Congradulations to Indian Inventors! Thanks for the info: Blogged! :)
Danishka On Fri, Jul 23, 2010 at 11:19 AM, <goldf...@aol.in> wrote: > Hi friends, > > OpenOffice will be available to more than 11 million Indian Kids next year. > > "It can not only support video-web conferencing facility, but also boasts > of several other latest features -- multimedia content viewer (pdf, docx, > ods, ... , computing capabilities such as Open Office, ...." > > ( > http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/An-IIT-IISc-designed-laptop-for-just-Rs-1500/articleshow/6202207.cms) > > Keep it up Guys. > > Thank you volunteers and Oracle! > > Best regards, > Paul > > > > > > http://news.google.co.in/news/more?pz=1&cf=all&ncl=dMzfZnDvUIn_zgMgE51SLnwNfh5jM&topic=t > NEW DELHI: More than five years after it was conceived by then > education secretary Sudeep Banerjee to take on Nicholas Negroponte's > $100 laptop and one-and-half years after his demise, HRD minister Kapil > Sibal on Thursday unveiled access-cum-computing device priced at Rs > 1500 or $35 for students but can be eventually owned by public at > large. > > The sleek-looking device -- a cross between I-Pad and tablet PC and > charged by an equally sleeker solar panel -- is designed by experts at > IIT, Kanpur, Kharagpur, Madras and Indian Institute of Science, > Bangalore. The upper price limit for the device is pegged at $35. > > HRD ministry has made an open invitation to one and all to come up with > more variants that fulfills specifications spelt out by it. The > ministry has set up several separate teams, which are involved in > bringing out their prototypes. In the next few months -- by then more > innovations will emerge and even price can come down to $20 or $10 --- > the ministry will issue an international expression of interest for > manufacturing of these devices. "Initially manufacturing might be done > in Taiwan or some other place but eventually it will be done in India," > Sibal said. He said there are already enough offers for lower price. > The $35 price, he said, is inclusive of cost of manufacturing abroad. > However, the cost of the solar panel has not been factored into the > price yet. The ministry is in talks with a company to bring down the > cost of solar panels. > > One reason for the low cost -- apart from the falling prices of chip -- > is the sheer number of students who will get this device. Under Sarva > Shiksha Abhiyan alone, there are more than 11 crore children, who are > the likely receipients. Add to that lakhs of aided and unaided schools > in the primary and secondary sector. Even university student can use > the machine. At the current price point of $35, Sibal said, there would > be 50% subsidy toeducational institutions, which will effectively bring > down the cost to only Rs 750. The initial order will be for no less > than one lakh laptops. > > Based on Open Source, the device does not have a hard-drive. It can not > only support video-web conferencing facility, but also boasts of > several other latest features -- multimedia content viewer (pdf, docx, > ods, adp, xls, jpeg, gif,png, bmp, odt, zip, AVCHD, AVI, AC3), > searchable Pdf reader, unzip tool for unzipping files, computing > capabilities such as Open Office, SciLab for printing support, media > player capable of playing streamed along with stored media files, USB > port etc. > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@marketing.openoffice.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@marketing.openoffice.org > > -- Danishka Navin http://danishkanavin.blogspot.com
