http://www.informationweek.com/education/instructional-it/amplify-tablet-hopes-to-rule-schools/240150167 MOVE OVER M.I.T's, now OLPC Foundation's, OLPC (one laptop per child) for the K-12 students in poor developing countries and those few 1000s that have had them in the USA the last 7 years! FYI the OLPC marketers still have not reached their desired price point when the project began in the 1990s of $100/unit for their child-sized, rugged, free-open-source Linux-OS powered wireless laptops that use custom and open source educational software. But the OLPC was placed by the 10s of thousands in many Latin American and South American countries, as well as some S.E. Asean countries in the 2000s. The new Amplify Tablet hopes to get students first in the USA to buy one for $299 plus subscriptions to content. The $299/unit is a not much different price point for not-poor Americans students and those in other developed countries than the first price for the beta and version 1 release of the OLPC which debuted in 2005. MOST INTERESTING to open source, open content, open, heteogeneous (any kind of) low-cost hardware Distance Learning software developers are the descriptions of the version 1 "user interface," like much else of the product, not that remarkable, but good ideas not yet deployed online or on tablets from other vendors or available in proprietary online learning management systems to-date (the latter which I, jgw, or interested content submitters to WLTRes need to confirm). Information Week magazine, pcmag.com, ran this story online March 6, 2013, with the title: "Amplify Tablet Hopes To Rule Schools." The story focuses more on the possible threat to education of the Amplify Tablet and the required yearly subscriptions and paid educational content and services student and teacher can receive exclusively via the new tablet. It also gives some superficial technical facts about the "Amplify Tablet." IW reminds us that the Amplify Tablet was announced to be a new product for education in June 2012 and was debuted to the press at the SXSWEdu conference on March 6, 2013. The tablet is produced by "Amplify.com," the relatively new, but very well funded, educational division of News Corp. News Corp., a chain of tabloid news papers world-wide, and this newer educational division are owned and controlled by billionaire far-right conservative Rupert Murdoch. Somehow the hardware, Android OS and other software of the Amplify Tablet are supposed to make education better and more compelling to teachers and students. There are many skeptics and suspicious observers of this newly announced product. The Information Week "Education" article does a significant service for K-12 computer hardware purchasers, educational applications developers, and educators by explaining some of the ways Amplify and indirectly News Corp. will control K-12 educational content, charge for some if not all of it delivered on their tablet, and possibly "hijack" and dominate the newly adopted "Common Core Curricula" for K-12 schools in the USA.