Walter Bender

OLPC tries to bridge gap with developer community

computerworld.com     Jul 3, 2008   1 related          

There's a big ideological gap between developers, who espouse the XO laptop as a watershed open-source project, and One Laptop Per Child, which wants to sell more cheap PCs, one observer says, and now OLPC is trying to mend...                

Intel’s Classmate PC getting a little Sugar?

gadgetell.com     Jun 23, 2008   1 related          

Section: Computers, Mobile Computers, Laptops It looks like the Sugar user interface, which known as the current operating system that powers the OLPC XO Laptop could soon be heading over to the Classmate PC from Intel. During...                

Top ten: Firefox 3.0, Yahoo leavings, 'Net and politics

infoworld.com     Jun 20, 2008   1,610 related          

Mozilla servers were overwhelmed Tuesday after the company encouraged Firefox fans to download version 3.0 and help set a world record for the number of software downloads in a 24-hour period. Once problems were fixed, Firefox...                

Intel's Classmate PC adds some Sugar

news.com     Jun 20, 2008   20 related          

The inventor of the Sugar user interface used in the One Laptop Per Child's XO says his company is developing a version for Intel's own low-cost laptop. Walter Bender said in an interview Thursday with PC World that "a...                

OLPC: Dos artículos para una mala noticia

luisramirez.cl     Jun 20, 2008   54 related          

Esta semana he escrito dos artículos sobre el computador XO de la fundación OLPC, que para mucha gente sigue siendo -erróneamente- un sinónimo de nuestra campaña ciudadana “un computador por niño”(ucpn). (actualizado al final)...                

OLPC Spin-off Developing UI for Intel's Classmate PC

pcworld.com     Jun 18, 2008   9 related          

Wednesday, June 18, 2008 1:30 PM PDT Intel could give its Classmate PC a user interface similar to One Laptop Per Child's XO laptop, with the chip maker preparing a version of the Sugar UI found on OLPC's laptops for its...                

Can TamTam Teach the World to Play?

wsj.com     Jun 11, 2008   2 related          

When OLPC's XO laptop starts up, its Linux-based user interface plays a four-note ditty, composed by the band U2, that stands for the letters O, L, P, and C – an indication of how important music is to the little green...                

IN FOCUS: One Laptop Meets Big Business (at BusinessWeek)

yahoo.com     Jun 9, 2008   3 related          

The big idea of giving PCs to poor children has been challenged by educators and business. Here, follow the misadventures of One Laptop per Child Peruvian student Justo Miguel Común is in the fifth grade. Most of these children...                

One Laptop MeetsBig Business

businessweek.com     Jun 6, 2008   1 related          

The big idea of giving PCs to poor children has been challenged by educators and business. Here, follow the misadventures of One Laptop per Child Peruvian student Justo Miguel Común is in the fifth grade. Most of these children...                

David Weinberger: [berkman] Berkman lunch: Walter Bender, Sugar Labs

harvard.edu     Jun 3, 2008   1 related          

Walter Bender, who was president of the One Laptop Per Child project, is now the founder of Sugar Labs. [Live blogging. Getting it wrong. Missing stuff. That's just the way it is. Also, this will be much choppier than the talk...                

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