I finally made it to the Marvell booth Saturday night to get a look at the green and white wonder boy.
Entries Tagged as 'olpc'
OLPC XO-1.75 goes ARM, price drops to $188
January 9th, 2011 · 4 Comments · conferences & trade shows, hardware news
Marvell, OLPC announce partnership & $5.6m grant
October 4th, 2010 · 2 Comments · hardware news
Xconomy.com are reporting that Marvell will give the OLPC Foundation $5,6 million dollars in grant money so OLPC can take the lead in developing the new XO-3 tablet. We’ve known since May that they were cooperating, and I’m glad they decided to push ahead . Negroponte also promised that the an early version of the [...]
Negroponte offere OLPC tech to India’s $35 tablet program
August 2nd, 2010 · 2 Comments · hardware news, Indian Tablet
There was a rather interesting story on the GoodGearGuide blog Saturday: The nonprofit organization One Laptop Per Child wants to join forces to help develop the Indian government’s planned US$35 tablet. In a congratulatory note to the government, OLPC Chairman Nicholas Negroponte said the world needs the $35 tablet, and he offered the country full [...]
Free PDF – Reading on the OLPC laptop
July 23rd, 2010 · 1 Comment · free ebooks
I came across a useful ebook the other day. It’s titled Reading and Sugar, and it’s by James Simmons (I think). Sorry for being vague; I’ve had a number of crashes this week and one crash took my sources with it. But I did find this on the IAEP mailing list. I’d really be grateful [...]
India announce $35 tablet, OLPC folks nowhere to be found
July 23rd, 2010 · 3 Comments · hardware news, Indian Tablet
Details are sparse on this tablet, but we do know that the Indian Gov’t. have been working on low cost devices for several years now. You might recall that last year they announced a low cost tablet (which never was produced, so far as I can tell). At this time we don’t know the specs, [...]
OLPC promises $75 tablet for CES 2011
May 27th, 2010 · No Comments · hardware rumors
One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) founder Nicholas Negroponte has promised to PCWorld that he would demo the XO-3 tablet prototype at CES 2011. “At CES we will show a tablet that can be and will be used for children probably in the developed world,” Negroponte said Tuesday. “It will allow us to start testing many [...]
OLPC & Pixel Qi Announce cross-license deal
March 30th, 2010 · No Comments · hardware news
From the press release: The One Laptop per Child Foundation (OLPC), a nonprofit organization whose mission is to help provide every child in the world access to a modern education, and Pixel Qi Corporation, an innovator in high-performance, low-power displays, have signed a permanent and royalty-free cross-licensing agreement that will allow both organizations to deliver [...]
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