$100 XO Laptop Launches Buy One/Donate One Initiative!
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| One of our favorite humanitarian product designs, the $100 Laptop (One Laptop
| Per Child) is going BOGO! The “Buy one give one” program starts Monday
| November 12th and runs for 2 weeks only- just $399 buys one adorable laptop
| for your little tyke and one for a child in a developing nation. The
| ingeniously designed gadget is a great example of design with a conscience
| that combines social priorities with great, sexy, sustainable design. We’ve
| written about the $100 laptop before, and love that it’s becoming widely
| available to kids across the globe.
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http://www.inhabitat.com/2007/11/09/100-xo-laptop-launches-buy-one-donate-one-initiative/
Give One, Get One : One Laptop Per Child
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| I find myself today sitting in the Dallas/Ft Worth Airport in Texas waiting
| for my flight. I had a few hours to kill so I picked up a copy of Time
| magazine to help pass the time. (The one with the iPhone on the cover). I
| was surprised to see an advertisement inside for the One Laptop Per Child
| project and the “Give 1, Get 1” promotion.
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http://ubuntu-tutorials.com/2007/11/09/give-one-get-one-one-laptop-per-child/
Related:
T-Mobile USA Partners with One Laptop Per Child Program
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| T-Mobile USA, Inc. today announced it is partnering with One Laptop per Child
| for its Give One Get One initiative. T-Mobile is offering one year of
| complimentary T-Mobile HotSpot access to people who donate an XO laptop to a
| child in a developing country through the campaign.
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http://techluver.com/2007/11/02/t-mobile-usa-partners-with-one-laptop-per-child-program/
Lessons to Learn from the OLPC
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| 1- Cheap is good
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| 2- People don’t need a lot of power
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| 3- Linux please
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| 4- Flash storage is key
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| 5- Make it efficient
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| 6- Hand crank!
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| 7- Don’t skimp on the features
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| 8- Make it rugged
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| 9- Make it look cool
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| 10- It’s a tablet, too
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http://www.geek.com/lessons-to-learn-from-the-olpc/
One Laptop Per Child (New Version), Reviewed by 12-Year-Old
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| For a regular laptop, this would be the paragraph about its problems, its
| deficiencies. But the thing is, there aren’t any problems with this computer!
| Congratulations, OLPC. You’ve done it. Or will you come out with yet better
| laptops? Is that even possible? We’ll have to see...
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http://www.freedom-to-tinker.com/?p=1206
(Video) OLPC Interface Walkthrough
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| Previously known as the $100 laptop, the OLPC boasts a 500mhz
| Processor, Linux OS, 1GB Memory, and a Two-Mode Display (Color and B&W).
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http://www.techeblog.com/index.php/tech-gadget/video-olpc-interface-walkthrough
OLPC to offer two-packs to jump start sales
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| The move will effectively bring XO laptops to the U.S. and create a way to
| finance the OLPC effort abroad. And that financing will be necessary
| considering the cost of the XO laptop is double the original $100 target.
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http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=6351
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
AMD chief condemns Intel 'abuses'
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| In 2005, after the Japan Fair Trade Commission found Intel guilty of
| offering illegal rebates to Japanese PC makers, AMD filed an anti-trust
| suit against its competitor in the U.S. District Court in Delaware. The
| case has not been decided.
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http://www.channelregister.co.uk/2007/06/21/amd_ceo_condemns_intel_abuses/
OLPC rolls off the production line
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| Here, for the first time, are pictures of the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC)
| coming off the production line at the Quantas factory in China.
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http://www.tectonic.co.za/view.php?src=rss&id=1862
'$100 laptop' production begins
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| Hardware suppliers have been given the green light to ramp-up production of
| all of the components needed to build millions of the low-cost machines.
| Previously, the organisation behind the scheme said that it required orders
| for 3m laptops to make production viable. The first machines should be ready
| to put into the hands of children in developing countries in October 2007.
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/6908946.stm
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