one actually! Nicholas Negroponte, founder and leader of the OLPC project and professor at MIT, has said in a TV interview that he woul May 23--The much-talked about...
Marketing Flaws in One Laptop per ChildRE: Marketing Flaws in One Laptop per ChildI think there are management problems at OLPC but I think currently it's the best project of its type. As long as the management steers the project towards the ultimate goal of equipping young students in developing...
As a brilliant and humanitarian idea, you can't beat Nicholas Negroponte's vision to create a $100 laptop for children in developing countries, which could be purchased and distributed by private or public benefactors. But despite a few early wins, governments have been slow in snapping up these...
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. & SANTA CLARA, Calif. -- Intel and One Laptop per Child OLPC today announced they have agreed to work together to bring the benefits of technology to the developing world through synergy of their respective programs. Under the agreement, Intel and OLPC will explore collaborations involving technology and...
MIAMI -- One Laptop Per Child, a non-profit started by MIT media lab founder Nicholas Negroponte, has selected Miami-based Brightstar, a technology distribution and supply company, to ... MIAMI -- One Laptop Per Child, a non-profit started by MIT media lab founder Nicholas Negroponte, has selected...
SUNRISE, Fla., Dec 14, 2005 CCNMatthews via COMTEX -- Nortel (NYSE:NT)(TSX:NT) announced today that it has become a corporate member of the "One Laptop per Child" OLPC initiative. OLPC, a non-profit organization, was formed earlier this SUNRISE, Fla., Dec 14, 2005 CCNMatthews via COMTEX -- Nortel...
SUNRISE, Fla. -- Nortel (NYSE:NT)(TSX:NT) announced today that it has become a corporate member of the "One Laptop per Child" OLPC initiative. OLPC, a non-profit organization, was formed earlier this year by Nicholas Negroponte and other faculty members from the MIT Media Lab.
RALEIGH, N.C. -- Red Hat (NASDAQ: RHAT), the world's leading provider of open source to the enterprise, today formally announced its founding corporate membership in the One Laptop per Child OLPC initiative. The OLPC project aims to create and distribute inexpensive laptop computers to students around the globe for educational...
DAVOS, Switzerland -- One Laptop per Child OLPC, a non-profit organization with the goal of providing children in developing nations with laptop computers, today announced that it will team with the United Nations Development Programme UNDP to host an Open House event during the World Economic Forum on Friday at...
Jul 16, 2007 (The Australian Financial Review - ABIX via COMTEX) -- Global computer giant Intel has joined the One Laptop per Child project. The project aims to give poor children around the world access to laptops for educational purposes. Intel has Jul 16, 2007 (The...
AsiaInfo Services 04-19-2007 Intel to Launch Low-price Notebook in China BEIJING, Apr 19, 2007 SinoCast via COMTEX -- Intel is to serve up low-price notebooks oriented to Chinese students since the third quarter of 2007, confirmed a spokesman AsiaInfo Services...
MICROSOFT, A LONGTIME HOLDOUT IN PARTNERING WITH THE computing and education project One Laptop per Child OLPC, recently announced plans to offer Windows on the nonprofit group's laptops. OLPC's $200 machines previously ran exclusively on the Linux operating system, a freely distributed alternative to Windows. The first of the OLPC's...
FRAMINGHAM, Mass. -- Worldwide PC shipments are projected to grow by 15.2% in 2008 to reach 310 million units, according to IDC's Worldwide Quarterly PC Tracker. Growth will remain in double-digits through 2010, followed by high single-digit growth through 2012, boosting annual shipments to over 472 million...
Microsoft Looks Beyond Low-Cost Laptops Microsoft is looking beyond ultra-low-cost laptops to cheaper alternatives such as smartphones and shared computing in the drive to give people in developing nations a way to communicate and access the Internet. The world's largest software maker has...
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