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• One Laptop Per Child Australia scores $11.7m in federal budget

  One Laptop Per Child Australia received a one-off boost in the federal budget, scoring $11.7 million of funding. In addition, budget measures mean that donations to OLPC Australia will be tax deductible from 1 July.

• One Laptop Per Child Australia set to launch 'One Education' program

  One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) Australia is set to launch a new initiative centred on the Linux-based XO laptops the nonprofit organisation distributes.

• 'One Laptop Per Child' push growing

  A global push to give every child a laptop is gathering momentum in Australia despite the absence of government funding.

• Negroponte offers OLPC technology for $35 tablet

  The nonprofit organization One Laptop Per Child wants to join forces to help develop the Indian government's planned US$35 tablet.

• In pictures: One Laptop Per Child delivers laptops remote Australia

  Non-profit organisation, One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) Australia, continues to roll out budget laptops to primary school children in the Northern Territory with 200 devices being delivered to the remote town of Yirrkala.

• One Laptop Per Child delivers 200 laptops to Territory kids in Yirrkala

  Non-profit organisation, One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) Australia, continues to roll out budget laptops to primary school children in the Northern Territory with 200 devices being delivered to the remote town of Yirrkala.

• OLPC plans super-thin, super-cheap tablet

  The nonprofit group One Laptop Per Child wants to produce a touchscreen tablet computer by 2012 that will cost less than US$100. OLPC released its device roadmap this week, which includes two upgrades to the original XO computer, as well as lofty plans for a new 8.5in by 11in tablet device called the XO-3.

• OLPC unveils 'unbreakable' netbook

  The One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) group has unveiled a new netbook made from one sheet of plastic, which it claims is "unbreakable".

• Skeptics question OLPC's focus with $75 tablet

  Skeptics are criticizing the nonprofit One Laptop Per Child for losing its educational focus by designing unrealistic hardware at a price point that cannot be achieved.

• Quanta says first cloud computing devices due out next year

  Quanta Computer, the world's largest contract notebook computer manufacturer, will put out its first cloud computing products next year as it seeks growth in new markets, the company's chairman said Monday.

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  OLPC boosts outback education with laptop deployment

  One Laptop per Child (OLPC) Australia, has launched the first deployments of laptops to primary school children in the Northern Territory and Western Australia.

• India, Sierra Leone place OLPC orders

  India has ordered 250,000 laptops from the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) organization, while a human rights organization will supply 5,000 OLPC machines to Sierra Leone.

• OLPC drops AMD chips for Via

  One Laptop Per Child on Friday refreshed its XO-1 laptop hardware, dumping chips from Advanced Micro Devices in favor of processors from Via Technologies.

• OLPC to focus on large-scale deployments of XO laptops

  Nonprofit organization One Laptop Per Child is shying away from small deployments of XO laptops to focus on large-scale deployments as it restructures to cope with the recession.

• Removal of OLPC donation program rattles observers

  One Laptop Per Child's removal of a program that enables small-scale XO laptop deployments has rattled observers, who are concerned that the nonprofit is changing its focus to large-scale deployments.