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OLPC's XO As a Wireless Hacking Tool

twistedmoney99 writes "InformIT.com has a whimsical yet intriguing look at the OLPC in an article series titled "One Leet Pwning Child — Give one, Get Owned". Part one details how to upgrade the core system with some extras, but part two is where the fun begins as the author converts the OLPC into a lean green hacking machine to enable wireless sniffing, setup the OLPC for vulnerability assessments, and stage the device for a little autopwning with Metasploit."

Grassroots OLPC Jam scheduled for this weekend

This weekend, the One Laptop per Child movement in New York City is holding an OLPC "Grassroots Jam" at the Manhattan Neighborhood Network. The Jam is a gathering of volunteer educators, content creators, artists, writers, programmers, engineers, and others who want to help create a central server for NYC schools that already make use of OLPC laptops.

OLPC, Microsoft to make Windows, Linux available on XO

BEIJING, May 16 (Xinhuanet) -- The One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) Project and Microsoft plan to make both Windows and Linux available on a version of the project's XO laptop, the companies said Thursday.

OLPC, Microsoft to make Windows, Linux available on XO

BEIJING, May 16 (Xinhuanet) -- The One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) Project and Microsoft plan to make both Windows and Linux available on a version of the project's XO laptop, the companies said Thursday.

Why OLPC Struggles Against Educators, Big Business

afabbro writes "The current issue of BusinessWeek has an expansive article of the history of OLPC and why it has, to date, been a flop. Among the reasons: no preparation for the educational systems expected to use it, uncertain pedagogical theories, poor business management, competition from Microsoft/Intel, and no input from education professionals in designing the software. As BusinessWeek quotes one educational expert, 'The hackers took over,' and the applications are too complex for children to use. To date, 370,000 laptops have been shipped — a far cry from the original 150 million planned to be shipped by end of 2008."

Installing Ubuntu On an OLPC XO

Matt Lincoln Russell writes "Installing Ubuntu Netbook Remix on the OLPC XO is not for the faint of heart, but Drew Beckett has got the process down. This setup is pretty slow on the XO, but the good news is that Netbook Remix is a work in progress, and can be expected to get better."

Microsoft Joins Linux on OLPC

Microsoft on Thursday struck a deal to make its Windows operating system available on OLPC’s low-cost XO laptops, intended to bring technology to the world’s poor.

Gadget Lab Podcast #30: OLPC 2.0, iPhone 2.0, and Roku

In this week's Wired Gadget Lab Podcast, Dylan Tweney, Daniel Dumas, and Jose Fermoso talk about the next generation of the OLPC ultra portable laptop, and why its dual-display touchscreen book could be an awesome educational tool. It's too bad it won't come out until 2010 and that its price point will probably be twice as much as promised.

Windows Will Accompany Linux on OLPC Laptops

After a year long dispute, Microsoft and the computing and education project One Laptop Per Child have reached an official agreement to produce versions of the foundation’s XO Laptop that run Windows XP. The parties expect to deliver a dual-boot XO system in August or September that will have both the traditional Linux-based Sugar operating system of the XO and a low-cost student version of Windows XP, according to Kyle Austin, an OLPC representative.

Java development becomes reality TV sport

OLPC Sugar software goes independent Yahoo-Microsoft pact could lead to merger Computer downtime could solve world hunger CBS buys CNET for US$1.8 billion Sun unveils quad-core Opteron servers Woman charged over MySpace suicide IT managers bemoan broken dreams Asus to offer Linux on all motherboards OLPC to ship with Windows XP MIT engineers claim fuel cell breakthrough OpenSuse joins Google Summer of Code Yahoo board fights back at Icahn Developers favour XP over Vista Strong prospects in software to spy on bank staff

OLPC's Bitfrost: Privacy disaster, or security haven?

Faced with a young, tech-inexperienced user base, the One Laptop Per Child foundation set out to build an easy to use security system, Bitfrost — but did it create a privacy threat that tracks users' identity instead?

OLPC's Bitfrost: Privacy disaster, or security haven?

Faced with a young, tech-inexperienced user base, the One Laptop Per Child foundation set out to build an easy to use security system, Bitfrost — but did it create a privacy threat that tracks users' identity instead?

OLPC to get better-than-iPhone multi-touch

The One Laptop Per Child project's XO2 notebook will use an improved form of multi-touch display when it ships, says Mary Lou Jepsen of the display's creator company, Pixel Qi, in a new interview with Laptop. Instead of using an iPhone-like technique that sandwiches the touch-sensitive layer in between the glass and an LCD, the XO2 will use an in-cell touchscreen where the receptors are woven into the display itself. The process both saves money by reducing the production to a single part and also produces a brighter screen without the need for a surface layer.

Extreme Makeover Napster, AOL and OLPC Edition

Napster gave itself a new outlook on life, making the transition from a subscription service to a seller of DRM-free tunes in the MP3 format ... AOL is converting itself to more of a social network by incorporating newly bought Bebo with features it already had, such as AIM ... the One Laptop Per Child initiative announced a redesigned look, with two touchscreens and no keyboard.

Extreme Makeover Napster, AOL and OLPC Edition

Napster gave itself a new outlook on life, making the transition from a subscription service to a seller of DRM-free tunes in the MP3 format ... AOL is converting itself to more of a social network by incorporating newly bought Bebo with features it already had, such as AIM ... the One Laptop Per Child initiative announced a redesigned look, with two touchscreens and no keyboard.

Mesh standard gets boost from OLPC, open source

The world's media explored every aspect of New Zealand's giant squid defrosting, and some of these angles are quite enlightening or amusing. First up, Salon draws a vital distinction between a giant squid and a collosal squid. Then there was...

Windows coming on dual-boot OLPC

The One Laptop Per Child Project and Microsoft plan to make both Windows and Linux available on a version of the project's XO laptop, the companies said Thursday.

WEEKLY RECAPExtreme Makeover Napster, AOL and OLPC Edition

Napster gave itself a new outlook on life, making the transition from a subscription service to a seller of DRM-free tunes in the MP3 format ... AOL is converting itself to more of a social network by incorporating newly bought Bebo with features it already had, such as AIM ... the One Laptop Per Child initiative announced a redesigned look, with two touchscreens and no keyboard.

WEEKLY RECAPExtreme Makeover Napster, AOL and OLPC Edition

Napster gave itself a new outlook on life, making the transition from a subscription service to a seller of DRM-free tunes in the MP3 format ... AOL is converting itself to more of a social network by incorporating newly bought Bebo with features it already had, such as AIM ... the One Laptop Per Child initiative announced a redesigned look, with two touchscreens and no keyboard.

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