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  • May
  • 21
  • 2008

Will the OLPC 2.0 program actually survive?

The One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) project has revealed plans for its next-generation mobile computing device. It will have a clamshell form-factor with two 16:9 touch-screen displays and no hardware keyboard, it is expected to sell for $75 per unit and will be available in 2010. That’s the hope, at least. Will the projects troubled history repeat?

Those problems will hopefully be worked out by the time OLPC 2.0 is launched. OLPC founder Nicholas Negroponte says that the clamshell design of the new laptop is modeled after a book. It will be smaller and lighter than the XO and can also be…

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  • May
  • 16
  • 2008

$100 laptop’ nonprofit now teamed with Microsoft - AP

BOSTON (AP) ? The One Laptop Per Child project is about to find out whether Microsoft Corp., a rival the nonprofit group once derided, is the solution to its problems in spreading inexpensive portable computers to schoolchildren.

Nicholas Negroponte, the founder of the laptop project — which aims to produce $100 computers but now sells them at $188 — acknowledged that having Windows as an option could reassure education ministers who have hesitated to…

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