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This page is monitored by the OLPC team.
2009-present
2005-2008
Late 2008
4th quarter
13 Nov. 2008 | The Editors Weblog - The future of e-readers Part 1: The technology bottleneck |
13 Nov. 2008 | ZDNet Education Blog - More XP OLPCs? |
12 Nov. 2008 | BetaNews - Qualcomm gives the first hints of a market battle with OLPC |
11 Nov. 2008 | GregDek's Blog - OLPC and Windows |
31 Oct. 2008 | LinuxDevices - An OLPC dilemma: Linux or Windows? |
28 Oct. 2008 | This Day Online (Nigeria) - Sokoto Implements ‘One Laptop Per Child’ Programme (summary only, login required) |
25 Oct. 2008 | Yemen Observer - OLPC distributes laptops to children in two schools in Sana’a |
24 Oct. 2008 | ZDNet - OLPC meets XP: Does charm matter? |
21 Oct. 2008 | India Times - We feel very optimistic but are cautious as well: Intel |
3rd quarter
2nd quarter
Press releases
These releases came through the Racepoint Group, OLPC's pro bono PR firm.
- 2008-08-06 : One Laptop per Child expands its presence in Asia with project leads in India and China
- 2008-05-20 : One Laptop per Child frames the next generation of the revolutionary XO laptop, with a lighter dual-touchscreen design.
- 2008-05-15 : Microsoft Windows XP is now available on the XO laptop
- 2008-05-03 : One Laptop per Child appoints Charles Kane as President and Chief Operating Officer
- 2008-01-07 : One Laptop per Child Giving Campaign Raises $35 Million in 2007
- 2007-12-12 : The Kite Runner Inspires Gift Through One Laptop
- 2007-12-05 : Peru launches OLPC with 40,000 laptops, starting with one-classroom schools across the country.
- 2007-12-04 : Birmingham, Alabama commits to One Laptop per Child, with a pilot of 15,000 laptops across the city.
- 2007-11-24 : The Holiday Season Starts with Giving One Laptop
- 2007-10-29 : OLPC wins a bid to provide 100,000 laptops to children in Uruguay, to be overseen by the Uruguayan CEIBAL project
- 2007-10-22 : One Laptop per Child creates the world's "greenest" laptop computer
- 2007-06-11 : Mass Production of XO's begins! at Quanta's Chinese facilities.
- 2007-01-03 : OLPC Announces First-of-Its-Kind User Interface for XO Laptop Computer