Cheap laptops project for poor countries draws big competition
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| A program to provide millions of low-cost laptops to students
| in poor countries is set to start production in September even
| as commercial competitors prepare to offer even cheaper models.
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http://www.turkishpress.com/news.asp?id=178233
Video: Inside One Laptop per Child
A couple of new technical videos...
http://linux.wordpress.com/2007/05/27/video-inside-one-laptop-per-child/
Related:
One Laptop per Child Organizes Game Jam to Create Free Video Games for the
World's Poorest Children
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| These machines will be rugged, Linux-based, and so energy efficient that
| hand-cranking alone will generate sufficient power for operation. Mesh
| networking will give many machines Internet access from one connection.
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http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/070524/20070524005151.html?.v=1
Negroponte says Intel should be "ashamed of itself"
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| He is furious that Intel's CEO Craig Barrett called the One Laptop a
| gadget. The Negroponte initiative is caught in the middle of a vicious
| fight between AMD and Intel, he said.
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http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=39733
One Laptop Per Child - Production Delays Caused By Microsoft, Intel?
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| I sincerely hope that no matter what the people who are running the
| OLPC project decide, that their project will continue and not get
| bogged down in a play of corporate greed and ambitions.
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http://www.lockergnome.com/nexus/blade/2007/04/28/one-laptop-per-child-production-delays-caused-by-microsoft-intel/
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