OLPC talk:News

Please add: OLPC-Youth initiative: http://it4yi-wiki.skn.wsinf.edu.pl/YouthandtheOLPCinitiative

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$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)

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 1/10th the power consumption; 1/50rd 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?

An MOU was signed. --Walter 14:17, 11 October 2006 (EDT)

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

New News item

OLPC received Popular Science's Innovation of the Year Grand Award:
http://www.popsci.com/popsci/flat/bown/2006/product_31.html

Kudos.

New York Times

New York Times For $150, Third-World Laptop Stirs a Big Debate

Generic introduction good writing, some quotes, no real news, lots of reader comments.