OLPC talk:News
Please add: OLPC-Youth initiative: http://it4yi-wiki.skn.wsinf.edu.pl/YouthandtheOLPCinitiative
$4 million order from Nigeria, Brazil, Argentina, and Thailand: http://www.desktoplinux.com/news/NS7131519895.html
- The OLPC spokesperson was misquoted: no agreement had been signed. We continue to cooperate with Thailand, Brasil, Argentina, and Nigeria, but no one has committed to purchase laptops nor has OLPC asked anyone to sign a purchase agreement yet. We apologize for any confusion.Walter 21:50, 1 August 2006 (EDT)
Contents
Milestone missing
This page has a list of Milestones. Shouldn't it mention this one?
(2006-08-05)
1. We have reached an important milestone this week: the dual-mode now display works in prototype! We have been counting on Mary Lou Jepsen's new approach to LCD displays to help us achieve our price and power consumption targets and enable our expected models of indoor and outdoor use, while also rapidly achieving mass production. We now have a display that can readily be mass produced in standard LCD factories, with no process changes. Our display has higher resolution than 95% of the laptop displays on the market today; approximately 1/7th the power consumption; 1/3rd the price; sunlight readability; and room-light readability with the backlight off.
Costa Rica Press Article
Please add the following press article on Costa Rica's press regarding the OLPC initiative. Includes an interview with Prof. Cavallo.
http://www.nacion.com/ln_ee/2006/septiembre/05/aldea818336.html
-Adrian Garcia
Mesoamerica www.mesoamerica.com
Colombia Press Article
http://www.eltiempo.com/nacion/cafe/2006-10-09/ARTICULO-WEB-NOTA_INTERIOR-3277364.html
Libya
The New York Times among others is reporting that Libya is getting 1.2 million laptops along with servers and support, etc. for $250 million. Is this an order, or just an indication of intention to place an order?
Also the article quoted "Mr. Negroponte" as saying that Windows was not being used for price reasons, which sounded a bit odd. I thought that it was to let the students experament with the OS, etc.
- The quote regarding Windows was inaccurate. --Walter 14:17, 11 October 2006 (EDT)
This is also on Al-Jazeera Mx44 11:18, 13 October 2006 (EDT)
Please date news
Please include dates in news items. It is impossible to tell what the pace of development is, or even how hot the latest development is.--Mokurai 04:27, 16 October 2006 (EDT)
- The News is updated every weekend. There is a dated archive available at http://laptop.media.mit.edu/laptopnews.nsf/latest/news and it is safe to assume anything reported in the current news section is at most one week old. --Walter 17:44, 16 October 2006 (EDT)
Broken Link
Probably at thier end
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/10/06/AR2006100600901.html
6 Oct. 2006 Washington Post | $100 Laptop May Be at Security Forefront
Some news clips
Following in the footsteps of Dell and Apple, Japanese electronics maker Toshiba has been forced to recall defective laptop batteries made by Sony. Unlike the Dell and Apple products, however, the Toshiba batteries do not run the risk of overheating and hence are not a safety threat. The batteries instead can potentially fail to charge and discharge properly, according to Toshiba.
北京写字楼Toshiba and Lenovo have become the latest computer brands to recall Sony-made laptop batteries.
Lenovo said it took the decision after one of its laptops caught fire at Los Angeles Airport. Meanwhile Toshiba said it did so on the advice of Sony.
This brings the recall to a worldwide total of over seven million batteries following Dell's earlier recall of 4.1 million Sony batteries and Apple's 1.8 million.
A Handful of International Airlines Now Require Owners of Certain Dell and Apple Laptops to Remove the Batteries While Onboard
Sony laptop batteries came under further fire today after Lenovo confirmed that the laptop, which caught fire at the Los Angeles International Airport over the last weekend was a ThinkPad equipped with Sony batteries.
The laptop incident was described on the web site Something Awful. A man ran up the wrong way and pushed aside boarding passengers and once he confirmed that no one was in the vicinity, he dropped his laptop. Once he did that the machine burst into flames.
Japanese electronics giant Matsushita, the maker of Panasonic products, has begun recalling some 6,000 laptop batteries due to fears that they may overheat.
Matsushita Electric Industrial is recalling lithium-ion batteries installed in Panasonic-brand notebook computers assembled in April and May last year and sold in the domestic market.
