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OLPC Spin-off Developing UI for Intel's Classmate PC
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| Intel could give its Classmate PC a user interface similar to One Laptop Per
| Child's XO laptop, with the chip maker preparing a version of the Sugar UI
| found on OLPC's laptops for its educational laptop.
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http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/147265/olpc_spinoff_developing_ui_for_intels_classmate_pc.html
It's like the scorpion and the frog.
"Fat operating systems spend most of their energy supporting their own fat."
--Nicholas Negroponte, MIT Media Lab, rediff.com, Apr 2006
Recent:
Otellini: 'MID revolution will be centred round Linux'
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| Intel CEO says Microsoft's insistence on pushing Vista will hand market to
| open source rival
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| Intel's CEO has said that he sees the revolution that is about to happen
| around mobile internet devices (MID) such as the Eee PC and other Atom-based
| sub-notebooks will be "centred round Linux", in an interview with Associated
| Press.
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http://www.pcretailmag.com/news/29939/Otellini-MID-revolution-will-be-centred-round-Linux
First Atom-based notebook runs Linux
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| The world's third-largest PC vendor has announced a "netbook" based on a
| 1.6GHz Intel Centrino Atom processor and Linpus Linux. Acer's $380 Aspire One
| offers 512MB or 1GB of RAM, 8GB flash, an 8.9-inch, 1024x600 display, WiFi,
| webcam, and an optional 80GB hard drive.
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http://linuxdevices.com/news/NS6652435792.html
Related:
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
Intel "paid vendors not to use AMD"
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| AMD filed suit in Delaware against Intel in June of 2005, accusing its
| competitor of abusing its monopolistic position. The complaint charges that
| customers were forced not to use AMD processors. At that time the Japanese
| anti-trust body was investigating Intel and the EU Commission also had its
| eye on Intel's behaviour.
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http://www.heise.de/english/newsticker/news/107495/from/rss09
Microsoft dropped Vista hardware spec to raise Intel profits
http://www.channelregister.co.uk/2008/03/01/microsoft_intel_vista_capable_emails/
Microsoft 'Caves' To Intel
http://www.forbes.com/2008/02/28/microsoft-vista-intel-tech-ebiz-cx_wt_0228vista.html?partner=yahootix
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