Ogun - Checkmate (Architects Recording Studio/Real On Purpose Ent.) This week in the City Paper I reviewed Ogun's new mixtape, although really it's been out for a few weeks already so you should already have it. Last year we named him the best male MC in our Best Of Baltimore issue and I really feel...

Well, our interest was certainly piqued by that OLPC XO-2 mockup that surfaced yesterday, and now the Guardian is saying that the hardware development will take place open source. This is certainly fitting with the company's idealistic ethos, and it'll be interesting to see what other companies brin...

OLPC, Education, Computing Robert Buderi wrote: For those inspired by Nicholas Negroponte’s vision of bringing affordable computing to every child on the planet, it was a sad day early this month when the One Laptop Per Child Foundation he founded announced it was laying off half its staff and...

The Places Bar in Windows appears in every save and open dialog in Windows. It is placed on the left side of the dialog displaying five locations that can be reached by clicking on them, think of favorites or quick links and you pretty much got it. I already covered one application that can edit tha...

Filed under: news Gizmodo has the first ever footage of an OLPC dual-booting both its default OS, Sugar Linux, and Windows XP. The BIOS was not originally intended to boot XP, so it had to be modified for this to work. The XO's screen flipper and directional buttons work in XP as well. It's not all ...

Deepathukral: As it has been playing for eons, Solar energy will keep playing a big role in our lives. Especially in underdeveloped countries which are not primarily depended on the western-style centralized power grids. And meant for such nations is the much sought after and talked about One Laptop...

OLPC showcases XO-2 laptop images Nicholas Negroponte, chairman of OLPC has showcased the images of the next generation XO Laptop which they are calling XO-2. They are aiming to start manufacturing this new laptop in 2010. OLPC aims to bring the cost of manufacturing the device down to around USD 75...

One Laptop Per Child set to re-launch Give One Get One program The OLPC project has announced that they are soon going to resume their Give One Get One program which enables customers to buy an XO Laptop for USD 400. Every laptop sold through this offer results in donation of one laptop to a child i...

Wired Campus News noted earlier this week that HP has joined Intel, OLPC, and Asus with their own ultra mobile PC (UMPC), the HP Mini Note PC. There are a variety of configurations, including Windows Vista or SUSE Linux flavors with either a flash-based or more traditional mechanical hard drive. The...

Hi, I wanted to provide information about the recent meeting of the Houston OLPC meeting, which featured Samuel Klein, the director of community content.   I don’t know how much of these nuggets of information was off-the-cuff and how much is official; use your own judgment. After th...