Hi there, I’m Candice So, and you’re watching All Hands on Tech. While tablets and other mobile devices are gradually becoming less expensive, you should still expect most of today’s tablets to run
Published on: March 6th, 2014
Candice So
@candice_so
It’s been a little over two years since Canadian device maker DataWind first began selling its Aakash tablet in India at a price tag of $47, in a bid to bring Internet connectivity
Published on: February 13th, 2014
Candice So
@candice_so
The Mississauga, Ont.-based tablet manufacturer known for bringing ultra-low cost tablets to India are now launching mobile devices to the Canadian market starting at $37.99, it announced this morning. The UbiSlate tablets have
India's US$35 tablet has yet to take off, with less than 10,000 units of the device released to the market since its October launch, despite considerable interest from consumers, an executive of maker
Published on: April 16th, 2012
John Ribeiro
@itbusinessca
Montreal-based DataWind may lose its contract to make India's subsidized $35 tablet computer, according to a report published today.Following user complaints about battery life, slow performance and thetablet's touch screen, the Indian government
Published on: February 22nd, 2012
ITBusiness Staff
@itbusinessca
According to a report published in the Indian financial daily, The Economic Times, it seems that the wait for the world's cheapest tablet Aakash is likely to get even longer.The delay is due
Published on: January 26th, 2012
Zafar Anjum
@itbusinessca
Suneet Singh Tuli, CEO of Datawind Inc., a small Montreal-based company, has been travelling like a whirlwind back and forth between Canada, the United States and India lately thanks to the wave of
Published on: January 20th, 2012
Nestor Arellano
@itbusinessca
The small Montreal-based company Datawind Inc. is still labouring to fill orders for its Aakash tablet, but there are already complaints about the ultra-low cost device.To start, there was no shortage of naysayers
Published on: January 13th, 2012
Nestor Arellano
@itbusinessca
OLPC, the acronym for One Laptop Per Child, might have to become OTPC if the program's latest reference design takes off. The nonprofit dedicated to bringing technology to kids in developing countries, in
Published on: January 10th, 2012
Yarden Arar
@itbusinessca
DataWind Inc. is targeting sales of about 6 million units of its low-cost tablet in India this year, but it has to arrange additional manufacturing capacity and strengthen its support network to meet
Published on: January 6th, 2012
John Ribeiro
@itbusinessca
Since landing a contract to produce tablets en masse for India, DataWind CEO Suneet Singh Tuli has become something of a manufacturing rock star appearing in national media and sought out for meetings
Published on: January 5th, 2012
ITBusiness Staff
@itbusinessca
Montreal tech firm reveals secrets of building the world's cheapest tablet Four hundred thousand, that was the number of units pre-ordered in October last year by people eager to get their hands on
Published on: January 5th, 2012
Nestor Arellano
@itbusinessca
India is closer to its much-touted target of a $35 tablet, with DataWind, a wireless Web access products maker in Montreal, designing and making a device that it will sell to the government
Published on: October 6th, 2011
John Ribeiro
@itbusinessca
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