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infoDev has assembled some links to full-text news items from a variety of sources about initiatives, projects and products related to low-cost ICT devices (excluding mobile phones) for the developing world. The list is provided as a general reference for informational purposes; no endorsement of any particular publication or author, or the accuracy of any specific news item or opinion, is implied.  (Archives: 2007 | 2006 | 2005 | 2004 | 2003-2000)

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2006:

Low-Cost Laptop Could Transform Learning
31 December 2006 (source: Washington Post)

Linux sets its sights on the PDA market
22 December 2006 (source:LinuxDevices.com)

Solid-State PCs: Computing's Next Horizon
21 December 2006 (source: TechNewsWorld)

$100 laptop marches on the developing world
21 December 2006 (source: VNUnet.com)

Ready To Demo: A $150 Laptop With A 'Complete Computing Experience'
19 December 2006 (source: InformationWeek)

Encore set to bag Brazilian laptop order
19 December 2006 (source: India Times) 

AMD's 50/15, HP's Hurd Hit, Apple's 'Catastrophic' Decline
18 December 2006 (source: TechNewsWorld)

AMD Bridges Digital Divide
15 December 2006 (source: Red Herring)

AMD shows off PC designs from developing economies
14 Dec 2006 (source: VNUnet.com)

AMD Awards Prizes For Rural Computing Efforts
13 December 2006 (source: PC Magazine)

Real Cost of OLPC XO is nearly $1000 Says Report
11 December 2006 (source: DailyTech)

Low-cost Internet for the masses
11 December 2006 (source: myADSL.co.za)

Encore's Mobilis to compete with OLPC XO, Classmate PC in Brazil
8 December 2006 (source: Endgadget)

Assessing the true cost of One Laptop Per Child
8 December 2006 (source: NewsForge)

Intel and OLPC compete for edu-laptop market in Brazil
6 December 2006 (source: Ars Technica)

Intel's Classmate PC to go head to head with OLPC in Brazil
6 December 2006 (source: Endgadget)

Q&A: Nicholas Negroponte, founder, One Laptop Per Child
5 December 2006 (source: Silicon.com)

Microsoft looking to run Windows on OLPC
5 December 2006 (source: VNU Net)

$150 laptops to get rival in Brazil
5 December 2006 (source Business Week)

$100 laptops: Rich countries to buy for poor
5 December 2006 (source: Silicon.com)

Uganda: Wireless Technology Boosts Fort Portal
4 December 2006 (source: AllAfrica.com)

Developing economies need sexy phones: Motorola
4 December 2006 (source: Silicon.com)

Battle for the cheap education computer hots up
3 December 2006 (source: Balancing Act - Africa)

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For $150, Third-World Laptop Stirs a Big Debate
30 November 2006 (source: NY Times)

Pakistani students might be using $100 laptop next year
30 November 2006 (source: Pak Tribune)

Quanta planning $200 OLPC for developed nations
28 March 2007 (source: Engadget)

$100 laptop set for launch
28 November 2006 (source: BBC)

Thailand Government Cancels OLPC Participation
28 November 2006 (source: Slashdot)

Education Ministry axes 3 schemes: Ex-govt's pet projects left out of budget plan
28 November 2006 (source: Bangkok Post)

Brazilian kids get first $100 laptops
27 November 2006 (source: Silicon.com)

Brazilian president receives first version of US$100 (€76) laptop
24 November 2006 (source: International Herald Tribune)

Ndiyo: Sharing PCs to bridge the digital divide
23 November 2006 (source: ZDNet UK)

One-hundred dollar laptop on show
22 November 2006 (source: Bangkok Post)

First OLPC laptops face 'rigorous testing'
22 November 2006 (Source: IT Week UK)

UN: Laptop Initiative Makes Slow Progress
20 November 2006 (source: Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty)

Third world children to eventually get one laptop each
20 November 2006 (source: IT Wire)

AMD Says Press Report on 50x15 Inaccurate
20 November 2006 (source: NextBillion.net)

A $100 laptop prototype for $150
17 November 2006 (source: C|Net)

IDB and OLPC formalize agreement to foster applications of information and communication technology to education in Latin America and the Caribbean
15 November 2006 (source: Inter-american Development Bank)

The woeful tale of the $100 laptop
15 November 2006 (source: MarketWatch)

Part III: Philanthropy's New Prototype
15 November 2006 (source: MIT Technology Review)

