As One Laptop Per Child wraps up commercial sales of its XO laptop, a user thinks keeping the XO available will have great benefits for the nonprofit and its mission As commercial sales of One Laptop ...

Mary Lou Jepsen, the XO laptop’s designer and OLPC’s CTO, split from the project a little over a week ago to “commercialize” some of the tech she developed for the project—the display in ...

The One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) Project is asking software coders to develop free, open-source educational computer games for the XO laptop, continuing its push toward a September launch date. OLPC on ...

Another entry in the swelling mound of reports that the XO Laptop isn’t so noob-friendly after all—people needing help getting ’em going doesn’t spell “sweet” on the ease-of-use front. This guy saw ...

Amazon.com has announced that it will begin selling One Laptop Per Child’s (OLPC) XO laptop on its Web site starting on November 17th. Amazon says that the XO laptop will be sold in the same way as ...

The One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) association plans to launch the upcoming second generation of its low-cost XO laptop in the first quarter of 2010, according to an official from the group. The XO-2, an ...

Show me the money! It’s Tuesday’s IT Blogwatch: in which the One Laptop Per Child gang give in, allowing ordinary Joes to buy one. Not to mention the risks of medical treatment abroad… Nancy Gohring ...

In this episode of Unboxing Live, we open up the OLPC XO-1. If that doesn’t sound familiar, this is the infamous One Laptop Per Child computer, aimed to help children in third-world countries with ...

Mary Lou Jepsen stirred up a controversy when she left the One Laptop Per Child nonprofit effort in December to start her own for-profit company, Pixel Qi, with the goal to create a $75 laptop using ...

Sitting behind a rickety desk in a room with cement floors and water-stained walls, Faina Iradukunda, 13, tinkers with a rudimentary animation program on a shiny green-and-white laptop. A cartoon cat ...

Aimed at helping educate children in the poorest developing countries, OLPC's G1G1 (Give One Get One) promotion asks Amazon.com customers to buy either an XO laptop for $199, or buy one laptop to keep ...

As commercial sales of One Laptop Per Child‘s XO laptop close Monday, a user tracking the nonprofit effort said continued commercial availability of the laptop could benefit OLPC’s nonprofit effort, ...