A former executive of One Laptop Per Child, the program whose mission is to give low-cost, rugged laptops to children in underserved locations around the world, is suing the non-profit organization ...

Not as well as those behind the programme to supply children in the developing world with a cheap, robust computer would like. The OLPC programme, despite plenty of goodwill and positive press ...

Mary Lou Jepsen, the XO laptop’s designer and OLPC’s CTO, split from the project a little over a week ago to “commercialize” some of the tech she developed for the project—the display in ...

In an interview, Mary Lou Jepsen, the former head of One Laptop Per Child and current head of Pixel Qi, talks about her departure from OLPC and her $75 laptop plans Mary Lou Jepsen stirred up a ...

An MIT professor founded One Laptop Per Child. Sept. 24, 2007 — -- It's been dubbed "the Green Machine," and since it was first conceived five years ago, the low-cost laptop has been ridiculed as ...

SEATTLE -- The One Laptop Per Child project is set to resume its Give One Get One promotion for its kid-friendly computers Monday with logistics help from Web retailer Amazon.com Inc. With Give One ...

Another entry in the swelling mound of reports that the XO Laptop isn’t so noob-friendly after all—people needing help getting ’em going doesn’t spell “sweet” on the ease-of-use front. This guy saw ...

Shipments of the XO notebook PC for the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) project will likely be delayed until the third quarter, the manufacturer said Friday. Quanta Computer, the world’s largest contract ...

One Laptop Per Child, a charity that provides inexpensive computers to children in developing countries, has been sued by a company whose founder argues that the nonprofit group stole his designs for ...

I have also found the readability until sunlight/indoor lighting to be outstanding. SonicHgHog is most likely right, however - given the progress of the OLPC machines, $75 is a little bit optimistic.

Nicholas Negroponte, the MIT professor behind the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) project, is playing the role of the quirky idealist nicely. His latest plan? To drop the project’s new XO-3 tablets from ...

Mary Lou Jepsen was one of the pioneering minds behind One Laptop per Child, the project to produce cheap laptops for children in developing countries. Since then, Jepsen has moved on to start San ...