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<title>Technology Report / TD Ameritrade hopes to add tools with company purchase</title>
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<pubDate>9 Jan 2009 18:35 GMT</pubDate>
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...  Thinkorswim&#39;s Wednesday closing price of $5.65. The One Laptop Per Child program is paring its staff  ...  the project remains committed to its goals. Computer maker Dell Inc. announced Thursday it will  ...
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<title>MS ups pressure on Yahoo</title>
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<pubDate>9 Jan 2009 14:32 GMT</pubDate>
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...  to transform developing countries by giving free laptop computers to poor children suffered a devastating  ...  Institute of Technology professor who founded the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) Foundation. The foundation laid off 32 of  ...
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<title>XO Laptop Hits Bad Financial Spell, Fires Half Its Staff</title>
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<pubDate>9 Jan 2009 13:03 GMT</pubDate>
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...  US-based project that focuses to provide cheaper laptop for the children in developing countries is  ...  nonprofits that are facing tough economic times, One Laptop per Child must downsize in order to keep costs  ...  a pair of laptops for $400, and give one of them to a deprived child overseas,  ...
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<title>FLIR wins $12.8M contract</title>
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<pubDate>9 Jan 2009 13:03 GMT</pubDate>
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...  in conjunction with Mzinga&#39;s acquisition of Littleton-based Prsopero Technologies, LLC. CAMBRIDGE (AP) -- The One Laptop Per Child program, a nonprofit that is looking to bring the cost of computers  ...
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<title>OLPC Project in trouble? Job cuts announced</title>
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<pubDate>9 Jan 2009 11:32 GMT</pubDate>
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... OLPC Project in trouble? Job cuts announced One Laptop Per Child Foundation has announced that they are cutting some jobs in the operations  ...
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<title>OLPC cuts workforce in half</title>
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<pubDate>9 Jan 2009 10:57 GMT</pubDate>
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...  it away is weighing heavily on the OLPC project. The end of the first week  ...  news for a tech company, with the One Laptop Per Child project announcing massive lay-offs. According  ...
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<title>Laptop per Child project suffers economic squeeze</title>
<link>http://www.inboxrobot.com/news.php?fid=207284600</link>
<pubDate>9 Jan 2009 10:57 GMT</pubDate>
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...  to transform developing countries by giving free laptop computers to poor children suffered a devastating  ...  Institute of Technology professor who founded the One Laptop Per Child Foundation. The foundation laid off 32 of  ...  laptop. &quot;That shouldn&#39;t be the focus of OLPC any more,&quot; said Bender, who now runs  ...
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<title>Tech Ticker: Cadence, AMD, OLPC</title>
<link>http://www.inboxrobot.com/news.php?fid=207271083</link>
<pubDate>9 Jan 2009 08:52 GMT</pubDate>
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...  San Jose maker of programs for creating computer chips, named board member Lip-Bu Tan as  ...  growing financial strain on nonprofit groups, the One Laptop Per Child program is cutting its work  ...
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<title>Interest rates decline on fixed mortgages</title>
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<pubDate>9 Jan 2009 08:33 GMT</pubDate>
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...  closing Community Hospital of Los Gatos. NONPROFITS Laptop program halves its staff In another sign  ...  growing financial strain on nonprofit groups, the One Laptop Per Child program is cutting its workforce by half.  ...
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<title>Dream of changing the developing world with free laptops for poor children suffers a blow</title>
<link>http://www.inboxrobot.com/news.php?fid=207263974</link>
<pubDate>9 Jan 2009 08:10 GMT</pubDate>
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...  to transform developing countries by giving free laptop computers to poor children suffered a devastating  ...  Institute of Technology professor who founded the One Laptop Per Child Foundation. The foundation laid off 32 of  ...  laptop. &quot;That shouldn&#39;t be the focus of OLPC any more,&quot; said Bender, who now runs  ...
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<title>BRIEF: The Ticker</title>
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<pubDate>9 Jan 2009 08:02 GMT</pubDate>
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...  an effort to prevent foreclosures, and urged other lenders to follow suit. The Cambridge-based One Laptop Per Child group is cutting half its staff and lowering pay for the remaining  ...
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<title>Mortgage rates hit another low</title>
<link>http://www.inboxrobot.com/news.php?fid=207256231</link>
<pubDate>9 Jan 2009 07:29 GMT</pubDate>
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...  fellow members. In a sign of the growing financial strain on nonprofit groups, the One Laptop Per Child program is cutting its workforce in half. The project, which sells durable  ...
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<title>Nonprofit laptop maker forced to cut staff (Yesterday)</title>
<link>http://www.inboxrobot.com/news.php?fid=207246293</link>
<pubDate>9 Jan 2009 06:29 GMT</pubDate>
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... Nonprofit laptop maker forced to cut staff CAMBRIDGE, Mass.  ...  growing financial strain on nonprofit groups, the One Laptop Per Child program is paring its staff in half.  ...
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<title>OLPC loses half staff, reduces pay for others</title>
<link>http://www.inboxrobot.com/news.php?fid=207244614</link>
<pubDate>9 Jan 2009 05:44 GMT</pubDate>
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...  The announcement was posted on the . OLPC was launched in 2005 by Negroponte, an  ...  afford them. Mass production of the XO laptop computer in November 2007, manufacturing them to withstand  ...
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<title>OLPC - 100,000 Computers to Be Imported This Year</title>
<link>http://www.inboxrobot.com/news.php?fid=207236873</link>
<pubDate>9 Jan 2009 04:38 GMT</pubDate>
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...  100,000 computers this year to boost the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) programme that was launched  ...  by Richard Niyonkuru, the coordinator of the OLPC programme, during a meeting that brought together  ...
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