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IIT-B Certifies That Aakash II Is Fit For Use
The second revision of the ultra-low cost tablet Aakash is ready for its launch. Ironing out the earlier kinks that caused a lot of rift between the manufacturers & the testers, Aakash II will...
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Aakash II Will Be Out Soon: Sibal
The ultra-low cost Aakash tablet will “soon” have its second revision released, confirmed HRD Minister Kapil Sibal. He was addressing the first convocation of the Birla Institute of Technology and...
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Aakash Tablet Will Feature Upgraded Features. Education To Get Mainstream...
Aakash, the education specific 7” tablet has had a long history. So long in fact, the hardware is starting to appear very much dated. That will change if IIT Bombay’s (IIT-B) recommendations are...
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Aakash II Will Come Out With Android’s ICS On-Board. Ultra-Affordable Gets...
Aakash II Tablet will finally make its appearance on 11th of next month. India’s Human Resource, Information Technology & Communications Minister Kapil Sibal has additionally confirmed that the...
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Aakash II Charms Union Ministers
The Aakash tablet has been in the news for the past one year for glorious as well inglorious reasons. First, Aakash II got delayed because of differences between IIT – R and Datawind. Then it was...
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HT Says Aakash II Sourced From China; Datawind Rubbishes Claims; We Ask, Does...
India’s ambitious e-education hardware project, the Aakash Tablet seems to have gotten itself in yet another controversy. A report from Indian daily Hindustan Times (HT) claims that instead of the...
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Datawind Fields Questions On Aakash II Post Allegations
Ever since the entry of Datawind in the Indian cynosure of technology development, its been huddled with controversies. While we all know well how Aakash fared, the latest from the stables of Datawind,...
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Aakash 3 Is In The Pipeline; May Have Calling Functionality
The third iteration of ultra-low cost tablet education-centric Aakash is already in the pipeline. The Indian Institute Of Technology Bombay (IIT-B) is busy developing newer apps & innovations for...
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The Latest Iteration Of Aakash Will Be Priced At Rs. 1500: Kapil Sibal
Kapil Sibal’s pet project, the education centric ultra-affordable tablet Aakash could land in people’s hands for a paltry sum of Rs. 1500 stated the Union Telecom and IT minister. Undergoing multiple...
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Aakash Tablet’s Future In Jeopardy As Government Mulls Scrapping The Project
The ambitious ultra-low cost tablet, meant to revolutionalize education in a vast country like India, may be very short-lived. The Human Resource Department, once headed by the project’s founder Kapil...
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Datawind Confident Of Completing Backlog Of Aakash Tablets Before April-End
Datawind, the manufacturer entrusted with the responsibility of supplying the world’s lowest cost education-centric Aakash Tablets, is now positive of fulfilling Indian Government’s pending orders by...
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Datawind Struggles, But Completes Entire Pending Order Of 1 Lakh Aakash II Units
India’s dream to give a positive boost to education via electronic medium of Tablets seems on its way to fruition. Datawind, the company assigned with the duty of manufacturing 1 Lakh units of...
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Aakash 4 Now Comes With Phone Functionality And 4G Internet Connection
The indigenous low-cost Indian tablet; Aakash has undergone multiple revisions to iron out the shortcomings. However, its 4th avatar may move ahead of the mainstream commercially available models with...
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Happiest Minds To Develop Apps And App Store For DataWind’s Aakash And...
Ultra-affordable Tablet PC creator DataWind, has partnered with IT firm Happiest Minds Technologies to seek development of an app store repository replete with apps. Happiest Minds has been signed-up...
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DataWind Introduces Possibly The Cheapest 5″ Smartphone In Indian Market
DataWind, the company that became famous for making the ultra-affordable Android Tablet; Aakash, has possibly come-up with the cheapest large-screened Linux and Android Phones in India. Launched under...
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