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CNET UK > Crave > Gadgets
Whatever happened to...? The tech that never took off
Whatever happened to MiniDisc, SPOT and the first iTunes phone? They were hyped to the heavens, yet they never hit the heights. We salute ten technologies that never took off Read more
10 November 2009, 08:00 | Tags: Apple, Microsoft, Sony, Asus W5Fe, iPhone
CNET UK > Editorial blogs > Nate Lanxon
Netbooks: Credit OLPC, not just Asus
Although it hasn't taken the developing world by the storm its designers desired, the One Laptop Per Child concept inspired Asus to develop a low-cost mini laptop for the rest of us Read more
19 November 2008, 17:36 | Tags: Asus, OLPC, Asus Eee PC 701, OLPC XO-1 (One Laptop Per Child), netbooks
CNET UK > Crave > Laptops
One Laptop per Child 'Give One, Get One' scheme coming to Europe
Nicholas Negroponte, founder and chairman of the OLPC project, told our sister site, ZDNet UK, this week that version two of 'Give One, Get One' (G1G1) would enable European users to participate in the scheme Read more
14 November 2008, 10:58 | Tags: Amazon, Microsoft, OLPC, Laptops
CNET UK > News > Laptops
Microsoft to trial XP on OLPC laptops
Although the company has rejected plans to develop a dual-boot iteration of Windows XP to run on XO machines, it will develop a version of XP Read more
14 January 2008, 10:02 | Tags: Microsoft, OLPC, Linux, Windows XP, DRM
CNET UK > News > Laptops
OLPC laptop to go on sale in US
For a limited time, US buyers will be able to buy, for $399, one XO laptop for themselves and one for a child in the developing world Read more
25 September 2007, 08:00 | Tags: OLPC, Quanta, Red Hat, solar panels
CNET UK > News > Laptops
Brazilian kids to get first $100 laptops
School children in Brazil will be the first to get their hands on the much talked about $100 (£50) laptop, with more than 1,000 expected to be in use from early next year Read more
CNET UK > News > Desktops
Photos: Computer Aid warms Chile
Computer Aid, which has shipped a total of 70,000 refurbished PCs to the developing world, has just delivered 7,000 computers to Chilean schools Read more
5 July 2006, 09:19 | Tags: Computer Aid, OLPC, routers, Desktops
CNET UK > News > Laptops
$100 laptop gets working model
Nicholas Negroponte's One Laptop Per Child project for low-cost PCs for developing nations shows off a vivid orange PC and trims its software load Read more
25 May 2006, 09:29 | Tags: Intel, Microsoft, OLPC, Quanta, Red Hat
CNET UK > News > Laptops
Quanta to build the $100 laptop
The world's largest laptop manufacturer will make the $100 box, championed by MIT, that aims to bring computing to the developing world Read more
14 December 2005, 10:07 | Tags: Dell, Google, Intel, OLPC, Quanta
CNET UK > News > Laptops
$100 wind-up laptop due in late 2006
MIT's Nicholas Negroponte and UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan have announced details of a hand-cranked laptop for children in the developing world Read more
18 November 2005, 09:38 | Tags: Apple, Google, Microsoft, Red Hat, Linux
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