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OLPC News is the leading independent voice focused on the One Laptop Per Child program, founded by Nicholas Negroponte, to distribute XO laptops to children in the developing world.

OLPC News is a recognized voice in the OLPC community, even by Nicholas Negroponte himself. The OLPC News blog commands 5,000 readers a day and the OLPC News Forum has over 3,800 members and 28,000 posts on every OLPC-related topic imaginable.

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Mar 11, 2014	One Laptop Per Child may be done	The once-revolutionary One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) project appears to be on its last legs. “The XO-1 laptop is history,” says a story in today’s OLPC News, which has long followed the movement to build and provide an easy-to-use $100 laptop...
Feb 8, 2012	Step 1: give every kid a laptop. Step 2: learning begins?	A student in Paraguay using his OLPC laptop Image courtesy of One Laptop per Child reader comments 123 with 70 posters participating Share this story Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on Reddit Nicholas Negroponte, the head of the On...
Nov 7, 2010	Amish Computing Solutions For The Luddite In Your Life	Could this hand-cranked laptop be marketed to the Amish? Your first guess would likely be "probably not." But surely there's some sort of demand for the simplest of computer tech – something so stripped down that it performs only ...
Oct 5, 2010	OLPC gets $5.6 million from Marvell to build Android tablet	reader comments 15 with 14 posters participating Share this story Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on Reddit The One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) organization has received a $5.6 million grant from hardware component maker Marvell to fun...
Jan 15, 2010	Intel makes progress with Classmate PC for the world’s kids	Intel’s effort to get computers in the hands of the world’s school kids is making good progress, based on the latest information from the chip maker. In 2006, the world’s biggest chip maker started the program of creating low-cost laptops t...
Oct 13, 2009	Pedal power in the desert: OLPC in Afghanistan	One of the issues with the OLPC project has always been power. There’s just not electricity in all the parts of the world where the OLPC is intended to be used. There is a solution available, however, and it’s being tested in Afghanistan. W...
Sep 17, 2009	An OLPC operating system for grown-ups	The One Laptop Per Child project is certainly divisive. The press has largely presented the project as one of big promises and few results. But the project's signature laptop -- the sturdily built, low-cost, resource-constrained XO-1 -- has...
Jun 17, 2009	OLPC banned in many Ethiopia classrooms for being toylike	While this is more a sociological issue than a technological one, it’s still interesting. Pilot programs in Ethiopia with the OLPC XO laptop have hit a major roadblock: teachers resent the device and consider it a toy. The reasons for this ...
Nov 12, 2008	Colombia tests OLPC laptops… running Windows XP	reader comments with 0 posters participating Share this story Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on Reddit The government of Colombia has established a deal to bring the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) project's distinctive XO laptop to t...
Apr 23, 2008	Roundup: Mashups at Web 2.0, Linden Lab gets new executive and more	Here’s the latest action: Mashup companies take over Web 2.0 — InfoWorld profiles three companies making announcements at this week’s conference: Serena, which is launching an online marketplace for business mashups; JackBe, which has a new...
Apr 22, 2008	Walter Bender leaves OLPC	Former President of Software and Content for the OLPC project, Walter Bender, has stepped down after differences with Nicholas Negroponte, founder of the project. He disagreed with Negroponte’s move to put Windows XP on the laptops to incre...
Mar 27, 2008	Overclocking the OLPC for fun and profit	It was just a matter of time before someone overclocked the hell out of one of these things. Thanks to a user named bdleonard over at the OLPC News Forum, you can really kick that 433MHz AMD Geode up a couple notches. One user was able to g...
Jan 25, 2008	OLPC angering donors: “Give 1 Get 1… some day… probably”	reader comments with 0 posters participating Share this story Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on Reddit The One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) initiative launched the Give 1 Get 1 (G1G1) program in November, which allowed individuals in N...
Oct 23, 2007	OLPC looks for manufacturing scale, targets deep-pocketed donors	reader comments with 0 posters participating Share this story Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on Reddit The One Laptop Per Child Foundation is now targeting deep-pocketed donors for its OLPC XO laptop. A new initiative launched by ...
Sep 23, 2007	$100 Laptop, Only $400	Everybody’s been talking about the so called $100 for about two years now and finally you can get your hands on one. Just as long as you send one to a no good kid as well. Besides the fact that you can get a fairly decent Compaq for about t...
Aug 14, 2007	Kids Review The OLPC: They Like It	Real life kids have been getting their hands on the highly anticipated (?) OLPC. And you know what? For all the nay-sayers out there, the kids like it. According to one twelve-year-old who writes better than pretty much all of us here It wa...
Nov 29, 2006	OLPC Guys Like To Play Doom	For the past year, we’re sure that the OLPC team has been hard at work designing the $100 laptop for poor kids in Africa. We’re proud that they’re so committed to the job, but everyone needs a break once in a while. In comes the classic FPS...
Aug 28, 2006	OLPC Laptop No Longer CM1, Now 2B1	It was only last week that everyone reported the One Laptop Per Child project’s first laptop changed its name to the CM1, which stands for Children’s Machine 1. But now their official wiki has removed all references to CM1 and replaced it w...
Aug 25, 2006	OLPC Children's Machine Inches Closer	The One Laptop Per Child initiative announced today that it had named its first “$100 laptop” the Children’s Machine, aka the CM1. Each unit will feature a 400Mhz AMD Geode processor, a 7.5″ LCD display and will be mesh network compliant. I...

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Parsers VC has collected 20 articles mentioning OLPC News, among them “One Laptop Per Child may be done” (Mar 11, 2014) and “Step 1: give every kid a laptop. Step 2: learning begins?” (Feb 8, 2012).

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Yes, OLPC News is active; its latest activity on Parsers VC dates from Mar 20, 2014.