Just a few days ago when OLPC CTO Mary Lou Jepsen announced her departure, optimists were still hopeful that Nicholas Negroponte will turn the things around in no time; after all it all is for a good cause. But just a few days before mass production begin when Intel announced it’s puling the plug on its dealings with Nicholas Negroponte’s brainchild’ things are not looking good at all for OLPC. When Intel joined OLPC’s educational programme last July, the aim was to combine two major attempts …

The OLPC (One Laptop per Child) project seems to encounter another major setback, as its CTO Mary Lou Jepsen is stepping down to pursue a commercial project based on OLPC technologies. Since the day one this project has proved difficult to get off the ground. Now sudden departure of CTO, might be the end of the Give One Get One scheme which sold the laptop commercially to users in the US. According to OLPC they were very successful in “Give One Get …

One Laptop Per Child (OLPC), the Delaware, USA based, non-profit organization, created by faculty members of the MIT Media Lab, set up to oversee The Children’s Machine project and the construction of the XO-1 "$100 laptop". Both the project and the organization were announced at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland in January 2005. It has attracted news whirl, since its birth, once again it’s in limelight reason-Microsoft. Microsoft Corp. this week said that it is working on a version of Windows …