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OLPC sued by Nigerians for patent infringement

November 27, 2007 11:59pm PST

In an ironic twist of events, OLPC's Nicholas Negroponte has received a letter from Lagos Analysis Corporation (LANCOR), a U.S.-based Nigerian-owned company that claims the XO laptop infringed on...

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Photos: $100 laptop takes world stage

October 29, 2008 4:52am PDT

MIT's Nicholas Negroponte shows off a hand-cranked laptop designed for kids in developing nations.

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Photos: Meet the OLPC's $75 laptop

May 22, 2008 4:25am PDT

The One Laptop per Child project shows off its laptop of the future. The XO-2, it says, will be dirt cheap, easier to tote, and also an e-book.Even with the price of what used to be known as the...

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Photos: Easy does it with Asustek's 'Eee PC'

June 8, 2007 4:05am PDT

With "easy" in mind, Asustek and Intel have teamed on a 7-inch, low-cost notebook that could even be a challenge to Nicholas Negroponte's OLPC.

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(MIT's latest think tank (photos))

March 9, 2010 11:23am PST

(MIT's latest think tank (photos)) article root One Child Per Laptop? The caption for image #7 says, "...Negroponte left to pursue his $100 computer initiative with the One Child Per Laptop...

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Windows XP comes to the OLPC

May 16, 2008 4:06am PDT

Windows XP comes to the OLPC article root Windows XP comes to the OLPC It is clear that Mr. Negroponte is driven more by practicalities than dogmatism to a particular concept or operating system....

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