Business interests trump charity: Intel and OLPC split
Intel's involvement with the "one laptop per child" project comes to a bitter end. The company's initial support was undercut by their production of a more expensive Classmate PC running Microsoft Office on an Intel processor.
"It's a little bit like McDonald’s competing with the World Food Program."
monochrom is an art-technology-philosophy group having its seat in Vienna and Zeta Draconis. monochrom is an unpeculiar mixture of proto-aesthetic fringe work, pop attitude, subcultural science, context hacking and political activism. Our mission is conducted everywhere, but first and foremost in culture-archeological digs into the seats (and pockets) of ideology and entertainment. monochrom has existed in this (and almost every other) form since 1993. [more]
