For many who have been tracking the Indian government's efforts to come out with a cheap computing device that would help bridge the digital divide, the Aakash phenomenon, they would know, is......
The government's $35 device gives a sense of deja vu. Will low-cost computing gather steam this time? In May 2005, an Indian technology firm Encore Software announced a Rs 10,000 Linux-based......
The partnership between technology giant Intel and former MIT Media Lab Director Nicholas Negroponte's 'One Laptop per Child' project may have ended. It does not, however, sound the death knell for......
Two Indian companies -- Strand Life Sciences and Drishtee -- are among 47 'visionary' firms worldwide selected by the World Economic Forum as Technology Pioneers 2007 for their life-changing......
Novatium Solutions, a Chennai-based startup is building a $100 (Rs 4,300) computer using the "thin client" architecture. This, the company hopes, will take "computing to the next billion."In......