Recently the company responsible for designing India’s $35 Aakash tablet announced plans to launch a second generation device. It will have a faster processor, and longer battery life, but it will ...

The Indian government and Canadian company DataWind are launching what might be the world’s cheapest tablet this week with the Aakash, a 7-inch Android tablet. While the device will not impress ...

The Indian government started something great with the original Aakash 2 tablet. It set out to revolutionize the Indian education, and to help hundreds of millions of its own people to get better ...

India’s highly touted $35 tablet, set to ship in two to three weeks, is getting a makeover with improved hardware and Google’s Android 4.0 OS, according to the company assembling the device for the ...

India's first low-cost tablet, the Aakash (aka UbiSlate 7), is receiving overwhelming attention and demand from both corporate and individual buyers, with more than a million units of the device ...

The Aakash tablet has already acquired the distinction of being one of the cheapest to own right now, though the device in all probability is going to take on a whole new form. No, we are not talking ...

The Indian government thinks the $35 Aakash Android tablet has the power to change the world. After testing one out, we’d tend to agree. An Aakash tablet was brought to the VentureBeat office on ...

Inexpensive homegrown tablets - think between US$60 and $200 - abound in India, where the per-capita income, despite the fast-rising economy, remains US$3,700 per year. But the uncrowned king of ...

When it come to Android tablets, no one tablet is made equal and with tablets costing less and less these days it begs the question, “How cheap can they go?”. Well, if you happen to live in India they ...

An upgraded version of the Aakash tablet is underway, which was speculated to cost more than the Aakash. However, Telecom and HRD Minister Kapil Sibal has allayed such concerns, while also claiming ...

Imagine for a moment you’re a scientist looking at a stubborn problem—in this case, a mass of a few hundred million poor, uneducated people. To lift them out of poverty, friends who study economics ...