The hardest thing about learning to use the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) project’s XO notebook PC is finding the right way to twist its antenna ears and open the display. Once you can see the screen, ...

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 ...

Show me the money! It’s Tuesday’s IT Blogwatch: in which the One Laptop Per Child gang give in, allowing ordinary Joes to buy one. Not to mention the risks of medical treatment abroad… Nancy Gohring ...

Aimed at helping educate children in the poorest developing countries, OLPC's G1G1 (Give One Get One) promotion asks Amazon.com customers to buy either an XO laptop for $199, or buy one laptop to keep ...

Amazon.com has announced that it will begin selling One Laptop Per Child’s (OLPC) XO laptop on its Web site starting on November 17th. Amazon says that the XO laptop will be sold in the same way as ...

As One Laptop Per Child wraps up commercial sales of its XO laptop, a user thinks keeping the XO available will have great benefits for the nonprofit and its mission As commercial sales of One Laptop ...

Laptops used by children in the remote villages of developing nations must be cheap, compact, easy to repair, rugged and power-stingy. Business users stuck on a flight, say, from New York to Paris, ...

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 ...

For two weeks this month, Americans are being invited to join a global marathon -- the uphill effort to take 21st-century computing to poor children around the world. The invitation comes from One ...

SAN JOSE, Calif. — XO laptops — the low-cost computers geared for kids in developing countries — are fetching a pretty penny on eBay. The computers, which have a signature green-and-white case and a ...

One Laptop Per Child shows off the first version of its XO laptop, including many features geared toward helping kids learn in their own environment The hardest thing about learning to use the OLPC ...

As commercial sales of One Laptop Per Child‘s XO laptop close Monday, a user tracking the nonprofit effort said continued commercial availability of the laptop could benefit OLPC’s nonprofit effort, ...