One Laptop Per Child Extends Promotion

November 23, 2007 By RODRIQUE NGOWI, Associated Press Writer One Laptop Per Child Extends Promotion (AP)

A laptop XO from the One Laptop Per Child Project is seen in this Sept. 10, 2007 file photo in Dresden, Germany. A promotion in which a customer buying a $188 computer in the U.S. and Canada automatically donates a second one to a child in a developing country was extended until year's end, organizers said Thursday, Nov. 22, 2007. (AP Photo/Matthias Rietschel)

(AP) -- A promotion in which a customer buying a $188 computer in the U.S. and Canada automatically donates a second one to a child in a developing country was extended until year's end, organizers said Thursday.

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