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...
23 Dec, 2014, 01.29 PM IST
- 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
09 Oct, 2011, 11.38 AM IST
- @ 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...
17 Sep, 2011, 09.47 AM IST
- 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...
30 Jan, 2009, 09.47 AM IST
- 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...
13 Oct, 2008, 09.29 PM IST
- 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.
02 Feb, 2008, 01.22 AM IST
- 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...
31 Jan, 2008, 03.57 PM IST
- 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...
05 Jan, 2008, 12.00 AM IST
- 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...
11 Dec, 2007, 05.11 AM IST
- 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.
02 Dec, 2007, 12.05 PM IST
- 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...
23 Nov, 2007, 09.15 AM IST
- 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...
31 Oct, 2007, 03.19 AM IST
- 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...
03 Aug, 2007, 01.35 AM IST
- 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...
28 May, 2007, 02.51 AM IST
- Intel "attitude" irks Negroponte
The much-talked about 'One Laptop Per Child' project (OLPC) has sparked off yet another controversy.
22 May, 2007, 08.40 PM IST
- 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.
19 Dec, 2006, 02.44 AM IST