http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/3578309.stm
The company behind the device hopes to sell 50,000 in a year A cheap handheld computer designed by Indian scientists has been launched after a delay of nearly three years. The team first came up with the idea for the Simputer in 2001 to help India's poor join the internet age. But development of the computer was hampered by lack of investment and by little interest in the idea from computer manufacturers. The Simputer was officially launched on Friday and the basic model costs around $240. Cheap and accessible The Simputer is the first computer to be designed and manufactured in India. It was developed by scientists and engineers at the Indian Institute of Science in Bangalore who were looking for a way of taking the internet revolution to India's rural masses. --------------------------------------------------- This mail sent through http://www.easynetdial.co.uk ------------------------------------------------- a m b i t : networking media arts in scotland post: [EMAIL PROTECTED] archive: http://www.mediascot.org/ambit info: send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and write "info ambit" in the message body -------------------------------------------------
