A frail partnership between Intel and the One Laptop Per Child educational computing group was undone last month in part by an Intel saleswoman: She tried to persuade a Peruvian official to drop the country’s commitment to buy a quarter-million of the organization’s laptops in favor of Intel PCs.Intel and the group had a rocky relationship from the start in their short-lived effort to get inexpensive laptops into the hands of the world’s poorest children.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/05/technology/05laptop.htmlOne laptop project loses Intel as partner
Intel has pulled out of a project to put cheap laptops in the hands of children in the developing world.Citing “philosophical” differences, Intel has withdrawn its funding and technical help from the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) project.OLPC aimed to boost learning in poorer nations via a custom-built laptop intended to cost no more than $100.Intel’s withdrawal is a blow to OLPC which has found few nations willing to buy large numbers of laptops.
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Intel Quits Effort to Get Computers to Children
A frail partnership between Intel and the One Laptop Per Child educational computing group was undone last month in part by an Intel saleswoman: She tried to persuade a Peruvian official to drop the country’s commitment to buy a quarter-million of the organization’s laptops in favor of Intel PCs.