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=LAPTOP NEWS 2007-03-31=
1. We are very happy to announce the availability of a new stable build. It is composed of Build 368 and the Q2B85 firmware. The highlights of this build:
* a working mesh network;
* a user interface to the mesh network;
* a working battery charging;
* a battery indicator in Sugar;
* a greatly improved web browser;
* many other activity improvements;
* a substantially improved boot time;
* availability of Helix Media Player (Real Networks);
* instructions for customizing your own image.
There is also a content library included in a separate package. 

2. laptop.org: We are using the wiki as our content management system and the infrastructure for translation is now in place. Thanks to the tireless efforts of [[User:Xavi|Xavier Alvarez]], the first translation of the new website is on line (See http://www.laptop.org/es). 

3. Wireless: This week was marked by five releases of wireless firmware, setting a new record. Today, we are at Firmware 5.220.10.p5, which fixes or addresses all known issues. Many thanks to  Dan Williams and Marcelo Tosatti from Red Hat, the Cozybit team, the Marvell team, and Michail Bletsas.

Dan and Chris Ball helped John Watlington build a kernel with the Libertas driver for his school server machines with Marvell USB dongles plugged in; the school servers now function on the mesh.

Michail expanded the OLPC mesh testbed to 22 nodes, which allows for more conclusive scalability tests (and starts to become a full-time sysadmin job). Dan hooked up the UI for the mesh view to make it possible to join the wireless mesh easily. Thus, this week was the first time that we have really been able to get a sense of how the mesh will work as an end-user experience, and it has to be said: it is really good. Boot a system for the first time, and if the machine sees a mesh, “poof,” you're on the network! Really quite remarkable.

4. Sugar: Marco Gritti spent a lot of time cleaning up and finishing last minute issues in the build. Some of the new fixes in Sugar are based on feedback from the field. This includes avoiding multiple launches of an activity; immediate feedback for launch; much improved frame behavior; and better overall performance. Marco also fixed bugs in the web browser that were preventing Google talk and some other sites from working. The dots-per-inch (DPI) scaling code in Mozilla still has issues; we will continue to work through them as we find them.

5. Tomeu Vizoso and Marco also added support for localization for Sugar (and some of the activities). Although we won't have any languages other than English in our first build, we should have the ability to start translating: the infrastructure in the programs in now place; next we need to set up a place where people who want to localize can participate. SJ Klein has set up a list on laptop.org for people who want to translate, which is a good start.

6. Battery: We know battery problems have been a great pain and concern and we are relieved that they have finally been resolved. For those of you with dead batteries with B2 systems, most, but not all of the dead batteries can be recovered with the systems you now have with the new firmware. Recovering batteries in the field with B1 systems is harder; thankfully there are far fewer B1 systems deployed. Please follow the directions in [[Battery Charging]]. We would like to thank all those who helped in the resolution of this problem, in reports from the field, and at Quanta and OLPC. Special thanks to Richard Smith, who was relentless in his efforts to chase down numerous bugs in the embedded-controller code.

7. Please update your systems to the new firmware as this firmware also fixes a battery overcharge problem.

8. New activities as of Build 368:
Calculadora, A simple calculator activity (Mauro Torres et al. of the Tuquito Linux project in Argentina);
Blockparty (AKA Tetris) (Vadim Gerasimov and John Palmieri);
Slideshow (Erik Blankinship, Bahktiar Mikhak, and Marco Gritti);
xbook (PDF viewer) as an activity.

9. Multimedia: Real Networks and the team at the Open Software Lab at Oregon State University have been working on a multimedia platform for the laptop.
(See [[Helix Media Activity]]). This is able to handle most common audio/video datatypes, as Real Networks has codecs for almost anything you can think of. The commercial version is better known as “Real Player” (Justin Gallardo (OSU), Greg Wright, Jeff Dutchman, Martin Schwartz (Real Networks))

10. Library activity: SJ has been leading a large community effort to build a content library for the laptop. (See   [[Library Release Notes]] for a description formats we are using to display directories of books and other materials.) Next up is a focus on the school library, figuring out how it communicates with the XO and what processes need to run on each to provide updated indices and views.  

