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By now, just about everyone involved with technology knows about ultra-portable computers. Spawned by the development of the XO Laptop, this segment of the computer industry has grown by leaps and bounds over the past year, fueled in part by the “one to one” laptop programs initiated in schools and school districts.

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It began with the XO Laptop, that small, rugged, inexpensive laptop computer developed by Nicholas Negroponte and a team from MIT. Intended for students in Third World countries, the original concept was to build a computer that was about 1/2 to 2/3′s the size of a regular laptop, virtually indestructible, used a type of Linux [...]

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A couple of years ago digital guru Nicholas Negroponte and a group of people based at MIT began working on the concept of the “$100.00 Laptop” The plan was to build the computer then distribute them to 3rd world countries in an effort to bridge the technology gap between rich and poor. This initiative [...]