News - Powered by Yahoo NewsEA Donates Original City-Building Game, SimCity, to "One Laptop per Child" Initiative
"Today Electronic Arts Inc. announced the company will donate the original SimCity--the blockbuster 1989 game credited with giving rise to the city-building game genre--to each computer in the One Laptop per Child (OLPC) initiative.
Fri, 09 Nov 2007 22:07:46 GMT - (Linux Today)
Uruguay Places First Order for 'One Laptop per Child'
The 'One Laptop per Child' organization received its first order for the 'XO'; 100,000 laptops purchased by Uruguay.
Fri, 09 Nov 2007 22:47:02 GMT - (Global Envision)
Asus ships mini-laptop, confirms Windows version
? Nov. 01, 2007 ? Asus has begun shipping its two-pound mini laptop, and says the system will be available with "Windows" by the end of the year. The Asus Eee PC uses flash storage and is based on a 900 MHz Celeron M processor. ...
Fri, 09 Nov 2007 22:15:37 GMT - (WindowsForDevices)
Hands On With One Laptop Per Child's XO
There's been quite a fuss made over the XO, developed by Nicholas Negroponte's One Laptop Per Child ( OLPC ). The OLPC vision was to design a low-cost, but powerful connected PC in order to provide kids all over the world with Internet-power. OLPC wants to sell the XO, in bulk, to third-world countries. After two years of heavy-duty publicity, the XO finally went into production this ...
Fri, 09 Nov 2007 20:54:59 GMT - (Yahoo! Tech Advisors)
Laptop thief stole more than computer
Each time the laptop computer powered up, a smiling picture of Catherine Lee, with her long black hair pulled into a ponytail over her shoulder, would fill the entire screen.
Fri, 09 Nov 2007 08:07:23 GMT - (The Sacramento Bee)
LETTER: Laptop security is a personal, not university, responsibility
In regards to Isaac Betesh's letter to the editor, "BU should stress laptop security," (Nov. 8, p. 5), we feel that students have a personal responsibility for keeping their laptops protected, and it should not become the university's job to police petty theft.
Fri, 09 Nov 2007 12:43:55 GMT - (The Daily Free Press)
Laptop handout was important for KCKPS
We did it! This past Tuesday and Wednesday, the Kansas City, Kansas Public Schools District handed out almost 4,000 laptop computers to high school students. If you were fortunate enough to have been in one of our schools during the laptop rollout, you witnessed an electrifying atmosphere.
Fri, 09 Nov 2007 07:20:19 GMT - (Kansas City Kansan)
Laptop sparks attic blaze
A LAPTOP sparked an attic fire in Calne yesterday evening.
Fri, 09 Nov 2007 10:47:48 GMT - (Wiltshire Times)
Laptop theft concerns customers
Chico-based Butte Community Bank notified an undisclosed number of customers this week that a laptop computer probably containing their names, addresses, Social Security numbers and account numbers was stolen in mid-October.
Fri, 09 Nov 2007 08:08:02 GMT - (Oroville Mercury-Register)
Princeton Sextet Performs Laptop Symphonies
All Things Considered, November 8, 2007 - The Princeton Laptop Orchestra is a six-person ensemble that performs music via computers. The performers sit on the floor with computers on their laps, with six-sided speakers next to them. They play original compositions written for the laptop.
Thu, 08 Nov 2007 23:34:22 GMT - (NPR)