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Microsoft Trying To Get Windows On OLPC

10:23 am PST • December 5, 2006

The boys in Redmond got sent a few OLPC test models recently and are trying to get Windows up and running on them. Though the article points out that “the…

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OLPC Guys Like To Play Doom

3:02 pm PST • November 29, 2006

For the past year, we’re sure that the OLPC team has been hard at work designing the $100 laptop for poor kids in Africa. We’re proud that they’re so committed…

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OLPC Gets 1,000 Laptops Closer To Mass Production

12:31 pm PST • November 21, 2006

You can barely see it in the picture, against the green table top, but that’s the first of 1,000 Quanta XO 2B1 laptops to roll off the assembly line in…

Remember back in the ’80s when Libya was a rogue nation, bent on war with the US? Not so much anymore. In fact, General el-Qaddafi has ponied up $250 million…

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Hackers Needed To Break $100 OLPC Laptops

6:39 am PDT • October 4, 2006

On October 2, One Laptop Per Child put out an open call to “hackers” to try and break the $100 laptops, named the 2B1, so they don’t hit the open…

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OLPC Laptop No Longer CM1, Now 2B1

8:48 am PDT • August 28, 2006

It was only last week that everyone reported the One Laptop Per Child project’s first laptop changed its name to the CM1, which stands for Children’s Machine 1. But now…

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OLPC Children's Machine Inches Closer

7:55 am PDT • August 25, 2006

The One Laptop Per Child initiative announced today that it had named its first “$100 laptop” the Children’s Machine, aka the CM1. Each unit will feature a 400Mhz AMD Geode…