Proving once again that he’s still got love for the home team, Nick Negroponte has announced the impending launch of OLPC America, a division of the organization with its own director and chairman that will bring low-cost laptops to US students. According to an IDG interview with Negroponte, distributing the XO stateside has always been in the plans, arguing that “to have the United States be the only country that’s not in the OLPC agenda would be kind of ridiculous.” Besides helping out kids at home, NickNeg anticipates that a domestic deployment will accelerate the project to critical mass in terms of adoption, software, and developer support. OLPC America will reportedly work with individual state governments to handle the details of the disbursement, although specifics of the plan will remain under wraps until the official launch later this year.
Archives for the day Sunday, January 13th, 2008
13 Jan
Here we go again: CES and Macworld to overlap in 2009
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Oh dear lord, we aren’t even through this year’s CES / Macworld one-two punch and we just happened upon some distressing news for the 200,000+ tech trade show-goers and media that attend both: they’re overlapping in 2009. AGAIN. Granted, things appear to be a little different this time around — Steve and the Cupertino crew will be firing the first shots on Tuesday, January 6th, with Macworld continuing through Friday the 9th, while CES opens up on Thursday, the 8th, and wraps up Sunday, the 11th. But didn’t Jobs and Shapiro say this thing would never happen again? Actually, come to think of it, no — they merely “agreed it would be nice if they didn’t overlap.” Yeah, it would really would be nice, guys, you should try making it happen more than once every couple of years.
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