11. Chris Ball created a procedure for customizing NAND images. Mitch Bradley has created a “save-nand” Open Firmware command to do this easily, but the
command will only be available in firmware versions Q2B84 or higher (See [[Customizing NAND images]]).

12. Trent LLoyd of the Avahi Project was instrumental in helping resolve with Dan Williams, Chris Blizzard, and Andres Salomon a boot-time Sugar crashing problems we have seen for a long time. Avahi is the basis of discovering other people and services on the network. This is another great example of the value of the community; we would not have working “presence” in this stable build had this bug not been found and resolved, but would have had to disable Avahi in favor of stability.

13. Christina Xu took some photos of XOs in action and produced two neat
visual instructions for powering on and opening the laptop:
* http://www.flickr.com/photo_zoom.gne?id=439184985&size=l
* http://www.flickr.com/photo_zoom.gne?id=439204328&context=photostream&size=l

14. Power management: Jordan Crouse (AMD) reports suspend to RAM (STR) support is proceeding very well.  After successfully resuming the system two weeks ago, this past week was spent diagnosing  problems with the core drivers (namely, the framebuffer, the DCON, and the timer tick). Andres Salomon and Jordan discovered some serious DCON issues with source switching (from CPU to DCON source); those were traced back to firmware (after spending lots of time debugging the kernel) and Mitch fixed them there. We can now successfully freeze the frame on the DCON, and suspend and resume the system without losing the display. The timer tick was also fixed, which now means we don't need any special changes to the kernel command line to work around issues on the resume.

Attention now focuses on handling the secondary drivers (such as the audio, camera and USB), and improving overall stability. Our target for power-management stability is 1000 consecutive suspend/resume cycles without a glitch.

Marcelo spent time working on power management issues and USB resume.
USB resume is now working, which is another notch in the belt to getting
to a full suspend/resume story.

All of the code we are using is now in the “powermgmt” branch of our kernel GIT tree.

15. System software: Andres also made the touch-pad driver much more tolerant of version numbers and merged more fixes into the Libertas driver. He also worked on preparing mfgpt/dcon/geode code for inclusion upstream.

16. School server: The school server development continues.  We now have wireless mesh interfaces enclosed with an antenna and 3 meters of USB cable. Thanks to Chris Ball and Dan Williams, the server now recognizes them. Internet-router functionality is up and running (on the wired school LAN) and applications and content for the Library are starting to be installed. A school server specification—really more of an introduction—has been written and posted on the wiki.

N. Firmware:  We are planning to cut all developers over to the fastboot/suspend/resume firmware next week. Lilian Walter released a few self-tests this week, including: nand-flash;
spi-flash; display; and camera (a new driver). Our goal is to aid field diagnosis and repair.

Lilian has also released code to reprobe the usb bus to remove obsolete device nodes and to create new device nodes as usb devices are removed, added or replaced. Next, Lilian shall look at keyboard self test and Quanta's request for modification to the NAND flash self test.

Mitch added the following features were added to that firmware this week:
* ability to do fast display save/restore in the low-level resume path (This feature is turned off by default, in favor of similar code in the kernel, but serves as a working model for how to interact with the hardware to accomplish the purpose);
* USB power state restoration after resume;
* self-test diagnostics (from Lilian) for several devices, including camera and display (The self-test suite is nearly complete now);
* save-nand command for creating restorable images of modified JFFS2 filesystems;
* a fix for an infrequent problem with reflashing the firmware; and
* a fix for a problem booting.

The OFW port to the LX development board is working, so OFW is on track for the switchover to LX.

Laptop News is archived at [http://laptop.media.mit.edu/laptopnews.nsf/latest/news Laptop News].

You can subscribe to the OLPC community-news mailing list by visiting the [http://mailman.laptop.org/mailman/listinfo/community-news laptop.org mailman site].

