http://www.silicon.com Results for Negroponte en-us http://www.silicon.com/i/s/feeds/simple_logo.gif http://www.silicon.com 124 50 News feed from silicon.com http://chkpt.zdnet.com/chkpt/siliconfeed/http://www.silicon.com/research/specialreports/agenda-setters-2009/nicholas-negroponte-39550653.htm Nicholas Negroponte, the man behind the XO - the device formerly known as the $100 laptop - makes his third appearance on the Agenda Setters list. While his own agenda of bringing better education to the developing world through a mini laptop may... editorial@silicon.com (Silicon Editorial) Wed, 30 Sep 2009 11:15:13 +0000 http://chkpt.zdnet.com/chkpt/siliconfeed/http://hardware.silicon.com/desktops/0,39024645,39421967,00.htm XO Generation 1.5 will arrive in November, OLPC chief Nicholas Negroponte told silicon.com sister site ZDNet UK on Monday. The first of the XO 2.0 laptops will launch in early 2011, Negroponte said. The One Laptop per Child project's XO laptop will... editorial@silicon.com (Silicon Editorial) Tue, 21 Apr 2009 08:59:02 +0000 http://chkpt.zdnet.com/chkpt/siliconfeed/http://hardware.silicon.com/desktops/0,39024645,39401698,00.htm Earlier this month, OLPC founder Nicholas Negroponte announced the organisation's intention to open source its hardware design and invite commercial PC makers to copy it. In an email interview with ZDNet Asia, Negroponte said the OLPC intends to... editorial@silicon.com (Silicon Editorial) Mon, 02 Mar 2009 07:49:01 +0000 http://chkpt.zdnet.com/chkpt/siliconfeed/http://management.silicon.com/careers/0,39024671,39373296,00.htm Nicholas Negroponte, founder of the group that aims to provide low-cost laptops to children in developing countries, announced the cuts in a company blog post: "Like many other nonprofits that are facing tough economic times, One Laptop per Child... editorial@silicon.com (Silicon Editorial) Thu, 08 Jan 2009 07:41:02 +0000 http://chkpt.zdnet.com/chkpt/siliconfeed/http://hardware.silicon.com/desktops/0,39024645,39346844,00.htm On Thursday last week, the founder and chairman of the OLPC project, Nicholas Negroponte, said that the XO version on sale via Amazon would not have the dual-boot facility that allows the laptop to run either Microsoft Windows or the OLPC's open... editorial@silicon.com (Silicon Editorial) Wed, 19 Nov 2008 07:24:02 +0000 http://chkpt.zdnet.com/chkpt/siliconfeed/http://hardware.silicon.com/desktops/0,39024645,39340988,00.htm Nicholas Negroponte, founder and chairman of the OLPC project, told silicon.com sister site ZDNet UK on Wednesday that version two of Give One, Get One (G1G1) will enable European users to participate in the scheme. editorial@silicon.com (Silicon Editorial) Thu, 13 Nov 2008 15:05:02 +0000 http://chkpt.zdnet.com/chkpt/siliconfeed/http://www.silicon.com/research/specialreports/agenda-setters-2008/jonney-shih-39295148.htm The netbook concept was no doubt inspired by Nicholas Negroponte's One Laptop Per Child project to bring low-cost machines to school kids in the developing world. Jonney Shih, CEO of PC and graphics card maker Asus, earns an Agenda Setters nod for... editorial@silicon.com (Silicon Editorial) Tue, 07 Oct 2008 08:34:02 +0000 http://chkpt.zdnet.com/chkpt/siliconfeed/http://networks.silicon.com/webwatch/0,39024667,39267367,00.htm Nicholas Negroponte OLPC Yahoo! s board of directors won strong backing from shareholders at its annual meeting on Friday, with Jerry Yang, the company's embattled CEO, receiving 85 per cent of the vote in his favour. editorial@silicon.com (Silicon Editorial) Mon, 04 Aug 2008 09:53:02 +0000 http://chkpt.zdnet.com/chkpt/siliconfeed/http://www.silicon.com/retailandleisure/0,3800011842,39266496,00.htm Nicholas Negroponte OLPC Infosys CEO Kris Gopalakrishnan is an unassuming man, who doesn't use his position to be imposing. It's less important for him to be the company's controller than to look like he is. editorial@silicon.com (Silicon Editorial) Fri, 01 Aug 2008 11:37:01 +0000 http://chkpt.zdnet.com/chkpt/siliconfeed/http://management.silicon.com/smedirector/0,39024679,39266042,00.htm This approach is most effective when the raw product or service can be digitised and distributed to the point of use, as Nicholas Negroponte noted in his book Being Digital, shipping bits, not atoms. Now's the time