[WSIS CS-Plenary] Now, the $75 laptop

[Rui Correia]

Dear Tapani

Yes, for some reason it wn't open now - I'll copy-paste below from an
earlier page that I can reopen from my cache.

But just to avoid confusion, I think you are mixing up my link with comments
by another member about Negropente. Also, I said "now, the $75 laptop" - so
if it is based on that that you are saying "we certainly don't "now have" a
$75 laptop", I did not say we do.

Regards,

Rui
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text from link:
 * Cheap laptop tech goes commercial *
* BY REUTERS*
[ Boston | Reuters News Service, 11 January 2008 ] - The scientist who
designed a notebook computer for poor children that is being produced and
sold by a non-profit foundation has set up a company to commercialise the
technology with a goal of producing a $75 laptop computer.

Mary Lou Jepsen, who left her post as chief technology officer of the One
Laptop Per Child Foundation at the end of last year, said on the company's
Web site that she has founded the company, called Pixel Qi, and described it
as "a spin-out" from the non-profit group.

 Jepsen invented a low-cost, low-power sunreadable screen while at the
foundation from 2005 to 2007. She also co-invented its power management
system.

Pixel Qi will commercialise the screen technology, offering it to makers of
notebook computers, digital cameras, cellphones and other mobile devices,
she said on her Web site.

The high-resolution display that she invented lets users switch from colour
to black-and-white when it is in direct sun.

The company will work closely with the foundation, providing the products it
develops to the non-profit group at cost, according to the Pixel Qi Web
site.

Prior to joining the OLPC Foundation, she was the chief technology officer
of the display division of Intel.

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On 11/01/2008, Tapani Tarvainen <tapani.tarvainen at effi.org> wrote:
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> On Fri, Jan 11, 2008 at 06:15:19PM +0200, Rui Correia (
> correia.rui at gmail.com) wrote:
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> > After the $100 computer/ laptop (which ended up costing a bit more) now
> we
> > have the $75 laptop.
> >
> >
> http://www.itweb.co.za/sections/computing/2008/0801111001.asp?S=Reuters&A=REU&O=ql
>
> That link only shows the title here at the moment,
> "Cheap laptop tech goes commercial",
> and that is a bit misleading, I think:
> Negroponte's project is not going commercial,
> just one of it's developers, Mary Lou Jepsen,
> has left off to found her own company.
>
> Anyway, we certainly don't "now have" a $75 laptop
> any more than we "had" $100 laptop three years ago:
> it's just marketing hype at this point.
> Only time will tell what will come of it.
>
> But, here're a few more links for those interested in this:
>
> http://www.reuters.com/article/technologyNews/idUSN1019897920080110
> (what the above probably was referring to)
>
> http://www.joeinc.tv/
> (Epsen's own original announcement of the new company)
>
> http://www.pixelqi.com/
> (the new company's own website)
>
> http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20080107182525297
> (long interview of Jepsen)
>
> http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,141230-c,notebooks/article.html
> http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/01/10/1827223
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