Press requests: please send email to press@racepointgroup.com

=MILESTONES=
{|
|-
|align="right" valign="top"|Feb.&nbsp;2007
|B2-test machines become available and are shipped to developers and the launch countries.

|-
|align="right" valign="top"|Jan.&nbsp;2007
|[[Rwanda]] announced its participation in the project.

|-
|align="right" valign="top"|Dec.&nbsp;2006
|[[OLPC Uruguay|Uruguay]] [http://www.presidencia.gub.uy/_Web/noticias/2006/12/2006121402.htm announced] its participation in the project.

|-
|align="right" valign="top"|Nov.&nbsp;2006
|First B1 machines are built; IDB and OLPC formalize an agreement regarding Latin American and Caribbean education. 

|-
|align="right" valign="top"|Oct.&nbsp;2006
|B-test boards become available; [[Libya]] announces plans for one laptop for every child

|-
|align="right" valign="top"|Sep.&nbsp;2006
|UI designs presented; integrated software build released; SES-Astra joins OLPC

|-
|align="right" valign="top"|Aug.&nbsp;2006
|Working prototype of the dual-mode display

|-
|align="right" valign="top"|Jun.&nbsp;2006
|500 developer boards are shipped worldwide; WiFi operational; Csound demonstrated over the mesh network<br/>First video with working prototype [http://www.siliconvalleysleuth.com/2006/06/first_video_of_.html]

|-
|align="right" valign="top"|May&nbsp;2006
|eBay joins OLPC; display specs set; A-test boards become available; $100 Server is announced

|-
|align="right" valign="top"|Apr.&nbsp;2006
|Pre-A test board boots; Squid and FreePlay present first human-power systems

|-
|align="right" valign="top"|Mar.&nbsp;2006
|Yves Behar and FuseProject are selected as industry designers

|-
|align="right" valign="top"|Feb.&nbsp;2006
|Marvell joins OLPC and continues to partner on network hardware

|-
|align="right" valign="top"|Jan.&nbsp;2006
|World Economic Forum, Switzerland<br/>UNDP and OLPC Sign Partnership Agreement<br/>[http://content.undp.org/go/newsroom/january-2006/100-dollar-laptop-20060128.en?categoryID=349422 news release]

|-
|align="right" valign="top"|Dec.&nbsp;2005
|Quanta Computer Inc. to Manufacture Laptop<br/>[http://www.laptop.org/2005-1213-olpc.html (html)][http://www.laptop.org/2005-1213-olpc.pdf (pdf)]

|-
|align="right" valign="top"|Nov.&nbsp;2005
|WSIS, Tunisia<br/>Prototype Unveiled by UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan; Nortel joins OLPC<br/>
Photos: [http://www.itu.int/wsis/plib/detail.asp?y=2005&amp;n=6265 (Image 1)]
[http://www.itu.int/wsis/plib/detail.asp?y=2005&amp;n=6264 (Image 2)] [http://www.itu.int/wsis/plib/detail.asp?y=2005&amp;n=6263 (Image 3)]<br/>
Webcast: [http://196.203.134.60/archives/pc-051116-1900-ar.rm?start=00:01:22 (Arabic)]
[http://196.203.134.60/archives/pc-051116-1900-en.rm?start=00:01:26 (English)]
[http://196.203.134.60/archives/pc-051116-1900-fr.rm?start=00:01:30 (French)]
[http://196.203.134.60/archives/pc-051116-1900-fl.rm?start=00:01:35 (original)]<br/>
<i>Webcast provided by the ITU and UN Webcast Services with the support of RealNetworks Ltd. [http://www.real.com/freeplayer/?rppr=rnwk RealPlayer] is required to view the webcast (available at no cost).</i>

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|align="right"|Aug. 2005
|Design Continuum starts design of first laptop

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|align="right"|Jul. 2005
|Formal signing of original members of OLPC

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|align="right"|Mar. 2005
|Brightstar and Red Hat come on board

|-
|align="right"|Jan. 2005
|Laptop initiative officially announced at World Economic Forum, Davos, Switzerland; AMD, News Corp. and Google agree to join OLPC
|}

