OLPC in the News

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February 2007

• Sunday Times (UK): The £50 laptop to change the world First look, and review of X0.

• Sunday Mail (Adelaide, Australia): Pdf Scan of story | news.com.au Laptop astounds student.

August 2006

• eweek: Interview with Mary Lou Jepsen, higher resolution, 7th the power consumption, 3rd the price of a traditionnal LCD. Pictures of the new screen prototype

• zdnet: Trials to begin within weeks, "Trials start everywhere at the same time," in Nigeria in September and Thailand in October, the "B-Machines", should be produced in November, he added. These devices will be "tested to destruction".

July 2006

• "infoworld.com" Nigeria buys... reports, Nigeria buys into $100 laptop concept.

This was a premature announcement. Walter 16:07, 31 July 2006 (EDT)

• Wired.com: The Laptop Crusade, about the evolution of the Laptops design.

• Technology Review has an article on the power sources for the laptop, mentioning the pull-string power source. 2006-07-25

May 2006

• "Der Standard" reports about hardware details [1] (german), 2006-05-31
• "Der Standard" shows pictures of the orange maschine [2] (german), 2006-05-24
• A press release from the Unicode Consortium issued on 2006-05-08: http://www.unicode.org/press/pr-iuc30-3.html

April 2006

• DesktopLinux.com article on PuppyLinux and OLPC, 2006-Apr-07