Digital Development: How the $100 Laptop Could Change Education
14 November 2006 (source: US Department of State)

AMD ditches the PIC
14 November 2006 (source: IT Pro UK)

Bringing Wi-Fi To Remote Areas Of Africa
14 November 2006 (source: abc7news.com)

AMD cans low-cost PC project
14 November 2006 (source: CNet)

Another Low Cost PC Project Nixed
14 November 2006 (source: TechTree.com)

AMD Ditches The PIC
13 November 2006 (source: PC Magazine)

Technology to Bind an African Village
13 November 2006 (source: NY Times)

Part II: Philanthropy's New Prototype
13 November 2006 (source: MIT Technology Review)

OLPC nears low-cost Linux laptop production
13 November 2006 (source: DesktopLinux.com)

Philanthropy's New Prototype
13 November 2006 (source: MIT Technology Review)

AMD Stops Manufacturing of Personal Internet Communicator
13 November 2006 (source: X-bit Labs)

AMD pulls plug on Personal Internet Communicator
12 November 2006 (source: ArsTechnica)

Intel joins fight for low-end PC market
11 November 2006 (source: Shanghai Daily)

Filipino develops $100 budget PC
7 November 2006 (source: INQ7.net)

Intel launches Classmate PC in Nigeria
3 November 2006 (source: TradeArabia)

Nicholas Negroponte and the $100 Laptop
3 November 2006 (source: PodTech.net)

Tech firms woo 'next billion users'
3 November 2006 (source: China Daily)

$15 mobiles for sale by 2008, predicts Motorola chief
2 November 2006 (source: Silicon.com)

First $100 Laptops Due This Year
2 November 2006 (source: PC World)

Intel chairman Craig Barrett in India
2 November 2006 (source: Business Week)

Intel Will Spend US$1 Billion Exploring Rural Market
1 November 2006 (source: ChinaTechNews)

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Quanta confirms test runs for OLPC notebook, mass production slated for 2Q07
31 October 2006 (source: DigiTimes)

All teachers to get computers with Internet connectivity
29 October 2006 (source: Hindustan Times)

This PC wants to save the world
24 October 2006 (source: CNN/Fortune)

Upward Mobility in a Laptop
24 October 2006 (source: LA Times)

$100 laptops to roll off production lines in Q2 2007
24 October 2006 (PCWorld Canada)

Soon the under $100 computer
22 October 2006 (source: China IT News)

Effort aims to wire Uganda camps
21 October 2006 (source: South Bend Tribune)

Laptop Licensing
20 October 2006 (source: AsiaMedia)

Made-in-China computers break price barriers to help poor kids
19 October 2006 (source: ChinaKnowledge.com)

The Laptop Revolution Has No Clothes
18 October 2006 (source: Education Week)

Quanta reportedly starts test production of US$100 notebook
18 October 2006 (source: Digitimes)

Intel shows off new low-cost laptops
17 October 2006 (source: IT World)

Sinomanic Godson-based student laptop
14 October 2006 (source: Engadget)

Rwanda: Rwanda to Benefit From Qaddafi's Computer Project
13 October 2006 (source: AllAfrica)

Libya Purchases 1.2 mil Wind-up Laptops
12 October 2006 (source: Slashdot)

How Do You Secure 100 Million Laptops?
12 October 2006 (source: eWeek)

Libyan pupils 'to have laptops'
11 October 2006 (source: BBC)

OLPC under fire for proprietary components
11 October 2006 (source: Endgadget)

Guoxin Technology To Release Dragon Chip Laptops
11 October 2006 (source: Pacific Epoch)

Proprietary Parts in OLPC Project Draw Criticism
10 October 2006 (source: Slashdot)

Making sense of the One Laptop Per Child proprietary software row
9 October 2006 (source: The Jem Report)

$100 Laptop May Be at Security Forefront
7 October 2006 (source: Sydney Morning Herald)

RPLinux: China's Answer to the $100 PC
2 October 2006 (source: OSWeekly.com)

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Intel Shows Off Classmate PC Concept
30 September 2006 (source: xbitlabs.com)

Intel reveals specifications for budget-priced Classmate PC
29 September 2006 (source: Ars Technica)

Intel Classmate PC
28 September 2006 (source: TrustedReviews.com)

South Asia mulls cost of telecentres
28 September 2006 (source: South Asian Media)