=PRESS=

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|-
|align="right"|3&nbsp;Jan.&nbsp;2007
|| networkworld.com| [[Media:Networkworld.com news 2007 010307-olpc-aims-for-ma...pdf| OLPC Aims for Mass Production in Third Quarter]]
|-
|align="right"|3&nbsp;Jan.&nbsp;2007
|| IDG.net| [[Media:Computerworld.comOne Laptop Per Child sweetens hardware with 'Sugar' UI.pdf| One Laptop per Child Sweetens Hardware with 'Sugar' UI]]
|-
|align="right"|3&nbsp;Jan.&nbsp;2007
|| YAHOO! Finance| [[Media:Yahoo.com OLPC Announces First-of-Its-Kind User Interface for XO Laptop...pdf| OLPC Announces First-of-Its Kind User Interface for XO Laptop Computer]]
|-
|align="right"|2&nbsp;Jan.&nbsp;2007
|| Bicyclemark's Communique (podcast)| [[Media:Bicyclemark’s Communique » bm176 One Laptop per Child.pdf| (@23C3)Podcast:OLPC]]
|-
|align="right"|22&nbsp;Dec.&nbsp;2006
||Financial Times| [http://www.ft.com/cms/s/96aac476-94f8-11db-a911-0000779e2340.html Clever Kit to Benefit Developing Countries] (registration required)
|-
|align="right"|27&nbsp;Nov.&nbsp;2006
||Pagina/12|[[Media:Página 12 Web Sociedad “La manera más económica para me...pdf| Pagina/12]]
|-
|align="right"|21&nbsp;Nov.&nbsp;2006
|| Official Release| [[Media:First 1,000 XO Laptops Roll Off the Assembly Line in Shanghai...pdf| First 1,000 XO-Laptops Roll off the Assembly Line in Shanghai]]
|- 
|align="right"|19&nbsp;Nov.&nbsp;2006
||Jamaica Gleaner| [[Media:Jamaica Gleaner News - Technology - a tool for transformation...pdf| Technology - a tool for transformation]]
|- 
|align="right"|19&nbsp;Nov.&nbsp;2006
|| International Herald Tribune|[[Media:Herald Tribune One Laptop per Child Computer designed for those who can lea...pdf| OLPC: Computer designed for those who can least afford them]]
|- 
|align="right"|Nov./Dec.&nbsp;2006
|| Technology Review| [[Media:Technology Review Part III Philanthropy's New Prototype.pdf| Will This Save the World? The $100 Laptop Part III]]
|- 
|align="right"|Nov./Dec.&nbsp;2006
|| Technology Review| [[Media:Technology Review Part II Philanthropy's New Prototype.pdf| Will This Save the World? The $100 Laptop Part II]]
|- 
|align="right"|Nov./Dec.&nbsp;2006
|| Technology Review|  [[Media:Technology Review Part I Philanthropy's New Prototype.pdf| Will This Save the World? The $100 Laptop Part I]]
|- 
|align="right"|8&nbsp;Nov.&nbsp;2006
||Popular Science| [[Media:PopSci's Best of What's New 2006.pdf| Best of What's New 2006:  One Laptop per Child XO- Better Screen, Better World]]
|-  
|align="right"|6&nbsp;Nov.&nbsp;2006
||ZDNet.co.uk | [[Media:Why every child deserves a laptop - ZDNet UK.pdf| Why Every Child Deserves a Laptop- Matthew Szulik, CEO, Red Hat]]
|- 
|align="right"|27&nbsp;Oct.&nbsp;2006
