Intel and $100 laptop join forces (BBC)

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Chip-maker Intel has joined forces with the makers of the $100 laptop project.

The agreement marks a huge turnaround for both the not-for profit One laptop per Child (OLPC) foundation and Intel.

In May this year, Nicholas Negroponte, the founder of OLPC said Intel "should be ashamed of itself" for efforts to undermine the $100 laptop initiative.

He accused Intel of selling its own cut-price laptop - the Classmate - below cost to drive him out of markets in the developing world.

"What happened in the past has happened," said Will Swope of Intel. "But going forward, this allows the two organisations to go do a better job and have better impact for what we are both very eager to do which is help kids around the world."
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more: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/6897950.stm

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1. That is good news. For the world.