they should be swapping their... editorial@silicon.com (Silicon Editorial) Thu, 31 Jul 2008 10:00:00 +0000 http://chkpt.zdnet.com/chkpt/siliconfeed/http://networks.silicon.com/mobile/0,39024665,39263795,00.htm Tourists and locals on the Greek Island of Patmos will soon be able to enjoy island-wide wi-fi web access courtesy of $100 laptop founder Nicholas Negroponte's passion for the web. But today it plays host to Negroponte who owns a holiday home on it... editorial@silicon.com (Silicon Editorial) Thu, 24 Jul 2008 13:23:01 +0000 http://chkpt.zdnet.com/chkpt/siliconfeed/http://comment.silicon.com/weeklyroundup/0,39024756,39230405,00.htm Speaking of which, Negroponte has boldly predicted that the overall cost of the device would be $75 by 2010. OLPC founder Nicholas Negroponte said in a statement: "Based on feedback from governments, educators and most important, from the children... editorial@silicon.com (Silicon Editorial) Fri, 23 May 2008 16:07:02 +0000 http://chkpt.zdnet.com/chkpt/siliconfeed/http://hardware.silicon.com/pdas/0,39024643,39228186,00.htm When it goes on sale in 2010 the XO-2's price is expected to fall to just $75, taking it below the original $100 price target set by OLPC founder Nicholas Negroponte. Nicholas Negroponte said in a statement: "Based on feedback from governments... editorial@silicon.com (Silicon Editorial) Wed, 21 May 2008 16:42:02 +0000 http://chkpt.zdnet.com/chkpt/siliconfeed/http://networks.silicon.com/telecoms/0,39024659,39184598,00.htm Nicholas Negroponte BT's CEO Ben Verwaayen is to step down as CEO on 31 May 2008 after more than six years at the telco where he championed its push into broadband and helped it dodge regulator Ofcom's axe. editorial@silicon.com (Silicon Editorial) Tue, 08 Apr 2008 13:01:02 +0000 http://chkpt.zdnet.com/chkpt/siliconfeed/http://networks.silicon.com/webwatch/0,39024667,39170470,00.htm Nicholas Negroponte Google, Yahoo! and News Corp's MySpace.com have announced they have formed the OpenSocial Foundation, a not-for-profit group to support the OpenSocial initiative that Google kick-started last year to promote a universal standard... editorial@silicon.com (Silicon Editorial) Wed, 26 Mar 2008 07:33:01 +0000 http://chkpt.zdnet.com/chkpt/siliconfeed/http://management.silicon.com/itdirector/0,39024673,39170297,00.htm In the wake of a spat with former partner Intel and a reorganisation, Nicholas Negroponte is looking for a chief executive for his One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) organisation, according to BusinessWeek. OLPC chairman Negroponte said in an interview... editorial@silicon.com (Silicon Editorial) Fri, 07 Mar 2008 07:20:02 +0000 http://chkpt.zdnet.com/chkpt/siliconfeed/http://www.silicon.com/financialservices/0,3800010322,39170228,00.htm Nicholas Negroponte OLPC Nandan Nilekani is pretty much a legend in his own lifetime. Co-founder of Indian outsourcing giant Infosys, foundation board member of the World Economic Forum, co-founder of the Indian National Association of Software and... editorial@silicon.com (Silicon Editorial) Mon, 03 Mar 2008 15:55:02 +0000 http://chkpt.zdnet.com/chkpt/siliconfeed/http://networks.silicon.com/webwatch/0,39024667,39169899,00.htm Nicholas Negroponte OLPC Microsoft today made a $44.6bn offer for web giant Yahoo! valuing the company 62 per cent higher than its latest stock value. According to Microsoft, the bid is intended to better position the two companies in the online... editorial@silicon.com (Silicon Editorial) Fri, 01 Feb 2008 14:49:02 +0000 http://chkpt.zdnet.com/chkpt/siliconfeed/http://software.silicon.com/os/0,39024651,39169644,00.htm The news comes despite OLPC chairman, Nicholas Negroponte, saying OLPC was working with Microsoft to put both Windows and Linux onto the laptops. Negroponte hit out, saying the chipmaker had "contributed nothing" to OLPC. editorial@silicon.com (Silicon Editorial) Fri, 11 Jan 2008 12:26:01 +0000 http://chkpt.zdnet.com/chkpt/siliconfeed/http://hardware.silicon.com/desktops/0,39024645,39169585,00.htm Nicholas Negroponte, the founder of One Laptop per Child (OLPC), has hit out at Intel's decision to leave the $100 laptop project, accusing the chip-maker of contributing nothing while it was a member. editorial@silicon.com (Silicon Editorial) Mon, 07 Jan 2008 16:23:01 +0000