Whether you’re buying the first laptop for your fifth-grader or a graduation gift for your 18-year-old, deciding which model to get can feel like homework. Beyond the basics—Chromebook, Mac, ...

What did Nicholas Negroponte expect? His One Laptop Per Child initiative, launched in 2005, had all the right ideals but the wrong strategy. The idea of building a $100 laptop for children in ...

O.K., so his big brother John is Director of National Intelligence and delivers daily briefings to the President. But Nicholas Negroponte, 62, is trying to reach a far more challenging audience: the ...

As the world becomes increasingly technologically dependent, the use of computers in classrooms has become more beneficial. One university in Massachusetts is developing a durable $100 laptop computer ...

One Laptop Per Child shows off the first version of its XO laptop, including many features geared toward helping kids learn in their own environment The hardest thing about learning to use the OLPC ...

BOSTON (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp. hopes to develop a version of a $3 Windows software suite to run on low-cost laptops that a Massachusetts foundation wants to send to the world's poorest children.

The United Nations has joined an effort led by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to build $100 laptops and give them to schoolchildren around the world. The United Nations Development ...

Saying they hope to bring every child in the world a computer, Massachusetts Institute of Technology researchers are set to unveil a laptop that will cost around $100, run on batteries that can be ...

The One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) initiative has exceeded 250,000 laptops distributed in various parts of the world since production of the inexpensive XO machine designed for the program started in ...

Sitting behind a rickety desk in a room with cement floors and water-stained walls, Faina Iradukunda, 13, tinkers with a rudimentary animation program on a shiny green-and-white laptop. A cartoon cat ...

A Massachusetts charity aiming to deliver a universe of knowledge to children around the world has at least two partners in Lancaster County and would welcome more. With a goal of giving the world's ...