9 posts and columns on OLPC

Attention Publishers: Here’s a Fantasy Tablet for Your Fantasy Tablet Magazines

in Media on December 22, 2009 at 4:03 pm PT

Since we’ve spent the past few months dreaming about what a magazine might look like on a tablet from the future, why not do a little dreaming about the tablet itself? Sound good? Then take a gander at the XO-3, a superlight, supercheap tablet that the people from One Laptop Per Child think they’d like to have available in 2012.
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Could iRex Be the Company Making News Corp.’s Kindle? Mmmmmaybe.

in Media on April 15, 2009 at 9:24 am PT

The Dutch firm already makes a line of e-book readers and says it will have an innovative color screen ready next year. And its CEO confirms it has talked to News Corp. But there’s no deal yet.
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OLPC Foundation Annouces “Keep One, Fire One” Employee Drive

in News on January 8, 2009 at 7:38 am PT

Since its launch four years ago, the One Laptop Per Child foundation has fallen far short of its initial goal of supplying Third World countries with 150 million laptops by the end of 2008. To date, little more than 500,000 children have received laptops. Though a noble idea, providing $100 $200 laptops to children in developing nations clearly hasn’t quite caught on. So it was only a matter of time before the project was forced to rejigger its operations.