Intel World Ahead Programme
27 September 2006 (source: TrustedReviews.com)

In search of local content, PC manufacturer set to knock prices
27 September 2006 (source: Vanguard, Nigeria)

Intel sub-US$400 notebooks for emerging markets to ship in 1Q 2007
27 September 2006 (source: DigiTimes)

Nigeria: Intel Donates 3,000 PCs to Nigerian Schools
27 September 2006 (source: AllAfrica)

OLPC offered free satellite connections
26 September 2006 (source: iTnews)

$10 laptops for children?
23 September 2006 (source: Times of India)

One-to-one computing for under $100?
22 September 2006 (source: eSchool News)

A Laptop at Every Desk
20 September 2006 (source: Business Week)

Negroponte announces OLPC for eBay, shows off pull-string
20 September 2006 (source: Endgadget)

Geekcorps Desert PC: Ruggedness Redefined!
19 September 2006 (source: Gizmo Watch)

Latest update on Negroponte’s $100 laptop
19 September 2006 (source: ZDnet)

An Interview with Inveneo
18 September 2006 (source: World Changing)

OLPC screen is clever, but very odd
13 September 2006 (source: The Inquirer)

China readies low-cost PC based on its Godson CPU
5 September 2006 (source: EE Times)

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Quanta sets US$100-laptop shipment goal of 10 million units
31 August 2006 (source: DigiTimes.com)

Solar power may soon bring the Web to remote areas
31 August 2006 (source: CS Monitor)

Pedal Power: Look Ma No Wires
30 August 2006 (source: WiFi Planet)

OLPC laptops to launch as '2B1'
28 August 2006 (source: VNUnet.com)

Brazil nears million Linux laptop order
28 August 2006 (source: DesktopLinux.com)

Lenovo Shifts Focus to Small City Markets
28 August 2006
(source: c114, China Communication Network)

MIT laptop gets a new name just in time for field tests
25 August 2006 (source: Ars Technica)

OLPC confirms field tests, other deets
22 August (souce: DesktopLinux.com)

$100 laptop trials begin within weeks
22 August 2006 (source: ZDNet UK)

AMD's PC in a pinch
21 August 2006 (source: GCN)

Knocking Down the Barriers to the $100 Laptop
21 August 2006 (source: eWeek)

$100 laptops to debut with Thai kids
17 August 2006 (source: CNN)

Fourier’s gold mine
17 August 2006 (source: Globes)

A Crusade to Connect Children
16 August 2006 (source: Business Week)

The 'Gods must be crazy' solution
16 August 2006 (source: VIA PC-1)

How green is my machine? The $100 laptop
14 August 2006 (source: Rabble.ca)

Laptops Better Than Books for Thai Students?
14 August 2006 (source: OLPCnews.com)

Thai premier: 'One Laptop per Child' project to begin in October
13 August 2006 (source: The Star, Malaysia)

A revolution in a laptop
13 August 2006 (source: Al-Jazeera.net)

A Laptop in Every Hut?
11 August 2006 (source: TechNewsWorld)

Bikes Power Computers, Telephones in Developing World
9 August 2006 (source: Voice of America)

Low-Tech OLPC Laptop Still a Marvel
8 August 2006 (source: Chicago Tribune)

Will they let CANi work?
5 August 2006 (source: Vanguard, Nigeria

AMD's 50X15 Targets Africa
4 August 2006 (source: Electronic News)

Wikipedia content to appear on 'One Laptop'
4 August 2006 (source: Computerworld)

Closing the digital divide with solar Wi-Fi
2 August 2006 (source: C|Net)

Are the $100 laptop's good intentions good enough?
1 August 2006 (source: ZDNet UK)

One Laptop Per Child Gets 4 Million Laptop Order
1 August 2006 (source: Slashdot)

One Laptop Per Child gaining ground
1 August 2006 (source: The Register)

$100 Laptop Has Four Million Orders, Microsoft Counters
1 August 2006 (source: MIT Technology Review)

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AMD, Telmex Promote Low-Cost Web Access In Mexico
31 July 2006 (source: InformationWeek)

PCs for the poor: as good as their hype?
31 July 2006 (source: SciDevNet)

Microsoft shows off mobile-PC prototype
31 July 2006 (source: Silicon.com)

