6 posts and columns on XO

Boy, Apple’s Design Aesthetic Really Didn’t Rub Off on Kindle 1.0 at All, Did It?

in News on May 6, 2009 at 3:45 am PT

What propitious timing. At a press conference in New York City later this morning, Amazon is expected to announce a new large-screen Kindle designed for reading periodicals and textbooks. And yesterday, on the eve of that announcement, came word that the company had been awarded a patent on the original Kindle design. The patent, #D591,741, is entitled “Electronic media reader” and it makes just a single claim.
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Zuckerberg: Sorry Seems to Be the Hardest Word

in News on December 6, 2007 at 11:00 am PT

Microsoft Announces BSOLPC

in News on December 6, 2007 at 12:01 am PT

Apparently unable to stomach the idea of thousands of school children in developing countries running the Linux operating system on their new laptops, Microsoft is working on a version of Windows XP for the One Laptop Per Child project’s XO machine. The company has assigned some 40 developers to the project and plans to begin [...]