What did Nicholas Negroponte expect? His One Laptop Per Child initiative, launched in 2005, had all the right ideals but the wrong strategy. The idea of building a $100 laptop for children in ...

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 ...

One Laptop Per Child shows off the first version of its XO laptop, including many features geared toward helping kids learn in their own environment The hardest thing about learning to use the OLPC ...

O.K., so his big brother John is Director of National Intelligence and delivers daily briefings to the President. But Nicholas Negroponte, 62, is trying to reach a far more challenging audience: the ...

BOSTON (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp. hopes to develop a version of a $3 Windows software suite to run on low-cost laptops that a Massachusetts foundation wants to send to the world's poorest children.

* MIT's Media Lab works to build inexpensive Linux-based laptops for children in need MIT’s venerable Media Lab recently announced an initiative to build low-cost Linux-based laptops for school ...

The One Laptop Per Child project is part hacking puzzle, part social mission, and hard for open source developers to resist participating in. A network of developers who work on much of the most ...

Non-profit OLPC's XO notebook has jumped from its original estimated price of $100 and now faces pricing competition from commercial laptops As component prices drop, the aggressive pricing of ...

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. The $100 laptop computers that Massachusetts Institute of Technology researchers want to get into the hands of the world's children would be durable, flexible and self-reliant. The ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — An Anchorage state representative and a foster child advocacy group are again collecting used laptop computers for foster children. Democrat Les Gara says about 200 laptops ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Credit: Getty Images If you picked up a shiny new laptop for your little ones over the Black ...

The Android seven-inch tablet asks children not what app they want to launch but what they want to be. On Sale For $150: One Laptop Per Child Is Now A Touch Screen Tablet The Android seven-inch tablet ...