||LinuxWorld | [[Media:Linux World Doing it for the kids, man Children's laptop inspires open s...pdf| Children's Laptop Inspires Open Source Projects]]
|-
|align="right"|24&nbsp;Oct.&nbsp;2006
||LA Times | [http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-oe-lunenfeld24oct24,0,2221682.story?coll=la-news-comment-opinions Upward Mobility in a Laptop PAGE NOT FOUND]
|-
|align="right"|24&nbsp;Oct.&nbsp;2006
||Fortune |[[Media:CNNMoney.com Intel doubts Nicholas Negroponte's $100 laptop - October 30, ...pdf| This PC wants to save the world]]
|-
|align="right"|12&nbsp;Oct.&nbsp;2006
||Bostonist | [[Media:Bostonist One Laptop Per Child for Libya.pdf| One Laptop per Child for Libya]]
|-
|align="right"|11&nbsp;Oct.&nbsp;2006
||New York Times | [http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/11/world/africa/11laptop.html U.S. Group Reaches Deal to Provide Laptops to All Libyan Schoolchildren MUST REGISTER]
|-
|align="right"|3&nbsp;Oct.&nbsp;2006
||GulfNews.com | [http://wiki.laptop.org/images/f/fd/Gulfnews_College_gets_look_at_%24100_children%27s_laptop_computer.pdf College gets look at $100 Children's Laptop Computer]
|-
|align="right"|25&nbsp;Sep.&nbsp;2006
||vnunet.com | [http://wiki.laptop.org/images/6/62/OLPC_offered_free_satellite_connections_-_vnunet.pdf OLPC offered free satellite connections]
|-
|align="right"|14&nbsp;Sep.&nbsp;2006
||Vanguard | [http://wiki.laptop.org/images/5/54/Vanguard_-_Technology_Keyboard_In_Three_Nigerian_Languages_...pdf Keyboard In Three Nigerian Languages Ready-Obasanjo]
|-
|align="right"|08&nbsp;Sep.&nbsp;2006
||Technology Review | [http://wiki.laptop.org/images/f/f9/Technology_Review_Hack_The_Hundred-Dollar_Laptop.pdf Hack:  The Hundred Dollar Laptop]
|-
|align="right"|06&nbsp;Sep.&nbsp;2006
||nacion.com | [http://wiki.laptop.org/images/3/33/Nacion.pdf Computadoras de $100 estarán listas en el 2007]
|-
|align="right"|&nbsp;Aug.&nbsp;2006
||Wired | [http://wiki.laptop.org/images/f/fa/Wired_14.pdf The Laptop Crusade]
|-
|align="right"|28&nbsp;Aug.&nbsp;2006
||PCINpact.com | [http://wiki.laptop.org/images/f/fa/Wired_14.pdf L'OLPC a 100 $ est finalise: un engin hors du commun]
|-
|align="right"|21&nbsp;Aug.&nbsp;2006
||EWeek.com | [http://wiki.laptop.org/images/9/9c/Knocking_Down_the_Barriers_to_the_%24100_Laptop.pdf Knocking Down Barriers to the $100 Laptop]
|-
|align="right"|31&nbsp;Jul.&nbsp;2006
||NPR | [http://wiki.laptop.org/images/5/56/NPR_Affordable_Laptop_Computer_Project_Moves_Forward.pdf Affordable Laptop Computer Project Moves Forward]
|-
|align="right"|07&nbsp;Jul.&nbsp;2006
||San Diego Union-Tribune | [http://wiki.laptop.org/images/8/82/SignOnSanDiego.pdf U.S. and international educators show great interest in prototype]

