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More on the continuing OLPC saga…

Watch as Nicholas Negroponte delivers a shipment of OLPC laptops to what was once a guerrilla controlled part of Colombia.

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Portugal orders 500K of Intel’s Classmate PC’s, where’s OLPC?

Having recently blogged about OLPC’s struggles and challenges here, this news comes as no real surprise.  It’s a bit sad and frustrating that OLPC isn’t able to get more traction in the global marketplace.  Machines like Intel’s Classmate PC and the EEPC compete (at least on a cost and basic form factor perspective) directly with the [...]

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Negroponte updates TED on OLPC

  After over 2 years since the launch of the One Laptop per child concept, Nicholas Negroponte updates the TED audience (here) on what has happened, what hasn’t happened and where this project if headed.  While I love the idea of this project, there are logistical and pragmatic questions I have about the actual value [...]

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