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India's $35 Tablet Computer 294

NotBornYesterday was one of many readers sending in news that the Indian government has announced it is helping to develop a $35 tablet computer running Linux. "India has unveiled the prototype of a $35 basic touchscreen tablet aimed at students, which it hopes to bring into production by 2011. The government plans to subsidize the tablets so the cost to students could be $20; and eventually, they hope the cost will fall to $10 per unit. India's human resource development minister, Kapil Sibal, says, 'The motherboard, its chip, the processing, connectivity, all of them cumulatively cost around $35, including memory, display, everything.' Using a memory card instead of a hard drive, and running a Linux OS, the designers have managed to keep the price low, and are now looking for manufacturing partners. The tablet can be used for functions like word processing, Web browsing, and video conferencing. It has a solar power option too, which is important in India's less developed areas, though that add-on costs extra."

Submission + - Indian currency gets a symbol (time.com)

slack_prad writes: The Indian government ran an year long open contest for the symbol and among 3000 shortlisted, 1 was chosen and announced.

The symbol will be included in the “Unicode Standard” for representation and processing of text, written in major scripts of the world. Consequently, the symbol will be encoded in the International standard ISO/IEC 10646. The symbol will also find its place in the Indian Standards. While the the encoding of the rupee symbol in the Indian Standards is estimated to take about six months, its inclusion in the global standards would take about 18 months to two years.

Comment Re:Which devices? (Score 1) 305

don't think G1 is powerful enough to run the stock 2.2 (or anything above 2.0). 2.x and > have 3d elements built into the OS which the G1 simply is not capable of running (app list, Gallery)

They'd have to make a different 2.2 just for G1 with all that removed ..

I think cyanogen has made a 2.x port to G1. He may do a 2.2 port too.

Google

Google Outlines Feature Set For Android 2.2 305

evdotorrey writes "Google announced new features and improvements for Android 2.2. New features include Flash and HTML 5 support, faster browser performance using the V8 engine, Microsoft Exchange support, a Portable Hotspot feature that makes your phone a Wi-Fi hotspot, and many more exciting features." An anonymous reader adds some more on the new release, codenamed Froyo: "Google claims the operating system will be from two to five times faster thanks to advances made in the compilers and the Dalvik virtual machine it uses, and how it is ported to new processors and platforms. On the enterprise front the new operating system comes with full support for Microsoft Exchange, including access to the global address book and the ability to translate native security features to mobile handsets. APIs have also been added to allow controls such as the automatic wiping of missing handsets and other remote management features. Google is also making its voice translation and search APIs open to developers, and showed off an application developed for the handset that allowed real time translation from English to French."
Censorship

YouTube Blocked In Pakistan 299

kokoko1 submits this snippet from The Telegraph, which reports that Facebook isn't alone — now YouTube, too, is being censored in Pakistan. "The blocking of YouTube comes a day after a Pakistani court blocked Facebook amid a growing row over a competition on the social networking website to design cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad." Update: 05/20 18:58 GMT by T : According to an anonymous reader, Wikipedia and Flickr are out, too.
Update: 05/21 12:11 GMT by KD : And now add Twitter to the blocked list. This post claims that more than 1,000 sites are being blocked in Pakistan.

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