One Laptop Per Child Finds New Partners in Sri Lanka Test Run

Virtusa adopts OLPC as a pet cause, tests and improves hardware and software.

One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) has had its fair share of critique and controversy, but if any of that is putting a damper on the project, someone forgot to tell its founder, MIT Media' Lab's Nicholas Negroponte--now he's partnered with IT consulting group, Virtusa, which has decided to run user scenarios and tests to help improve the software and hardware behind OLPC.

Critics of the laptop plan have asked: Why put...