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One Tablet Per Child?
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| Judging from early mock-ups of the Mobyâ
| which will be available this fall,
| according to Marvellâthe device will
| resemble a somewhat chunky iPad, right down
| to the single âhomeâ button on the bezel.
| Marvell hasnât announced the deviceâs full
| specs, but says the tablet will include Wi-
| Fi, Bluetooth, FM, and GPS radios and will
| support âmultiple software standards
| including full Adobe Flash, Android,
| Windows Mobile, and Ubuntu.â (Ubuntu is a
| variant of Linux.) Like the iPad, the Moby
| is expected to have a long battery life
| compared to a laptop, but unlike the iPad,
| it will have a built-in camera for
| photography and video conferencing. Marvell
| also says the deviceâs virtual keyboard
| will provide âtouch feedback,â although it
| hasnât specified how this will work.
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http://www.xconomy.com/boston/2010/05/28/one-tablet-per-child/
OLPC rules out Windows for XO-3
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| One Laptop Per Child won't use Microsoft's
| Windows OS on its upcoming XO-3 tablet,
| which will run Linux, OLPC's CTO said
| Thursday.
|
| OLPC's chairman Nicholas Negroponte last
| year said that the organization was
| "urging" Microsoft to make a full version
| of Windows available for the earlier XO-2,
| which was also based on the Arm processor.
| The XO-2 was later canceled.
|
| The XO-3 will also use an Arm processor,
| but OLPC is ruling out loading multiple
| versions of Windows on the tablet, said Ed
| McNierney, OLPC's CTO, by e-mail Thursday.
|
| "We have no evidence that Microsoft will
| make full-featured Windows 7 available on
| Arm, and that's their decision," McNierney
| said.
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http://www.pcworld.idg.com.au/article/348185/olpc_rules_windows_xo-3/
OLPC and Marvell Team Up on $99 XO Tablet Project
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| OLPC hopes to have this tablet run on only
| one watt of power (the current XO consumes
| 5W). It is unclear what kind of battery
| life this will allow, but it should be
| long, if not very long. As for how much it
| will cost, the target point is a fairly
| attractive $99.
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http://news.softpedia.com/news/OLPC-And-Marvell-Team-Up-On-99-XO-Tablet-Project-143201.shtml
Marvell and OLPC design $75 tablet
http://www.tgdaily.com/mobility-features/49969-marvell-and-olpc-design-75-tablet
One Laptop Per Child Set to Offer $100 Tablets, Android Likely to be on First Offerings
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| While VIA is helping to produce a line of
| devices that come in at the $100-$150
| range, Marvellâs teaming up with the
| organization to keep their tablets at a
| maximum price of $99.99 to help less-
| fortunate children and families get
| computing devices that will help them with
| their education and everyday life.
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http://phandroid.com/2010/05/27/one-laptop-per-child-set-to-offer-100-tablets-android-likely-to-be-on-first-offerings/
One Laptop Per Child Focuses on Sub-$100 Tablet PC for Education
http://thejournal.com/articles/2010/05/27/one-laptop-per-child-focuses-on-sub-100-tablet-pc-for-education.aspx
Recent:
One Laptop Per Child Revamps Tablet Plans
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| The One Laptop Per Child foundation's aim to
| create the world's most innovative tablet
| computer for the developing world just took
| a giant leap toward reality. But as is often
| the case, reality may not be quite as
| exciting as imagination.
|
| On Thursday the foundation announced a
| partnership with chip maker Marvell to
| collaborate on a sleek and cheap touch-
| screen tablet for developing-world school
| children, a device it now plans to launch at
| the Consumer Electronics Show in January
| 2011 for less than $100. One Laptop Per
| Child (OLPC) says that's close to two years
| ahead of its scheduled release for the so-
| called XO-3, the long-awaited upgrade to the
| non-profit's XO, the so-called "hundred-
| dollar laptop" launched in 2007.
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http://www.forbes.com/2010/05/26/olpc-ipad-apple-technology-negroponte.html
$100 computing in 2010
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| Itâs time to take the old meme of $100
| computing seriously.
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http://blog.laptop.org/2010/05/26/100usd-computing-in-2010/
OLPC's Negroponte Says XO-3 Prototype Tablet Coming in 2010
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| One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) project founder
| Nicholas Negroponte said that the
| organization is accelerating its development
| of the XO-3 tablet computer and will have a
| working prototype by December 2010, two
| years ahead of projections. Negroponte said
| the final product would cost US$75.
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http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/197324/olpcs_negroponte_says_xo3_prototype_tablet_coming_in_2010.html
One Laptop per Child and Marvell Join Forces to Redefine Tablet Computing for Students Around the World
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| One Laptop per Child (OLPC), a global
| organization whose mission is to help
| provide every child in the world access to a
| modern education, and Marvell, a worldwide
| leader in integrated silicon solutions, have
| agreed to jointly develop a family of next-
| generation OLPC XO tablet computers based on
| the Marvell Moby reference design. This
| new partnership will provide designs and
| technologies to enable a range of new
| educational tablets, delivered by OLPC and
| other education industry leaders, aimed at
| schools in both the U.S. and developing
| markets. Marvell is also announcing today it
| has launched Mobylize, a campaign aimed at
| improving technology adoption in America's
| classrooms.
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http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/one-laptop-per-child-and-marvell-join-forces-to-redefine-tablet-computing-for-students-around-the-world-95007559.html
The OLPC's real importance is as a conversation starter
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| The One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) project is
| looking to launch a prototype of its XO-3
| later this year. The real advantage of
| having the OLPC around is as a product
| conversation starter and design influence.
|
| IDG News Service reports that the OLPC is
| speeding up the development of the XO-3
| tablet, which wasnât supposed to land until
| 2012. The idea is that this tablet would
| cost $75. OLPC also provided details on its
| blog.
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http://www.zdnet.com/blog/btl/the-olpcs-real-importance-is-as-a-conversation-starter/35142
OLPC laptops for East Africa and Palestinian children
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| According to the BBC, approximately 30
| million laptops are expected to be
| delivered to East Africa by 2015 and
| 500,000 units in the Middle East.
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http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/OLPC-laptops-for-East-Africa-and-Palestinian-children-990651.html
UN to buy 500,000 OLPC laptops for Palestinian children
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| The computers run the open-source Sugar
| software suite, marking a return to OLPC's
| roots after a flirtation with running
| Windows XP on its emblematic green-and-white
| XO laptops.
|
| Sugar is now developed by a separate
| organization, Sugar Labs, which also offers
| versions of its Activities software for
| Windows, or on a bootable USB stick running
| on top of a Linux kernel.
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http://www.businessweek.com/idg/2010-04-29/un-to-buy-500-000-olpc-laptops-for-palestinian-children.html
One Laptop per Child targets Middle East and E Africa
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| The rugged machines - which are designed
| specifically for children in the developing
| world and run both Linux and Microsoft
| Windows - are now offered in single units
| for around $200 each.
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/10091177.stm
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