Four countries commit to buying 4 million Linux-powered OLPC laptops
31 July 2006 (source: DesktopLinux.com)

Why India said no to the $100 laptop
27 July 2006 (source: ZDNet UK)

Nigeria buys into US$100 laptop concept
25 July 2006 (source: LinuxWorld)

Great Wall PC to produce $100 laptop
24 July 2006 (source: People's Daily Online)

Powering the $100 Laptop: An efficient handheld generator could help bring computing to the world's poor.
24 July 2006 (source: MIT Technology Review)

Towards one laptop per child
24 July 2006 (source: Cebu Sun Star)

HRD Ministry rejects plan panel`s idea of laptop per child
24 July 2006 (source: ZeeNews.com)

OLPC will be powered by pulling a string
24 July 2006 (source: Endgadget)

Simputers to make challan process simpler
20 July 2006 (source: India Times)

Nepad to Establish 500,000 E-Schools in Africa
20 July 2006 (source: This Day, Lagos)

Intel targets small towns
17 July 2006 (source: CIOL)

MAFCOCS, Intel join hands to deploy 10,000 community PCs
16 July 2006 (source: DQ Channels)

Delhi Traffic Police to acquire Simputers
16 July 2006 (source: DQ Channels)

FG partners Microsoft, Intel to launch CANI
12 July 2006 (source: Nigerian Tribune)

Nigeria: FG Orders 1m Laptops for Children At N13bn
12 July 2006 (source: AllAfrica)

Intel brings World Ahead Program to Turkey
11 July 2006 (source: Strategiy)

HRD rubbishes MIT's laptop scheme for kids
3 July 2006 (source: Times of India)

Working on the $100 Laptop
1 July 2006 (source: Today's Engineer Online, IEEE-USA)

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One Cheap Desktop for All
29 June 2006 (source: Wired)

Intel Aims to Empower State Coop Credit Societies
27 June 2006 (source: ChannelTimes)

ePLDT rolls out more mobile Internet cafés
26 June 2006 (source: Manila Bulletin)

Computing pioneer Felsenstein eyes PCs for the poor
26 June 2006 (source: ZDNet)

Is US$100 laptop project flawed?
21 June 2006 (source: ZDNet UK)

Intel's bridge for the digital divide
21 June 2006 (source: CNet)

For Brazil's Poor, a Digital Deliverance?
21 June 2006 (source: BusinessWeek)

The $100 Laptop Ideal
20 June 2006 (source: PC Week)

One Laptop Per Child
19 June 2006 (source: bit-tech.net)

IT finds a heart
19 June 2006 (source: ComputerPartner)

If you won't contribute to OLPC, step aside
18 June 2006 (source: Network World)

Laptops for the Majority
16 June 2006 (source: Inter-American Development Bank)

PCs for Third World, by design
16 June 2006 (source: EE Times Asia)

VIA's pc-1 platform overview
16 June 2006 (source: DailyTech)

Low-cost PCs
15 June 2006 (source: C|Net)

In Search Of A PC For The People
12 June 2006 (source: Business Week)

How altruism could reshape IT
12 Jun 2006 (source: IT Week)

First video of a working "One Laptop Per Child" laptop
2 June 2006 (source: Silicon Valley Sleuth)

The Third World Goes High-Tech: The Dirt Road to the Information Superhighway
1 June 2006 (source: Der Spiegel)

US$100 laptop gets a price increase
1 June 2006 (source: ArsTechnica)

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Is $100 too much to pay for a laptop?
31 May 2006 (source: IT Business Canada)

Fuel cells in laptops edge closer
31 May 2006 (source: BBC)

Tech entrepreneurs see profit in connecting next billion Internet users
30 May 2006 (source: USA Today)

Tech Giants, Nonprofits Make Ambitious Push With Cheap PCs
29 May 2006 (source: Information Week)

First pictures of the $100 laptop
24 May 2006 (source: The Register)

First Photos of MIT $100 Laptop
24 May 2006 (Source: Slashdot)

MIT's US$100 laptop prototype completed
24 May 2006 (source: ArsTechnica)

AMD lowers PIC barriers with "pay-as-you-go"
23 May 2006 (source: WindowsForDevices.com)

MS unveils PC rental plan
22 May 2006 (source: Reg Hardware)

$100 laptop may not suit South Africa
22 May 2006 (source: Mail & Guardian)

$100 laptops? ... Not yet
22 May 2006 (source: Network World)

