10/07/2011

India Unveils Inexpensive Tablet Computer




The device is called the Aakash, which means sky in Hindi, and will be available to students for $35. The aim is to close a vast digital divide in India where, by one estimate, only five in 100 people use the Internet.
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5 comments:

Anonymous said...

Do I have to read this twice? Why?

DAN IN LA MESA CA said...

Great. Just what we need is another generation of hackers from yet another country.....

Just kidding. This is great new IF they use it for education and not Bollywood movies or music or games. Only 7% of children in India graduate from High School. Many never even attend. It would be nice to see improvement and perhaps a little bit of extreme poverty wiped from the face of the earth. This looks like a good start.

terry said...

Only 7% sounds like Texsucks Dan! I heard they want every student in the country to have one. But given many farmers are committing suicide because they can't afford Monsanto seeds, guess their kids cant afford one of those.

DAN IN LA MESA CA said...

Yeah our American inner cities are getting closer and closer to the 7%, all the while spending on education is incresing volumes. Something wrong with this picture.

As far a a farmer not being able to afford seeds, this is perhap the BEST investment these banks who are sitting on tons of unused cash can make. Something wrong here as well.

terry said...

EVERYTHING is wrong! Remember, Monsanto is a big corporation with far reaching tentacles!