Laptop

"Laptops have a high usage rate," said Tseng.

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"SOS Online Backup is thrilled to be named Editors' Choice by LAPTOP magazine," said Ken Shaw, Chief Technology Officer of SOS Online Backup. "This is another validation of SOS's ability to deliver not only the best value, but also the most flexible and personalized online backup solution that secures and protects our customers' valuable personal and business information."

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"Laptop backlash poses particular difficulties for people without offices, says Leah Meyerhoff, 29, a film director and free-lancer.

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"OLPC has experienced great success when support for our mission comes from both the government (top down) as well as from grassroots (bottom up)," said Nicholas Negroponte, founder and chairman of One Laptop per Child. "The partnership with Rwanda represents a substantial commitment by both OLPC and Rwanda to bring learning to the grassroots and country level, which is exactly where it should be. "

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"For them to propose this was astounding," said Keller, who works for One Laptop per Child, a Cambridge, Massachusetts, nonprofit committed to creating and distributing affordable, durable and solar-powered laptops to the world's poorest children. "That hunger for knowledge, that desire to learn, is pretty profound."

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OLPCorps "represents a determined effort by One Laptop per Child to engage university students worldwide in bringing an education revolution to children living in some of the most remote places on Earth," said OLPC founder Nichola Negroponte, in a statement. "By empowering students from a multitude of countries and cultures to act as agents of change, the belief that all children have a right to quality education-regardless of where they happen to live-will spread across the globe."

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"Dell, Fujitsu, Lenovo, Acer -- they're very well-connected. Laptops have become an integral part of the mobile broadband market," he says. "And those companies are very good at logistics, streaming production."

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"Given the recent damage done to schools in what is already a very poor and very isolated part of the world, it is more important than ever to give these Palestinian children access to rugged, connected laptops that will open up worlds of knowledge and hope to each of them," said Nicholas Negroponte, founder of One Laptop per Child. "It is our hope that this small but important donation will spur others to act now. "

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In his blog post, Negroponte said OLPC remains dedicated to "bringing the cost of the laptop down to Zero for the Least Developed Countries -- the $0 Laptop."

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"Separately," Negroponte wrote, "OLPC will be dedicated to bringing the cost of the laptop down to Zero for the Least Developed Countries - the $0 Laptop. "

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