Who invented aakash tablet

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Its worth exploring if you still have interest in it. There is a huge scam behind Aakash and someone needs to dig it up. You are one of the few journalists who tried to get the facts but the total picture is a lot uglier. After a slow, rather opinionated start, the story gathers steam.

You make your point, a fair one at that. Do you have reasons to believe that things are still going out of hand? Secondly what the goverment is trying to make some business out of it as it clearly mention in the statement of govt that this is purely non profit based scenario just to improve the education of the country, as poor among poor can take up the current education but the thing is lacking behind is that the person who is unable to have a 2 time meal a day what he ll purchase the cheap tablet for education, as in this is totally back out by the govt.

I had read an article where the production has started in banglore and also delhi public school has distributed the tablet to the students of the school and after that govt demand the return of the tablet back to producer as it contains flaws with it, this is totally a weak system govt who dont know what to unveil and when to unveil as its save the money and manufacturing cost, same case happened with TATA NANO.

Not a fancy tablets, TVs, etc. Since all the politicians are rich and full of corruption everywhere,they don't meet poor people those who don't have the basic needs. They have to travel and live along with the people.

Funny how I spoke to Suneet Singh Tuli in November , when he was a speaker at TEDx Mumbai, and he seemed so confident that the press and the world and the thinking public had it wrong, and that he had it right.

He rattled off numbers on stage that seemed to indicate that Datawind had indications of interest for volumes that were 10x the size of the current tablet market. I distinctly remember his insistence, on and off stage, that what they were doing was possible, was done, and that they were one step away from delivery.

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The big challenges as nations try to craft a new global climate deal. How Arvind Lal built a single lab into India's most valuable diagnostic services powerhouse. When will corporations rule states? Entrepreneurs must have the right time perspective to grab new business opportunities. Photo of the day: Not so merry-go-round. In the most recent twist in the development of the unbelievably cheap piece of tech, the Indian government is trying to break a manufacturing stalemate by taking the decision away from the Indian university that created tablet prototypes.

As we wrote in early November , professors at Indian Institute of Technology IIT , Jodhpur, along with students at the institute, created the first models of the device, before handing over manufacturing responsibility to U. IIT is designing more advanced affordable prototypes, while concurrently testing the first batch of tablets that DataWind has made.

Meanwhile, several reviews of the device, including this recent one from IEEE Spectrum , have dismissed it as clunky and slow. The recent move by the government could prove to be a butterfingered attempt to break the stalemate. In a puzzling second twist, government sources have told the Times of India that two other universities—IITs in Chennai and Mumbai—will join the project as well. However, it is unclear what role they will play.