Dear Tapani<br>
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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.<br>
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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.<br>
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Regards,<br>
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Rui<br>
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Cheap laptop tech goes commercial
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Boston | Reuters News Service, 11 January 2008
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The scientist who designed a <span id="HL0" onmousemove="javascript:ShowAdBox('notebook',event.clientX,event.clientY)" class="intelliword" onmouseout="javascript:InitializeTimer()">notebook</span> <span id="HL1" onmousemove="javascript:ShowAdBox('computer',event.clientX,event.clientY)" class="intelliword" onmouseout="javascript:InitializeTimer()">
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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.<br><br>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.<br>
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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.<br><br>Pixel
Qi will commercialise the screen technology, offering it to makers of
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</span> devices, she said on her Web site.<br><br>The high-resolution display that she invented lets users switch from colour to black-and-white when it is in direct sun.<br><br>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.<br><br>Prior to joining the OLPC Foundation, she was the chief technology officer of the display division of Intel.
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<br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 11/01/2008, <b class="gmail_sendername">Tapani Tarvainen</b> <<a href="mailto:tapani.tarvainen@effi.org">tapani.tarvainen@effi.org</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
[Please
note that by using 'REPLY', your response goes to the entire list.
Kindly use individual addresses for responses intended for specific
people]<br><br>Click <a href="http://wsis.funredes.org/plenary/">http://wsis.funredes.org/plenary/</a> to access automatic translation of this message!<br>_______________________________________<br><br>On Fri, Jan 11, 2008 at 06:15:19PM +0200, Rui Correia (
<a href="mailto:correia.rui@gmail.com">correia.rui@gmail.com</a>) wrote:<br><br>> After the $100 computer/ laptop (which ended up costing a bit more) now we<br>> have the $75 laptop.<br>><br>> <a href="http://www.itweb.co.za/sections/computing/2008/0801111001.asp?S=Reuters&A=REU&O=ql">
http://www.itweb.co.za/sections/computing/2008/0801111001.asp?S=Reuters&A=REU&O=ql</a><br><br>That link only shows the title here at the moment,<br>"Cheap laptop tech goes commercial",<br>and that is a bit misleading, I think:
<br>Negroponte's project is not going commercial,<br>just one of it's developers, Mary Lou Jepsen,<br>has left off to found her own company.<br><br>Anyway, we certainly don't "now have" a $75 laptop<br>
any more than we "had" $100 laptop three years ago:<br>it's just marketing hype at this point.<br>Only time will tell what will come of it.<br><br>But, here're a few more links for those interested in this:
<br><br><a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/technologyNews/idUSN1019897920080110">http://www.reuters.com/article/technologyNews/idUSN1019897920080110</a><br>(what the above probably was referring to)<br><br><a href="http://www.joeinc.tv/">
http://www.joeinc.tv/</a><br>(Epsen's own original announcement of the new company)<br><br><a href="http://www.pixelqi.com/">http://www.pixelqi.com/</a><br>(the new company's own website)<br><br><a href="http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20080107182525297">
http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20080107182525297</a><br>(long interview of Jepsen)<br><br><a href="http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,141230-c,notebooks/article.html">http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,141230-c,notebooks/article.html
</a><br><a href="http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/01/10/1827223">http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/01/10/1827223</a><br><br>--<br>Tapani Tarvainen<br>_______________________________________________
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