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• in Technology
  One Tablet Per Child at CES 2012
  OLPC unveils tablet-inspired model at CES 2012
  by oldgoat1957 / on Jan 7, 2012

Latest blogosphere posts tagged “olpc”

 

• Googles Schmidt Pledges Raspberry Pi Linux Computers to U.K. Schools

  
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  As weve reported , the diminutive $25 Linux computer dubbed Raspberry Pi is attracting developers and tinkerers, and weve also noted that it could succeed where projects like One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) ran into roadblocks-- in the educational market . In fact, the tiny devices (see the motherboard shown here) ...
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• Thailand signs $32.8m deal to begin largest educational tablet rollout to date

  
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  Thailand looks set to proceed with the widest educational tablet deployment to date, after the country’s government finally signed an initial $32.8 million (1.02 billion THB) contract for a project that aims to deploy close to a million devices across the nation’s schools. The initiative, which was first ...
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• OLPC weekly update 04/05

  
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  A number of difficult problems this week, but some progress was made. Helped diagnosis of an audio codec driver problem with our the XO-1.75 kernel upgrade. Attempted diagnosis of a Fedora 17 ARM build problem with the llvm package, which was blocking a lot of things. We have a workaround now. Investigated the ...
  2 weeks ago

• Dr. Bert Freudenberg: Squeak Etoys on iPad [del.icio.us]

  
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• Meet InToTally: the startup that’s souping up Vodafone’s 3G networks

  
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  A tiny company you have never heard of is about to have an outsized impact on the global mobile industry. Global giant Vodafone plans to use a technology developed by a small  startup called InToTally to supercharge its 3G networks starting in June, GigaOM has learned. InToTally claims once the overhaul is ...
  3 weeks ago

• Intel introduces Raspberry Pi-like Next Unit of Computing

  
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  It seems like Intel keeps jumping on new computing platform bandwagons. When the OLPC was getting so much attention, Intel introduced the Classmate—and now it seems that Intel is working on making its own budget pint-sized box similar to the education-focused Raspberry Pi. Called the Next Unit of Computing (NUC), ...
  3 weeks ago

• Community BBQ with OLPC Madagascar near Toronto on May 6

  
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  Resumen en español al final del artículo Over the weekend I heard about an OLPC community BBQ which will take in Elora, Ontario near Toronto next Saturday, May 6. The event will bring together some of the key people working on OLPC projects in Madagascar and Haiti as well as members of the Canadian OLPC ...
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• Adam and SJ working hard [Flickr]

  
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  Christoph Derndorfer posted a photo:
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• The first step in education reform is to test the politicians

  
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  We now do a lot of teaching to the test. Making sure that kids can pass tests created by private companies to gauge achievement. It’s a huge racket. We spend billions on tests, test prep and the time wasted in our already short school year. The same people who make the tests, make the textbooks,  the test prep ...
  3 weeks ago

• OLPC weekly update 27/04

  
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  Helped port OLPC’s runin tests to Fedora 17. Enabled olpc-update for the 12.1.0 builds. Finished off an old patch to reserve disk space for root on jffs2 , which can help avoid a slowdown when the disk gets full.
  4 weeks ago

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