Under its “Give a Laptop, Get a Laptop” scheme on European Amazon outlets (www.amazon.com/xo), consumers will pay  £268, and receive one XO model, while another will be donated to a school child in a developing nation.OLPC founder Nicholas Negroponte revealed the plan to extend the scheme, run in America last November and December, in a speech to the World of Health IT Conference in Copenhagen. The company will be hoping to sell more than the 190,000 units it sold then, because its deal with Amazon should make the units more visible to consumers who might already for shopping for similar ‘netbook’ style machines. Initially, OLPC aimed to create a sub-$100 laptop to encourage the education of children in the developing world, based on ideas first outlined by Chairman Nicholas Negroponte in 1995. clipped from www.telegraph.co.uk

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