- Facebook ditches Scrabulous.
- Adobe releases 64-bit Photoshop Lightroom 2.
- Microsoft shows off new spherical display device.
- Get your own jetpack for $100,000.
- Dell bringing out mini-desktop, perhaps a smart phone and Wal-Mart laptops.
- 70-percent of Government laptops are stupidly unencrypted.
- DS piracy rampant in Japan.
- India going to develop a $10 Laptop.
- China to clone Blu-ray with new standard.
- Will Android merge with Symbian?
Right click here and select ‘Save Link As…’ to download the mp3 file.
Yea, it’s called a notepad.
Symbian/Android merger? Don’t bet on it.
No talk about BT purchase and opening of Ribbit?
India going to develop a $10 Laptop.
India’s slogan: Everything you can do, we can do cheaper!
Could you build a simple PDA with three lines of display, a few K of memory and QWERTY buttons for 10 bucks? Maybe.
The CPU would cost more than $10.
I also cannot imaging a $10 laptop that would be of much use.
“In 2005, MIT’s Nicholas Negroponte tried, and failed, to develop a laptop that could be sold for $100. Three years later, analyst group Gartner says that the industry will have to wait another three years to hope to achieve it. ”
http://tinyurl.com/6ba7wo
$10 Laptop – The catch? You have to turn it upside down and shake it to reboot. 🙂
I guess ducks painted on the jetpack would be cool.
Jetpack Video
#8 for the win
A $99 laptop already exists:
http://tinyurl.com/6ktkr4
Too bad Nicholas Negroponte couldn’t figure out how to make one.
The trick to making a $10 laptop is wait for another Chinese factory to make a knock-off copy of the $99 model.
Indians are good at salvaging parts and making thing work. You should see pictures of rual cell sites rigged up on trees with old satellite dishes.
Pfffffttttt… I’m sure that most computers cost about 4-5 bucks to manufacture with Chinese slave labor anyway. It just means less of a profit margin for these Indians.
Yep!
When I informed one my Japanese collegues (and a very dear friend) way back in 2005 that India is planning to have a car within 2000 USD – he did not believe. Even I was not able to do the maths. But then, I had the belief in Tata. They did it this year and within the same price (USD has deprecated and it is now 2500 USD!).
I also find the maths for 10 USD laptop to be tough, but then considering the parties involved,i.e., IIT and IISc, it will be done. I do not how, but it will be.
Also, Tata project was within time, scope, a little over cost. Quality parameters meet all the needed world standards and customer satisfaction will be there (I am not talking of a Beckham or a Brad Pitt as its customers). Project Management at its best:-).
And is it not high time that we all start delivering projects (or at least think) within price, scope, and timeline, in place of making them as ridiculous failures as we have seen so much in Software. (over 70% are failures) Also we have tons of money being burned for projects of no value – Iridium, Concorde …
Also, India’s per capita income is 950 USD, and 10 USD is good money (for yours truly included). I should know – as a simple one like for PMP cerification, I have not spend a penny for tution/coaching (only money paid was to PMI and that too was a heartburn), whereas when I read blogs people have spent over 5000 USD to get certified! Good lord!
The $10 Indian Laptop must be an ABACUS !!! A mature technology and REALLY CHEAP, and in some tests FASTER THAN AN ELECTRONIC CALULATOR !!!
i want to be the agent of that laptop in my country