Blogosphere is simply amazing, in fact whole virtual life is amazing. You never get bored with this. Since Apple decided to launch iPhone half of the net have one discussion, well now things got even more crazier, since Apple’s iPhone is out. Did you know that Apple also changed it’s Name from Apple Computers to “Apple Inc.”? If you are fan of tracking news you will notice since iPhone announcement at CES, every news source, tech blog just have one thing their title- “iPhone”. In this rubble of Apple’s glorious innovation we almost forgot the “One Laptop Per Child project“.

They made an major announcement yesterday. The backers of the One Laptop Per Child project plan to release the machine on general sale next year. Before you start to partying, wait there is something more in it. But customers will have to buy two laptops at once - with the second going to the developing world. So as you can see if you are living in Europe or America or even in Oceania, forget about it. Five million of the laptops will be delivered to developing nations this summer, in one of the most ambitious educational exercises ever undertaken. Michalis Bletsas, chief connectivity officer for the project, said they were working with eBay to sell the machine.

If we started selling the laptop now, we would do very good business,

…But our focus right now is on the launch in the developing world.

The laptop has been developed to be as low cost, durable and as simple to use as possible. The eventual aim is to sell the machine to developing countries for $100 but the current cost of the machine is about $150. The first countries to sign up to buying the machine, which is officially dubbed XO, include Brazil, Argentina, Uruguay, Nigeria, Libya, Pakistan and Thailand. The XO’s software has been designed to work specifically in an educational context. It has built-in wireless networking and video conferencing so that groups of children can work together.  Google is also in this program, to help the children publish their work on the Internet so that the world can observe the “fruits of their labour”.

The plan was to put the machine on sale to the general public “sometime next year”.