|-
|align="right"|Jul.&nbsp;2006
||SPIE Professional | [http://wiki.laptop.org/images/b/b5/The_non-profit_One_Laptop_per_Child_with_Nicholas_Negroponte_...pdf $100 laptop nears launch]

|-
|align="right"|21&nbsp;Jun.&nbsp;2006
||BusinessWeek online | [http://wiki.laptop.org/images/9/95/For_Brazil%27s_Poor%2C_a_Digital_Deliverance_.pdf For Brazil's Poor, a Digital Deliverance?]

|-
|align="right"|24&nbsp;May&nbsp;2006
||CNET News.com | [http://wiki.laptop.org/images/a/a3/%24100_laptop_gets_working_prototype_Tech_News_on_ZDNet.pdf $100 laptop gets working prototype]

|-
|align="right"|07&nbsp;Apr.&nbsp;2006
||rediff.com | [http://inhome.rediff.com/money/2006/apr/07laptop.htm Our $100 laptops will run on human power]

|-
|align="right"|02&nbsp;Apr.&nbsp;2006
||O Estado de S.Paulo | [http://txt.estado.com.br/editorias/2006/04/02/opi79898.xml Fazer a diferença]

|-
|align="right"|28&nbsp;Mar.&nbsp;2006
||FT.com | [http://news.ft.com/cms/s/cda9ff16-bd97-11da-a998-0000779e2340,dwp_uuid=863bb51c-1f76-11da-853a-00000e2511c8,s01=1.html Waking up to a laptop revolution]

|-
|align="right"|24&nbsp;Mar.&nbsp;2006
||Diário do Comércio | [http://net.dcomercio.com.br/WebSearch/v.asp?TxtId=137775&SessionID=777715923&id=4&q=(Bender) Um Laptop por Crianca]

|-
|align="right"|22&nbsp;Mar.&nbsp;2006
||Times Online | [http://business.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,13132-2097123,00.html Getting the world's poor logged on]

|-
|align="right"|09&nbsp;Mar.&nbsp;2006
||Correio Popular | [http://www.info4.com.br/gomateria.asp?c=683&amp;a=551&amp;m=576482&amp;l=52455&amp;who=21535 País disputa fabricação de laptop de US$ 100]

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|&nbsp;
||Folha de S. Paulo | [http://www.info4.com.br/gomateria.asp?c=683&amp;a=551&amp;m=574713&amp;l=52431&amp;who=21535 Governo quer comprar 1 milhão de laptops ]

|-
|&nbsp;
||Info Exame On Line | [http://www.info4.com.br/gomateria.asp?c=683&amp;a=683&amp;m=10893&amp;l=6490&amp;who=21535 Governo quer um milhão de laptops de US$ 100 ]

|-
|align="right"|08&nbsp;Mar.&nbsp;2006
||IDG Now | [http://www.info4.com.br/gomateria.asp?c=683&amp;a=683&amp;m=10891&amp;l=6489&amp;who=21535 Faculdade abre programa de inclusão digital para alunos ]

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|&nbsp;
||Folha de S. Paulo | [http://www.info4.com.br/gomateria.asp?c=683&amp;a=683&amp;m=10885&amp;l=6486&amp;who=21535 Governo negocia fabricação do laptop de US$ 100 no Brasil]

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|&nbsp;
||Agência Globo | [http://www.info4.com.br/gomateria.asp?c=683&amp;a=683&amp;m=10887&amp;l=6487&amp;who=21535 Governo estuda possibilidade de produção de computador de US$ 100 no país]

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|&nbsp;
||Teletime News | [http://www.info4.com.br/gomateria.asp?c=683&amp;a=683&amp;m=10889&amp;l=6488&amp;who=21535 DVB detalha contrapartidas oferecidas ao Brasil]

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|align="right"|05&nbsp;Mar.&nbsp;2006
||ACM/CIE | [http://www.acm.org/pubs/cie/jan2006/clips/nicholas_negroponte.mov Interview with Nicholas Negroponte on the $100 laptop]

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|align="right"|16&nbsp;Feb.&nbsp;2006
||MITIR | [http://web.mit.edu/mitir/podcasts/2006-02-21_Bender_OLPC.mp3 Podcast of Walter Bender's MURJ lecture on One Laptop per Child]

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|align="right"|15&nbsp;Feb.&nbsp;2006
||CNET | [http://news.com.com/PCs+for+the+poor+Which+design+will+win/2100-1003_3-6040019.html PCs for the poor: Which design will win?]

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|align="right"|10&nbsp;Feb.&nbsp;2006
||CNET | [http://news.com.com/A+vaporware+battle+royale/2010-1071_3-6037674.html Perspective:  Will the $100 PC fly?]

