The “Give a Laptop, Get a Laptop” scheme on European Amazon outlets has made the XO model available at a £268 cost. Buy one and receive one - the other will be donated to a school child in a developing nation.

The One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) Foundation's "Give One, Get One" campaign was a big success last year. But it wasn't without glitches.

I first wrote about Microsoft's attempts to get Windows XP on the OLPC last December. You may recall that James Utzschneider, the general manager of Microsoft's emerging market unit, was just about the make at trip to the OLPC Foundation.

We have known for some time that Microsoft was working hard at getting Windows XP slimmed down and running on the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) XO-1. They've apparently succeeded as on Thursday Microsoft and the OLPC Foundation announced an agreement that will make Windows XP available on XO laptops.

A project aimed at providing inexpensive computers for millions of children in developing countries has hit a snag.

Lagos Analysis Corp. (LANCOR) files lawsuit against Nicholas Negroponte and OLPC (One Laptop Per Child) Association for patent infringement. Negroponte's OLPC is accused of unauthorized use of LANCOR's Multilingual Keyboard Technology invention in XO Laptop computers.

T-Mobile USA Partners with One Laptop per Child To Help Children (laptop.org) in the Developing World, Thus Giving Laptop.org The First Confirmed Order.

Children from developing countries of the world have got a life-time chance to be engaged in self-education with the help of a revolutionary idea of Nicholas Negroponte, founder of MIT Media Lab., who launches on Monday One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) project via Give 1, Get 1 scheme.