One Laptop Per Child, an ambitious project to bring computing to the developing world's children, has considerable momentum. Years of work by engineers and scientists have paid off in a pioneering low ...

What did Nicholas Negroponte expect? His One Laptop Per Child initiative, launched in 2005, had all the right ideals but the wrong strategy. The idea of building a $100 laptop for children in ...

Whether you’re buying the first laptop for your fifth-grader or a graduation gift for your 18-year-old, deciding which model to get can feel like homework. Beyond the basics—Chromebook, Mac, ...

SEATTLE (AP) — The nonprofit organization that has tried to produce a $100 laptop for children in the world's poorest places is throwing in the towel on that idea - and jumping on the tablet bandwagon ...

O.K., so his big brother John is Director of National Intelligence and delivers daily briefings to the President. But Nicholas Negroponte, 62, is trying to reach a far more challenging audience: the ...

One Laptop Per Child shows off the first version of its XO laptop, including many features geared toward helping kids learn in their own environment The hardest thing about learning to use the OLPC ...

What has been called by some the world's most innovative laptop, developed by the non-profit One Laptop per Child (OLPC) initiative specifically as an educational tool to help children in developing ...

BOSTON (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp. hopes to develop a version of a $3 Windows software suite to run on low-cost laptops that a Massachusetts foundation wants to send to the world's poorest children.

Sitting behind a rickety desk in a room with cement floors and water-stained walls, Faina Iradukunda, 13, tinkers with a rudimentary animation program on a shiny green-and-white laptop. A cartoon cat ...

Black Friday is a great opportunity to pick up a shiny new laptop for your little ones, but the unfortunate reality is that the internet is stuffed with threats to their digital privacy. The good news ...