Teens Bring Laptops to South African Children
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| Two teenage sisters from Boston, along with their family and school, have
| joined forces with an American non-profit organization to provide laptop
| computers to underprivileged children in South Africa.
|
| [...]
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| The XO has no hard drive or fan, so should not suck up dust and dirt,
| according to Weber. It runs on the Linux operating system and stretches
| wireless networks using Mesh technology.
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http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=88922574
Exploring Etoys on the OLPC XO
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| Etoys is one of the most interesting activities included on the OLPC XO
| laptops distributed during the Give One Get One program late last year, which
| gave North Americans a first look at the controversial laptop. The XO's
| unique vocabulary -- Etoys as an activity instead of application --
| underscores the fact that the XO is designed as an educational tool for the
| classroom.
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http://www.linux.com/feature/130014
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One Laptop Per Child to begin SA pilot
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| Although the roll-out date for One Laptop Per Child’s (OLPC)
| low-cost machine has been put back until October 2007, OLPC is
| using a limited number of trial machines to run pilots to gain
| experience of how it will work in the local context.
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http://www.tectonic.co.za/view.php?src=rss&id=1593
One Laptop sighted in Cape Town
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| The laptop, a beta version of the final product, sports a green
| casing, a liquid-proof keyboard, a couple of dust covers for the
| ports and the Sugar operating system which is based on Fedora Core 6.
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http://www.tectonic.co.za/view.php?src=rss&id=1466
Debate widens over over deploying computers in the developing world
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| The controversy boiled over on Saturday at a meeting where Craig
| Barrett, chairman of Intel, squared off with Nicholas Negroponte,
| the former director of the MIT Media Laboratory and head of the
| nonprofit organization One Laptop Per Child, which is focusing
| on the 1.2 billion children in the developing world.
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http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/01/28/business/cheap.php
SA Government's OSS plans revealed
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| Migration of current systems is also planned. This will be done in a phased
| approach, beginning with applications such as replacing MS Office with Open
| Office or KOffice and replacing Internet Explorer with Firefox. This will in
| time lead up to the operating system, replacing Windows with a Linux
| ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
| distribution. Migration to Apache for the running of government websites has
| ^^^^^^^^^^^^
| already occurred within a number of departments.
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http://www.tectonic.co.za/view.php?src=rss&id=1684
Related:
Laptop-Project Founder Faults Intel
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| Oscar Becerra Tresierra, general director for educational technology at
| Peru's Ministry of Education, says that after the country recently agreed to
| buy 272,500 OLPC laptops for primary-school students, an Intel sales
| ^^^^^^^^^^^
| representative tried "to scare us" by claiming the machines and their power
| ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
| adapters didn't work. "I don't feel very happy about it," he said. "We
| wouldn't like the project to fail because somebody is spreading gossip about
| ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
| the machines that doesn't turn out to be true."
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http://online.wsj.com/article/SB119948070480568405.html?mod=googlenews_wsj
Laptop Project Blames Intel for Breakup
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| Negroponte said Intel even tried to undo a deal One Laptop had already sealed
| in Peru by citing flaws in the One Laptop "XO" machine and telling government
| ministers "we ought to know, because we are on the board." Such hostile
| comments were prohibited, Negroponte claimed, under the July peace treaty
| that brought Intel into the One Laptop Per Child camp.
|
| "I want to say we tried, but it was never a partnership," Negroponte
| said. "There's not one single thing in their contract or agreement that they
| lived up to."
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http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5hXa0O9XLMsWfaqt-sI9FqFy2IewgD8TVAD7OA
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
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
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