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|align="right"|09&nbsp;Feb.&nbsp;2006
||NYTimes | [http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F70E14F83F5A0C7A8CDDAB0894DE404482 A Plug for the Unplugged $100 Laptop Computer for Developing Nations]

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||UPI | [http://www.upi.com/Hi-Tech/view.php?StoryID=20060209-124347-1619r One Laptop Project reaches critical stages]

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|align="right"|31&nbsp;Jan.&nbsp;2006
||Slashdot | [http://hardware.slashdot.org/hardware/06/01/31/0357225.shtml Microsoft OS Smart Phone for Developing Nations]

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||USA Today | [http://www.usatoday.com/tech/columnist/kevinmaney/2006-01-31-gates_x.htm Gates sees cellphones as way to help Third World]

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||Macworld | [http://www.macworld.com/news/2006/01/31/redhat/index.php Red Hat officially commits to MIT's $100 laptop]

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|align="right"|20&nbsp;Dec.&nbsp;2005
||BusinessWeek online | [http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/dec2005/tc20051220_069981.htm Quanta faces challenges in making "millions and millions" of $100 laptops.]

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|align="right"|19&nbsp;Dec.&nbsp;2005
||Forbes.com | [http://www.forbes.com/home/feeds/afx/2005/12/19/afx2400542.html China to decide by March whether to join OneLaptopPerChild project.]

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|align="right"|14&nbsp;Dec.&nbsp;2005
||UPI | [http://www.upi.com/Hi-Tech/view.php?StoryID=20051214-042829-9724r Nortel to take part in OneLaptopPerChild endeavor.]

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|align="right"|13&nbsp;Dec.&nbsp;2005
||Red Herring | [http://saiquist.notlong.com Quanta to manufacture laptops; expects deliveries in 2006 4th quarter.]

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|align="right"|11&nbsp;Dec.&nbsp;2005
||NYTimes | [http://www.nytimes.com/2005/12/11/magazine/11ideas_section2-11.html NY Times: 5th Annual Year in Ideas $100 Laptop]

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|align="right"|01&nbsp;Dec.&nbsp;2005
||RFDESIGN | [http://rfdesign.com/news/laptops-wireless-connectivity/ $100 Laptops Feature Novel Peer-to-Peer Wireless Connectivity]

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|align="right"|30&nbsp;Nov.&nbsp;2005
||FT.com | [http://news.ft.com/cms/s/06810fda-61bf-11da-8470-0000779e2340.html Five companies in Asia making bids to manufacture $100 laptop.]

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|align="right"|28&nbsp;Nov.&nbsp;2005
||Fortune Magazine | [http://www.fortune.com/fortune/articles/0,15114,1129896,00.html?promoid=cnnmoney THE DIGITAL DIVIDE: I'd Like to Teach the World to Type]

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|align="right"|25&nbsp;Nov.&nbsp;2005
||People's Daily Online | [http://english.people.com.cn/200511/25/eng20051125_223849.html Nigerian president says government has budgeted for a million $100 laptops.]

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|align="right"|17&nbsp;Nov.&nbsp;2005
||BBC News | [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/4445060.stm UN Debut for $100 Laptop for Poor]

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||Seattle Times | [http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/businesstechnology/2002628425_laptop17.html $100 Laptops Aim to Bring Children the World]

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||TechWhack | [http://news.techwhack.com/2455/171131-mit-unveils-their-usd-100-laptop/ MIT Unveils their USD 100 Laptop]

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||ZDNet | [http://news.zdnet.co.uk/hardware/mobile/0,39020360,39237304,00.htm '$100 Laptops' Here by Next Year]

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||ABC | [http://abc.net.au/science/news/stories/s1508732.htm $100 Laptop Bridges Digital Divide]

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||Financial Express | [http://www.financialexpress.com/latest_full_story.php?content_id=108887 Laptop @$100!]

