Topic: Nicholas Negroponte

Laptops for Kids and Shared Village-wide Cell Phones can Fight Systemic Deep Poverty

Negroponte and Quadir: How Laptops and Cell Phones Attack Systemic Poverty in Developing CountriesREAD»

No Child Left Offline

The Fast Interview: MIT Professor Nicholas Negroponte on Intel's "dishonesty" and the long, tough road to the $100 laptop.READ»

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One Laptop Per Child: Failure is not an Option

The news that the XO Laptop developed by the One Laptop Per Child foundation is launching a buy-one-get-one sale to encourage first world consumers to help fund laptops for children in developing countries has spawned an eager chorus ...READ»

Why India's $10 Laptop is a Load of Hype

The tech world has been abuzz about reports that India is developing it's own ultra low-cost PC, peaking with its supposed "unveiling" yesterday. But the Sakshat laptop turned out to be nothing at all like the official hype had ...READ»

Radio Shack's $99 Netbook Beats OLPC To The Bottom

Nick Negroponte's One Laptop Per Child XO PC scheme never made it below the magic $100 barrier that it was originally touted at and now it looks like the march of technology, and the netbook phenomenon has caught up to it in the US. ...READ»

Puzzle Piece: The Laptop for Autistic Kids

Teaching a child with autism can be an exercise in frustration--for both teacher and child. But designers at the Boston office of the design firm Continuum have developed a teaching aid--still in the concept stage--that could go a ...READ»

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News you can use: Gen Y Sits on Top of Consumer Food Chain "They're savvy shoppers with money and influence" How Carly Lost Her Gender Groove (And Will She Get It Back?) "Another case of 'blondenfreude'?" Product Placement -- You ...READ»

All About Yves

Not long ago, Yves Béhar was a self-described "slumlord" to cover his rent. Now he's a superstar.READ»

$150 Laptops for the World's Poorest Children

The nonprofit organization One Laptop Per Child has designed a laptop that would cost only $150. It is meant explicitly for the world's poorest children, so they can take their learning in their own hands. Not only is the laptop ...READ»

CTL Launches Intel Classmate 2Go Tablet PC

Intel's first Classmate PC followed in the footsteps of Nick Negroponte's One Laptop Per Child XO PC by being a similarly cheap, robust portable PC intended for educational use. Last year Intel upgraded the specification to the ...READ»

When being "disruptive" is a good thing

This is a reposting of an article I wrote last week for NextBillion.net. NextBillion is a site that "brings together business leaders, social entrepreneurs, NGOs, policy makers, and academics who want to explore the ...READ»

Anthony Paoni

Clinical Professor of E-Commerce and Technology at the Managerial Economics and Decision Sciences Department, Kellogg Graduate School of ManagementREAD»

How DIYers Just Might Revive American Innovation

What a mess. I'm sitting on the floor of my apartment, surrounded by electronic parts, a cigar box, a soldering gun, and stray bits of wire. I'm trying to build my own steampunk-style clock — hacking a couple of volt meter dials to ...READ»

Sharper Image

The FBI is turning to a small Boston software firm for help in transforming surveillance video into high-resolution images -- and then using the pictures to help track terrorists. Call it the ultimate killer app.READ»

An Evolutionary Approach to Innovation

Can biology teach us anything about innovation? The essence of Darwinism is that progress is created by adaptation to changed conditions. What starts as a random mutation can also spread to become the norm through a process of natural ...READ»

Nickeled-and-Dimed to Death

A few years ago, experts thought a new pricing model would sweep the Internet in which users would gladly pay a few cents a page for the content that they liked. It was a costly misjudgment.READ»

India's $10 Laptop

On February 3, the Indian government will unveil a $10 educational laptop intended to bring computing to the masses, reports the Times of India. By comparison, a computer-shaped cake pan is $20 plus shipping in the U.S. Will the $10 ...READ»

Everything You've Always Wanted to Know About Innovation* But Were Afraid To Ask

This is way too long for a blog, but what the heck... “There is nothing more difficult to plan, more doubtful of success, more dangerous to manage than the creation of a new system”- Machiavelli (1469-1527) One of the ...READ»

Can Leadership Be Taught?

John Coné John Coné joined Dell in 1995 as vice president of education and president of Dell University. In that role, he has been responsible for the education of all Dell employees worldwide. Since joining Dell, Coné has ...READ»

A Laptop in Every Pot

Not even a seemingly noble cause can distract Intel from the developing-world marketing efforts we wrote about in "Intel's Amazon Ambitions" (February). After long dismissing the efforts of the One Laptop Per Child foundation to give ...READ»

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How Digital Is Your Company?

Forget about the e-hype. Going digital -- converting from atoms to bits -- gives your company a competitive edge, but only if you focus on the basics: money, talent, customers, and time.READ»

Intel Atom: Intel Makes Its Smallest Chip Ever

A completely reimagined computer chip from Intel drinks 10 times less power -- and puts the full Internet in the palm of your hand.READ»

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We've Seen the Future of Work and It Works, But Very Differently

How the visionaries in Grand Rapids are getting your papers to float, your desk to travel, and your office to multiply.READ»

Intel's Amazon Ambitions

How a Brazilian town best known for its Festival of the Ox became a marketing tool for the world's biggest semiconductor company.READ»

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The World's Most Innovative Companies

We canvassed the experts, analyzed the products, and crunched the numbers. From visionary upstarts to storied stalwarts, here are companies that dazzle with new ideas -- and prove beyond a doubt how business is a force for change. We call them the Fast 50.READ»

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