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[News] Eee PC Offers Gets Better, OLPC Keepe Delivering in Large Numbers

  • Subject: [News] Eee PC Offers Gets Better, OLPC Keepe Delivering in Large Numbers
  • From: Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2008 15:15:08 +0000
  • Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy
  • Organization: Netscape / schestowitz.com
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French tempted with €199 Eee PC HSDPA bundle

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| French ordinateuristes can now buy Asus' elfin Eee PC with integrated HSDPA 
| 3G, courtesy of local carrier SFR. 
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http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2008/01/21/france_sfr_eee_pc_3g/

Interview: OLPC's Michail Bletsas Part 2 [of 2]

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| In spite of the initial nearly-universal acclaim of the One Laptop Per Child 
| (OLPC) project, critics were quick to point out what they perceived as flaws 
| in the organization the moment that the plan became a reality.  
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http://www.gearlog.com/2008/01/interview_olpcs_michail_bletsa_1.php


Recent:

OLPC in Ethiopia

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| Italian Prime Minister Romano Prodi has confirmed (last November) his 
| commitment of giving 50,000 laptops to Ethiopia. The importance of the 
| funding is its exemplary nature - it is model for other European countries 
| and the EU itself to follow.   
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http://olpc.tv/2008/01/20/olpc-in-ethiopia-2/


Related:

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


Africa's digital poster child [Intel's illegal dumping]

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| [Classmates in Nigeria]
|
| The renovation has been paid for by the government and Intel, with the chip 
| firm covering the majority of the costs of the technology. 
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7115218.stm

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