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[News] OLPC Technology to Reach Stores Soon

  • Subject: [News] OLPC Technology to Reach Stores Soon
  • From: Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Sat, 12 Jan 2008 03:51:08 +0000
  • Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy
  • Organization: Netscape / schestowitz.com
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New screen technology may hit stores Dec-designer

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| Computers and cell phones with screens that can be read in direct sunlight 
| could be on store shelves by the end of this year, the designer of the 
| breakthrough display technology said.  
| 
| The high-resolution monitors switch from color to black and white, allowing 
| the screens to be clearly viewed in direct sunlight, a feature unavailable in 
| current high-end laptop computers that cost thousands of dollars.  
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http://www.reuters.com/article/rbssTechMediaTelecomNews/idUSN1128857220080111?pageNumber=1


Related:

Designer of laptop for poor kids starts company

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| Jepsen invented a low-cost, low-power sunreadable screen while at the 
| foundation from 2005 to 2007. She also co-invented its power management 
| system.  
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http://www.reuters.com/article/marketsNews/idUKN1019897920080110?rpc=44


Intel-powered XO is too expensive and consumes too much power

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| 2 days before Intel CEO Paul Otellini would unveil the Classmate 2 or the 
| Intel-powered XO at the CES, Intel announced that they are quitting the OLPC 
| board.  
| 
| Intel claims that they are quitting because of Nicholas Negroponte wanting 
| them to stop the promotion of the Classmate/Eee to education in third world 
| countries, but I think that the real reason is that Intel does not have a 
| good enough processor for the OLPC project to use as an alternative to the 
| AMD Geode LX-700. Intel has not been able to develop a processor to match the 
| price, power consumption and performance requirements of the OLPC project. 
| Paul Otellini could have looked like a fool at the CES if he had to unveil an 
| Intel powered XO that was performing worse in terms of price and power 
| consumption compared to the AMD powered one.        
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http://charbax.com/2008/01/04/intel-diamondville-and-menlow-processors-not-low-costpower-enough/


Intel: doing the dirty on OLPC

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| Intel’s agreement with the OLPC Foundation included a ‘non disparagement’ 
| clause, under which Intel and One Laptop promised not to criticize each 
| other, according to Nicholas Negroponte in the latest article in the Wall 
| Street Journal.   
| 
| Still Intel tactics have violated that repeatedly to kill OLPC efforts in 
| Nigeria, Libya, Pakistan, India, China and Intel is also still trying to pull 
| those tactics in Mexico, Brazil.  
| This is simply disgracefull of Intel, scandalous.
| 
| But Negroponte has signed an agreement saying that he is not allowed to 
| criticize Intel, so he is not allowed to talk about these shameless tactics 
| even though Intel is the one violating the agreement.  
| 
| So only independant voices on the Internet can get those messages of truth 
| out about Intels tactics. 
| 
| In Nigeria, Intel came and donated 3000 laptops to counter OLPC efforts, then 
| sells 17 thousand Classmates to Nigeria at a loss. 
| 
| Then Microsoft corrupted Nigerian officials with 400 thousand dollars to 
| install Windows XP on those instead of Mandriva Linux. 
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http://www.p2pnet.net/story/14124

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