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<title>Neonode to bring multi-touch tech to OLPC's XO Touch</title>
<link>http://www.electronista.com/articles/12/07/26/olpc.partners.with.neonode.to.bring.mutlitouch.tech.to.educational.notebooks/</link>
<description>&#60;img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/article_images/article_thumbnail/1343327347_olpcxotouchin.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' /><![CDATA[As expected, One Laptop Per Child's next ultra-affordable notebook will sport a multi-touch display, but it will be called the XO Touch and not XO-1.75. The technology will come thanks to a newly started partnership with Neonode. It will get a 7.5-inch display, according to SlashGear....]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jul 2012 18:29:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Hands on: OLPC XO 3.0 tablet</title>
<link>http://www.electronista.com/articles/12/01/08/basic.hardware.for.widespread.adoption/</link>
<description>&#60;img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/news/1112/olpc-sml.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' /><![CDATA[Marvell brought its XO 3.0 tabletóthe brainchild of One Laptop Per Childóto Las Vegas ahead of CES, where Electronista took the opportunity to finally handle the education-focused device. Although the tablet shares many hardware features with Android-based offerings, the physical build and OLPC's own Linux-based Sugar OS offer a much different experience....]]></description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jan 2012 04:40:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>OLPC XO 3.0 tablet to show at CES with Android, Sugar</title>
<link>http://www.electronista.com/articles/12/01/06/olpc.xo.3.gets.long.overdue.unveiling/</link>
<description>&#60;img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/news/1201/olpcxo3.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' /><![CDATA[The One Laptop Per Child project's long-in-waiting XO-3 tablet, now called the XO 3.0, will get its formal unveiling at CES.  The eight-inch, 1024x768 slate will have a ruggedized body to survive rural schools and, like the original notebooks, consumes very little power.  OLPC notes that it can take energy from a solar panel and that a hand crank can give it 10 minutes of power for every minute of...]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sat, 07 Jan 2012 04:10:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>OLPC XO-3 to be airdropped on remote villages</title>
<link>http://www.electronista.com/articles/11/11/02/organization.to.take.hands.off.approach/</link>
<description>&#60;img align='left' src='http://cdn1.macnn.com/news/1107/olpcxo3in.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' /><![CDATA[The One Laptop per Child project will reportedly include plans to airdrop the XO-3 tablet onto remote villages. Organization chairman Nicholas Negroponte told Open Mobile conference attendees the tablets would be distributed in some areas using a hands-off approach. Researchers would wait an entire year before returning to the villages to study the outcome....]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 03 Nov 2011 01:30:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>3M invests in Pixel Qi's outdoor display tech </title>
<link>http://www.electronista.com/articles/11/09/12/transflective.lcds.much.more.visible.outdoors/</link>
<description>&#60;img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/news/1109/pixelqism.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' /><![CDATA[3M's New Ventures organization has invested in Pixel Qi Corp., a developer of next generation LCD panels. Pixel Qi's unique screens can generate either e-paper output or high-intensity images for much better outdoor visibility than other contemporary LCDs. Mary Lou Jepsen, co-founder and CEO of Pixel Qi, said the funding would accelerate the company's product into the mass consumer market. She als...]]></description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 12 Sep 2011 17:15:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>OLPC XO-3 to get satellite Internet, solar power</title>
<link>http://www.electronista.com/articles/11/07/20/olpc.xo.3.due.early.next.year.for.under.100/</link>
<description>&#60;img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/news/1107/olpcxo3in.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' /><![CDATA[One Laptop Per Child's delayed XO-3 tablet for children in developing countries will get rubber covers that will not only protect the device but may also have solar chargers, satellite Internet or external keyboard connections. OLPC founder and chairman Nicholas Negroponte during an interview with PCWorld revealed that he hoped to draw more interest through the features, which are targeted at coun...]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 20 Jul 2011 20:45:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Apple hires Navy, NSA expert as global security lead</title>
<link>http://www.electronista.com/articles/11/01/22/apple.gets.navy.guru.david.rice.as.security.head/</link>
<description>&#60;img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/news/1101/apple-davidrice.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' /><![CDATA[Apple has quietly hired David Rice as its Global Director of Security, multiple insiders said on Saturday.  The now former Monterey Group executive director built most of his experience as a cryptology officer in the US Navy and was also a Global Network Vulnerability analyst for the NSA.  AllThingsD noted that he might be best known in public for Geekonomics, a 2007 book that argued computer secu...]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sat, 22 Jan 2011 22:05:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>OLPC delays XO-3 tablet to improve screen durability</title>
<link>http://www.electronista.com/articles/10/11/03/device.still.on.track.for.feb.release/</link>
<description>&#60;img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/news/1005/olpcxo-3-2.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' /><![CDATA[One Laptop Per Child chairman Nicholas Negroponte has admitted that his organization's XO-3 tablet has been delayed. The device was originally scheduled to arrive on the market late this year, however the project has been pushed back with an anticipated launch 45 days after January's CES expo....]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 03 Nov 2010 18:25:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>OLPC head: tablets must be more constructive than the iPad</title>
<link>http://www.electronista.com/articles/10/09/30/olpcs.leader.says.xo.3.more.creative.than.ipad/</link>
<description>&#60;img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/news/1009/olpc-negroponte.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' /><![CDATA[One Laptop Per Child project founder Nicholas Negroponte told those at the Mobilize conference today that tablets needed to be more creativity-driven than the iPad.  While not directly critical of Apple's design, the OLPC lead said Apple was primarily making "peripherals for iTunes" that were meant for passive consumption.  For devices like the XO-3 tablet, the focus had to be on active learning a...]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 30 Sep 2010 23:10:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>OLPC XO-1.75 to support multi-touch</title>
<link>http://www.electronista.com/articles/10/07/08/olpc.working.on.bringing.multi.touch.to.xo.175/</link>
<description>&#60;img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/news/1007/olpcin.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' /><![CDATA[The OLPC engineering team this week announced new software is on the way that would bring with it multi-touch support. The updated Sugar OS to make this possible will make its debut in the upcoming XO-1.75 child notebook. The embedded controller will have an open codebase, with one small exception, and is believed to become the first notebook with open embedded controller code....]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 08 Jul 2010 20:50:00 GMT</pubDate>
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