Microsoft pitches pay-as-you-go PCs
21 May 2006 (source: ZDNet)

MIT's $100 laptop sputters along
18 May 2006 (source: TMCnet)

Nigerians partner on rugged Solo computer
16 May 2006 (source: News Forge)

Perspective: The $100 box? It's already here
12 May 2006 (source: C|Net)

AMD, Intel and MIT chastised for cheap PC fight
6 May 2006 (source: Reg Hardware)

Intel unveils their own third world laptop
5 May 2006 (source: Mobile Magazine)

Intel Shows Education Laptop
4 May 2006 (source: Red Herring)

Ballmer impressed by Intel's new laptop for the poor
3 May 2006 (source: Reg Hardware)

Intel builds $400 laptop for school desks worldwide
3 May 2006 (source: ZDnet)

Device Profile: AMD Personal Internet Communicator (PIC)
2 May 2006 (source: WindowsForDevices.com)

Intel presses forward with inexpensive computing initiative
2 May 2006 (source: ArsTechnica)

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Chinese Company Produces $150 Linux PC
27 April 2006 (source: Slashdot)

Chinese $150 Linux mini-PC races OLPC to market
21 April 2006 (source: Linux Devices)

OLPC $100 laptop project mulls Windows CE
12 April 2006 (source: WindowsForDevices.com)

'Our $100 laptops will run on human power'
7 April 2006 (source: Rediff)

Negroponte defends the hundred dollar laptop
5 April 2006 (source: The Register)

Negroponte Applauds Linux, Knocks Bill Gates
5 April 2006 (source: Information Week)

Wipro Infotech launches rural PC
5 April 2006 (source: India Daily)

The Lessons of the $100 Laptop
5 April 2006 (source: PC Magazine)

One Laptop Per Child aims at $50 price tag
5 Apr 2006 (source: IT Week)

Head of US$100 laptop project takes on his critics
5 April 2006 (Source: ArsTechnica)

Negroponte: Slimmer Linux needed for $100 laptop
4 April 2006 (source: C|Net)

Negroponte's $100 Notebook
4 April 2006 (source: Internet News)

MIT's Low-Cost Laptop Plan Moves Forward: The dream is becoming a reality in Argentina
1 April 2006 (source: OhmyNews)

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Intel unveils 'juggernaut' computer for rural India
31 March 2006 (source: The Register)

Intel Kicks Off Low-Cost PC Effort
31 March 2006 (source: PC World)

Intel launches Community PC platform
31 March 2006 (source: ZDnet)

Waking up to a laptop revolution
28 March 2006 (source: Financial Times)

Ultra-low cost mobiles to steal thunder of the ‘$100 laptop’
27 March 2006 (source: The Register)

Cheap, Cheaper, Cheapest
26 March 2006 (source: Business Today)

The Municator- A $146 Linux Based Computer
23 March 2006 (source: DLmag)

Getting the world's poor logged on
22 March 2006 (source: Times Online)

The Impact of Low-cost Handsets
20 March 2006 (source: NextBillion)

Gates mocks Negroponte's $100 laptop
16 March 2006 (source: The Register)

China to produce low-cost computers of its own
15 March 2006 (source: People's Daily Online)

Rural laptop to cost $187, with Linux
15 March 2006 (source: International Herald Tribune)

Intel to hop on third-world-PC bandwagon
14 March 2006 (source: The Register)

Novatium's $100 thin client PC
13 March 2006 (source: ZDNet)

Fuel cells to change laptop use
10 March 2006 (source: BBC)

Rounding up the herd of $100 laptops
6 March 2006 (source: NextBillion)

Indian start-up shows off its alternative to high-price PCs
3 March 2006 (source: C|Net)

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PCs for the poor: Which design will win?
15 February 2006 (source: C|Net)

Perspective: Will the $100 PC fly?
10 February 2006 (source: C|Net)

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Microsoft's alternative to US$100 laptop: the cell phone
30 January 2006 (source: ArsTechnica)

Gates proposes cellphones as alternative to OLPC
30 January 2006 (source: Endgadget)

Microsoft Would Put Poor Online by Cellphone
30 January 2006 (source: NY Times)

U.N. Lends Backing to the $100 Laptop
26 January 2006 (source: Slashdot)

Via unfurls computer designs for developing world
23 January 2006 (source: C|Net)