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Great technology brings with it the power of great possibilities: Vishal SikkaThis empowerment will help us to not just solve but uncover new challenges and new demands that lie unarticulated, and are the very essence...
- Cheapest tablet: How sky can be the limit for Aakash, plan for commercial success
Aakash is a project with an audacious goal. Even if it fails, we need to keep attempting such projects and learn from the mistakes
- @ Rs 47,000 a bargain home: MIT architects produce the first prototype of a low-cost house that has four rooms, is easy to build
MIT architects produce the first prototype of a low-cost house that has four rooms, is easy to build and can withstand an 8.0 magnitude ear...
- Cyber leap: Rs 500 laptop to revolutionize e-literacy
A $10 laptop (Rs 500) prototype, with 2 GB RAM capacity, brainchild of IIT-Madras and IISc, would be on display when the National Mission o...
- NComputing gets large low-cost PC deal in India
A Silicon Valley company is claiming victory in its efforts to sell low-cost computers to schools in India. Managing email | Citizen Bloggi...
- One-laptop project to debut in Maharashtra
MIT professor Nicholas Negroponte’s One Laptop per Child (OLPC) project has finally found its way to India.
- After cheap cars, the race hots up for cheap PCs
The key to making a cheap computer is to make low cost chips and processors. These models would generally have small screens. Thinnest Lapt...
- Intel pulls out of $100 laptop venture
Intel, the world’s largest chipmaker, split from a foundation working to provide $100 laptops to the developing world, ending a six-month t...
- XO laptops find application as census number crunchers
Apart from the low-cost, the XO laptops have the advantages of a 7.5-inch TFT screen that can be read in the sun, a spill-proof keyboard, l...
- One laptop per child finds way into India
The one laptop per child (OLPC) project, a brainchild of MIT professor Nicholas Negroponte, will soon find its way into Indian homes.
- One Laptop Per Child extends program to poor nations
The project that hopes to supply developing-world schoolchildren with sub-$200 (euro135) computers has extended the promotion in which a cu...
- Michael's bytes & chips were 'Dell-ightful'
When Michael Dell and his giga-byte team stepped out from a cavalcade of black Mercs just in time for ET’s afternoon news meeting, they had...
- Five members to join super-panel
As per the terms of the agreement between Dow Jones and Rupert Murdoch’s news Corp, a five member panel has been set up, which will have th...
- Cheap laptops project for poor countries draws big competition
A programme to provide millions of low-cost laptops to students in poor countries is set to start production in September even as commercia...
- Intel "attitude" irks Negroponte
The much-talked about 'One Laptop Per Child' project (OLPC) has sparked off yet another controversy.
- Encore set to bag Brazilian laptop order
Bangalore-based IT products company, Encore Software is in the race for providing cost effective laptops for the Brazilian government.