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|align="right"|16&nbsp;Nov.&nbsp;2005
||MIT News Office | [http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2005/laptop-1116.html Annan to Present Prototype $100 Laptop at World Summit on Information Society]

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||CNET | [http://news.com.com/2300-1028_3-5956458-1.html?part=rss&amp;tag=5956458&amp;subj=news $100 Laptop Takes World Stage]

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||CNET | [http://news.com.com/100+laptop+expected+in+late+2006/2100-1028_3-5956402.html $100 Laptop Expected in Late 2006]

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||Christian Science Monitor | [http://www.csmonitor.com/2005/1116/p04s01-ussc.html A Low-Cost Laptop for Every Child]

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|align="right"|14&nbsp;Nov.&nbsp;2005
||WSJ | [http://online.wsj.com/public/article/SB113193305149696140-442o71jo_IlBrLpyUeeOdsqDs7E_20061113.html The $100 Laptop Moves Closer to Reality]

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|align="right"|13&nbsp;Nov.&nbsp;2005
||The Inquirer | [http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=27646 Hubris over $100 Laptop idea]

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||New York Times | [http://select.nytimes.com/search/restricted/article?res=F20D13F63D5B0C718DDDA90994DD404482 Google Earmarks $265million for Charity and Social Causes]

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|align="right"|13&nbsp;Oct.&nbsp;2005
||Technology Review | [http://www.technologyreview.com/articles/05/10/wo/wo_101305negroponte.asp The Hundred Dollar Man: Technology Review's editor in chief, Jason Pontin, talk with Nicholas Negroponte about the Hundred Dollar Computer.]

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|align="right"|29&nbsp;Sep.&nbsp;2005
||I4U News | [http://www.i4u.com/article4295.html Sub-$100 Laptop design unveiled]

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|align="right"|28&nbsp;Sep.&nbsp;2005
||Boston Globe | [http://www.boston.com/business/globe/articles/2005/09/28/for_each_poor_child_in_world_a_laptop/ Prototypes of $100 laptop with hand crank planned by early next year.]

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||MIT World | [http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/313/ NN at Technology Review]

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|align="right"|27&nbsp;Sep.&nbsp;2005
||Datamation | [http://itmanagement.earthweb.com/netsys/article.php/3551746 Low cost PCs for the Enterprise]

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|align="right"|06&nbsp;Jun.&nbsp;2005
||estadao.com.br | [http://www.link.estadao.com.br/index.cfm?id_conteudo=3915 Cada criança na escola com um laptop a tiracolo]

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=PRESS RELEASES=
{|
|align="right" valign="top"|Jan.&nbsp;2007
|OLPC has [http://home.businesswire.com/portal/site/google/index.jsp?ndmViewId=news_view&newsId=20070112005706&newsLang=en No Plans] to Commercialize XO Computer.
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|align="right" valign="top"|Jan.&nbsp;2007
|OLPC [http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/070103/20070103005194.html?.v=1 Announces] First-of-Its-Kind User Interface for XO Laptop Computer.
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|align="right" valign="top"|Jan.&nbsp;2007
|Rwanda [http://home.businesswire.com/portal/site/google/index.jsp?ndmViewId=news_view&newsId=20070103005861&newsLang=en Commits] to One Laptop per Child Initiative.
|-
|align="right" valign="top"|Dec.&nbsp;2006
|Low Cost [http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061231/ap_on_hi_te/hundred_dollar_laptop Laptop] Could Tranform Learning.
|}

=[[Video of the OLPC | Video]]=
(Misc. videos of the laptop can be found.)

http://video.globo.com/Videos/Player/Noticias/0,,GIM607884-7823-CRIANCAS+TESTAM+COMPUTADOR+PORTATIL,00.html | Crianças testam computador portátil/ Students test the laptop, GLOBO- BRASIL

http://stanford-online.stanford.edu/courses/ee380/061004-ee380-300.asx | Mark Foster delivers presentation to Standford University

http://www.technologyreview.com/ | Technology Review Mini-Documentary

http://www.radiofarda.com/Article/2007/01/04/f2_Interview-laptop.html | A Brief Demo