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• BoomingBang: XO Laptop Role Playing Game

  
  tuxmachines.org - Do you waddle the waddle? — Authority: 458
  olpcnews.com: The basic mission of players is to eliminate all other players from the game in a funny way. You control a team of creatures, be it a penguin or Pigeon or a bull. Advertisement: read more
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• OLPC switching to ARM, plans paper thin netbook

  
  Linux/Unix News - motd.ambians.com — Authority: 461
  One Laptop per Child chairman Nicholas Negroponte told Xconomy that OLPC is prepping an ARM-based version 1.75 of its XO netbook while planning to release a & paper-thin& version 3.0 in 2012. Meanwhile, the Internet Archive is providing OLPC users with 1.6 million e-books, says the nonprofit organization....
  2 days ago

• The Future Of Netbook Battery Life

  
  NetbookBoards.com — Authority: 144
  What would you do with your 6-cell netbook if you could leave it on for 36 hours at a time? It sounds pretty insane, but JKOnTheRun has unearthed information about some very realistic ionic battery advances from one Arizona State research team. Batteries haven’t gotten a technology boost in ages, but in a time ...
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• Making Books Available

  
  Sayamindu's Ramblings — Authority: 99
  Its all over the web now – the Internet Archive has opened up over 1.6 million books for the OLPC XO laptops and in general, any machine running Sugar. Before going into anything else, it makes sense to provide a more specific meaning of “opening up” here – it involves two main objectives completed at the ...
  2 days ago

• One netbook per child out, One tablet per child in

  
  TECH.BLORGE.com — Authority: 584
  The man heading the One Laptop Per Child program says the next technology produced under the scheme will likely be a tablet device rather than a netbook. He has also come up with a new target for the cost [...]
  2 days ago

• New Web-Based Netbook From Litl — Based On Clutter, Unclut...

  
  Linux/Unix News - motd.ambians.com — Authority: 461
  cananian writes "The webbook company of Gnomes own Havoc Pennington (with a healthy dose of ex-Nokia and ex-OLPC engineers) finally shed its secrecy today, with a new web site and an article in the WSJ. Technical specs on the hardware were found by Engadget last week, and now comes a bit more information on the ...
  4 days ago

• "Negroponte: XO-1.75 goes ARM, XO-2 is canceled" and related posts

  
  DesiTonic : Spice Your Life With Daily Digital Doze — Authority: 157
  One Laptop Per Child News This morning I woke up to find an e-mail in my inbox which contained a link to an xeconomy.com interview with Nicholas Negroponte. Negroponte Outlines the Future of OLPC—Hints at Paperlike Design for Third Generation Laptop
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• Dual-Screen OLPC Design Binned; Get Ready For The OLPC Tablet

  
  TechCrunch — Authority: 898
  The One Laptop Per Child project has seen mixed success. With competition from similar, but more familiar-looking items from Intel and others , the OLPC found itself suddenly competing in a market it had no intention of entering. But theyre out there, theyve had some serious orders , and despite some other speed ...
  4 days ago

• Dual-Screen OLPC Design Binned; Get Ready For The OLPC Tablet

  
  Technology Pundit — Authority: 164
  The One Laptop Per Child project has seen mixed success. With competition from similar, but more familiar-looking items from Intel and others , the OLPC found itself suddenly competing in a market it had no intention of entering.
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• Negroponte: XO-1.75 goes ARM, XO-2 is canceled

  
  tuxmachines.org - Do you waddle the waddle? — Authority: 458
  olpcnews.com: This morning I woke up to find an e-mail in my inbox which contained a link to an xeconomy.com interview with Nicholas Negroponte. While reading it over breakfast I managed to spill my tea because I couldnt believe I was really seeing the words I was looking at. XO-2 development canceled? Advertisement: ...
  5 days ago

• OLPC scraps XO-2 dual screen laptop, moves toward ARM-based XO-1.75

  
  Asus Eee News, Mods, and Hacks — Authority: 134
  Submitted by Brad Linder - The XO-2 with the dual touchscreen displays is dead. Instead the next XO Laptop will have an ARM processor and the same chassis as the current model. The next model after that could be the one to watch though. Details at Xconomy and Liliputing .
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• Rest In Peace, Ridiculous Dual-Screen OLPC XO-2 [Obits]

  
  Gizmodo — Authority: 899
  It has always been an unspoken fear—or assumption, even—that the dual-touchscreen followup to the original OLPC, the XO-2 , would never come to pass. But we let the dream live! Until today: the XO-2 is officially scrapped . Almost worse than the news that well never see this folding, hybrid LCD/E ink budget ...
  5 days ago

• OLPC shakeup: dual-screen XO-2 out, ARM-based XO 1.75 in

  
  Engadget — Authority: 881
  OLPCs plans for a dual-screen XO-2 laptop / tablet always seemed a little... ambitious, and it looks like even Nicholas Negroponte himself has now realized that it may be more than the organization is able to pull off at the moment. That word comes from a recent interview with Xconomy , where Negroponte confirms ...
  5 days ago

• OLPC scrap dual-display XO-2; single-sheet “model 3.0 slate” in works

  
  SlashGear — Authority: 791
  OLPC chairman Nicholas Negroponte has revealed that the twin-display OLPC XO-2 2.0 project has been scrapped, in favor of an updated – but cosmetically identical – revamp of the existing 1.0 XO-1 model and a new, model 3.0 that has “totally different industrial design, more like a sheet of paper”. ...
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• [news link] OLPC scraps XO-2 dual screen laptop, moves toward ARM-based XO-1.75

  
  F-Default — Authority: 561
  From Liliputing : Remember that dual-touchscreen concept machine that the One Laptop Per Child folks were working on? Yeah, its toast. In a recent interview, OLPC founder Nicholas Negroponte told Xconomy that the team is killing off the XO-2 project and instead focusing on an XO Laptop version 1.75 Continued here: ...
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• OLPC scraps XO-2 dual screen laptop, moves toward ARM-based XO-1.75

  
  Liliputing — Authority: 695
  Remember that dual-touchscreen concept machine that the One Laptop Per Child folks were working on? Yeah, it’s toast. In a recent interview, OLPC founder Nicholas Negroponte told Xconomy that the team is killing off the XO-2 project and instead focusing on an XO Laptop version 1.75. Concept image: XO-2 Laptop ...
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• XO Laptop from OLPC on display at Mercy Corps Global Retreat - Side view [Flickr]

  
  One Laptop Per Child News — Authority: 624
  Wayan Vota posted a photo:
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• XO Laptop from OLPC on display at Mercy Corps Global Retreat- Front View [Flickr]

  
  One Laptop Per Child News — Authority: 624
  Wayan Vota posted a photo:
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• XO Laptop from OLPC on display at Mercy Corps Global Retreat - detail [Flickr]

  
  One Laptop Per Child News — Authority: 624
  Wayan Vota posted a photo:
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• Negroponte Outlines the Future of OLPC—Hints at Paperlike Design for Third Generation Laptop

  
  Xconomy — Authority: 708
  IT , One Laptop , Hardware Wade Roush wrote: After the October 24 announcement that the Internet Archive is about to make 1.6 million e-books available free to children with XO Laptops from the One Laptop Per Child Foundation , we decided it was time to catch up with OLPC’s founder and chairman, ...
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