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''Readers adding links to press releases and links to published articles into this list are invited to add them such that the date order reads from the most recent items being at the top of the page. Readers are asked please to use the discussion page for any discussions of the press releases and articles so that this page is simply a list of items and links.''


== February 2007 ==

* ABC Radio (Australia): [http://www.abc.net.au/rn/lifematters/stories/2007/1855541.htm abc.net.au] One Laptop per Child in Australia

* The Australian (Australia): [http://people.ubuntu.org.au/%7Eshenki/AustralianBWscan.pdf PDF] | [http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,20867,21293360-12332,00.html news.com.au] Aussie kids may get a laptop each

* Sunday Mail (Adelaide, Australia): [http://people.ubuntu.org.au/~shenki/JoelAdvertiser.pdf PDF] | [http://www.news.com.au/adelaidenow/story/0,22606,21281225-2682,00.html news.com.au] Laptop astounds student.

* Sunday Times (UK): [http://technology.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/tech_and_web/personal_tech/article1394717.ece The £50 laptop to change the world] First look, and review of X0.

* Triple J's Hack (Australia): [http://pipka.org/misc/HackOLPCjan07.mp3 mp3] | Interview with Jim Gettys on Australian radio about OLPC.

== August 2006 ==

* eweek: [http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,2006274,00.asp Interview with Mary Lou Jepsen], higher resolution, 7th the power consumption, 3rd the price of a traditionnal LCD. [http://www.eweek.com/slideshow/0,1206,l=&s=26006&a=186472,00.asp Pictures of the new screen prototype]

* zdnet: [http://news.zdnet.co.uk/hardware/emergingtech/0,39020357,39281496,00.htm 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" [http://www.infoworld.com/article/06/07/24/HNnigeria100laptop_1.html Nigeria buys...] reports, Nigeria buys into $100 laptop concept.
:This was a premature announcement. [[User:Walter|Walter]] 16:07, 31 July 2006 (EDT)

* Wired.com: [http://wired.com/wired/archive/14.08/laptop.html The Laptop Crusade], about the evolution of the Laptops design.

* Technology Review has an [http://www.technologyreview.com/read_article.aspx?id=17194&ch=infotech article on the power sources for the laptop], mentioning the pull-string power source.

== May 2006 ==

* "Der Standard" reports about hardware details [http://derstandard.at/?url=/?id=2464845] (german),
* "Der Standard" shows pictures of the orange maschine [http://derstandard.at/?url=/?id=2458304] (german),
* A press release from the Unicode Consortium issued on: http://www.unicode.org/press/pr-iuc30-3.html

== April 2006 ==

* DesktopLinux.com [http://www.desktoplinux.com/news/NS8245709338.html article] on [[PuppyLinux]] and OLPC, 2006-Apr-07

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Readers adding links to press releases and links to published articles into this list are invited to add them such that the date order reads from the most recent items being at the top of the page. Readers are asked please to use the discussion page for any discussions of the press releases and articles so that this page is simply a list of items and links.


February 2007

  • ABC Radio (Australia): abc.net.au One Laptop per Child in Australia
  • The Australian (Australia): PDF | news.com.au Aussie kids may get a laptop each
  • Sunday Mail (Adelaide, Australia): PDF | news.com.au Laptop astounds student.
  • Triple J's Hack (Australia): mp3 | Interview with Jim Gettys on Australian radio about OLPC.

August 2006

  • 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)

May 2006

April 2006