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OLPC Scales Back, Cuts 50 Percent of StaffOpen in New Window
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OLPC downsizes half of its staff, cuts Sugar developmentOpen in New Window
Avatar Posted by davemackey 7 hours ago (http://arstechnica.com)
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The One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) project, which aims to build low-cost mobile computing devices for students in developing countries, has announced major layoffs.Read More... read more »
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Amazon/OLPC 'Give One, Get One' store opensOpen in New Window
Avatar Posted by davemackey 51 days ago (http://www.betanews.com)
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"Nonprofit equity computing project One Laptop Per Child this morning opened its Give One, Get One (G1G1) store on Amazon.com." read more »
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OLPC laptops now blanket the Pacific nation of NiueOpen in New Window
Avatar Posted by davemackey 137 days ago (http://www.betanews.com)
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"The small country of Niue today became the first nation to provide OLPC (One Laptop Per Child) laptops to all of its public school students -- but then again, that number amounts to only 500." read more »
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OLPC Sugar creates a cavity.Open in New Window
Avatar Posted by vogelabv 225 days ago (http://arstechnica.com)
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The OLPC Sugar interface has split from the OLPC project to focus on software development. read more »
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OLPC sweet talks MicrosoftOpen in New Window
Avatar Posted by davemackey 258 days ago (http://go.theregister.com)
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Sprinkles Sugar on top of WindowsThe One Laptop Per Child Foundation (OLPC) is adapting its Sugar software package to make it compatible with Microsoft’s operating system.… read more »
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Negroponte, developers at odds over future of OLPC platformOpen in New Window
Avatar Posted by god 258 days ago (http://arstechnica.com)
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OLPC founder Nicholas Negroponte denies rumors that Linux support will be dropped but says that he wants the Sugar interface to be able to work on Windows too. Developers who are closely involved wit read more »
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Exodus of key figures from OLPC a troubling sign for projectOpen in New Window
Avatar Posted by god 259 days ago (http://arstechnica.com)
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Plagued by serious hardware problems and ideological conflicts, and seeing unanticipated competition in the budget laptop space, the OLPC project may be headed towards an unfortunate and untimely dem read more »
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