New Delhi, Sep 25: Maker of low cost Aakash tablet, Datawind, has said it has started supplying the new version of the tablet to IIT Bombay and it is likely to be launched in October."Supplies New ...

A few months ago, the Marathwada Institute of Technology, Aurangabad, got in touch with the Spoken Tutorial team at the Indian Institute of Technology-Bombay. The former had been approached by a ...

The low cost tablet project Aakash has allegedly closed down in March this year, according to an RTI query, reports the Hindustan Times. IIT Bombay, which was testing the tablet, claimed that it had ...

Six months after ministry of human resources and development formally launched Aakash tablet, barely a few hundred units have reached the hands of students. But the company squarely blames ...

UK-based Datawind today said IIT-Bombay is in the process of testing low-cost tablet PC 'Aakash' with upgraded specifications proposed by it. Datawind has submitted 100 samples to IIT-Bombay and the ...

With DataWind confirming the completion of the project, the Indian government's ambitious ultra low-cost Aakash tablet may reach the masses pretty soon. DataWind has announced completion of 100,000 ...

Rajesh Kushalkar, Project Manager Aakash project at IIT Bombay, is quite optimistic and confident about the capabilities of the Aakash 2 and tells us about the apps being ported to the tablet... If we ...

The Indian government’s ambitious ultra low-cost Aakash tablet is yet to see the light of day but has been already engulfed in a storm of controversy. DataWind, the company which was spearheading the ...

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At Rs 2,500, it is the cheapest tablet in the world. On October 5, 2011, Union Telecom Minister Kapil Sibal held it before the world and declared that it would "end the digital divide". Sadly, much ...