Intel’s plans for the Classmate PC.   I’m Fred Fishkin with technology BootCamp, a report on gadgets and gear.   Intel was not the first out of the gate with ruggedized computers designed for education and children throughout the world.  In a sense, it has been in competition with One Laptop per Child.     At Intel’s education market platform group,  research and planning director Dr. Wayne Grant says there is software for students and teachers built in and…

“Surrounding all of that, we also have a wider range of applications that we’ve made available through our ecosystem in a program that we call the Intel Learning Series Alliance, wherein we have identified and we work with over 350 education application and peripheral providers that determine best of class education products.”

Not only do they have to be tough and smart, they have to be affordable.    There’s more info at Intellearningseries.com.   You can find us at BootCamp.com.   I’m Fred Fishkin.