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CrunchPad reborn as JooJoo
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| Monday morning, former TechCrunch partner
| Fusion Garage revealed details of its plans to
| release its Linux-based Web browsing tablet.
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http://news.cnet.com/8301-19882_3-10410393-250.html
The market for humanitarianism
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| OLPC is not by any means going quietly into the
| night in the face of stiff competition. The
| company just completed the distribution of the
| XO-1 to 415,000 elementary schools in Uruguay.
| In addition, OLPC recently inked deals with
| Rwanda for 120,000 computers and Peru for
| 294,000 computers. In just three short years,
| OLPC has managed to sell over a million
| computers to some 31 countries. Kane proudly
| notes, âIndeed if a company would build a
| netbook that would have our qualities of low
| power and ruggedness, we would love to be out
| of the hardware business. We would love to have
| someone providing that machine at the right
| price point.â Yet it remains clear to Kane and
| his company that the XO-1 is still the only
| product suitable for meeting the needs of early
| childhood education in poorer countries.
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http://www.tuftsdaily.com/the-market-for-humanitarianism-1.2114721
Yesterday:
Fedora devs keeping OLPC sweet with Sugar
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| Developer Sebastian Dzialias (who was also
| in the OLPC session), said that a new
| version of Sugar on a Stick was coming this
| Tuesday - codenamed Blueberry. It's a good
| thing too, the promise of the XO and its
| desktop, deserves better than to end up in
| a landfill.
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http://blog.internetnews.com/skerner/2009/12/fedora-devs-keeping-olpc-sweet.html
OLPC's Netbook Impact on Laptop PC Industry
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| I will list the ways in which OLPC has
| influenced the target market which probably
| defines the interest of most readers of
| OLPC News, the angle from which most
| bloggers and industry commentators have
| been talking about the OLPC project for the
| past 4 years, which is how OLPC technology
| may affect the rich Western country's
| PC/Laptop industry.
|
| [...]
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| 5. Google is now planning the Chrome OS.
| Educated from the netbooks, the demand from
| the mass consumer market has now definitely
| shifted from performance and bloat, towards
| just asking to have the bare minimum.
| Google is seeing the convergence of market
| trends and are as a result building a very
| optimized OS to boot in 5 seconds and run
| on $50 ARM powered laptops.
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| OLPC has thus influenced the mass consumer
| and geek markets of rich countries in all
| these ways. But I do think OLPC has still a
| long way to go in the coming months to
| influence the industry even more.
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http://www.olpcnews.com/commentary/impact/olpc_netbook_impact_on_laptop.html
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