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- 'Poor-man's computer' to educate young Indians - The first assignment of a poor man's hand-held computer, developed in Bangalore, is to bring basic education to tribal children in central India. [Asia Times]
atimes.com/media/CI22Ce01.html
- 'Simple computer' that reads your e-mail for you - It's not a palm-top, it's not a computer. This pocket-sized device can talk to you, read out your e-mail and is called a "Simputer." [Yahoo]
in.news.yahoo.com/010718/43/11fgk.html
- 'Simputer' Aims at the Developing World - Innovative sub-$200 Internet device will help non-literate users. [PC World]
www.pcworld.com/news/article.asp?aid=17401
- 'Simputer' cometh - In a bid to take information technology to the masses in India and other developing countries, academics and students from the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) at Bangalore, and engineers from Bangalore-based design company Encore Software Ltd., have designed in their spare time a sub-$200 handheld Internet appliance. [IDG News Service]
windows.idg.net/english/crd_internet_192403.html
- A Simple Plan - From Bangalore comes a spirited attempt to bring computers to the gigabyte-less masses. [TIMEasia.com]
www.time.com/time/asia/digital/magazine/0,9754,107313,00.html
- About the Simputer - Answer to questions about the Simputer.
anchlia.8k.com/aboutSimp.html
- Gear up for the launch of Simputer this month-end - The revolutionary computing product - Simputer - is all set for a nationwide launch by month-end. The product has been launched by Simputer Trust in association with Bangalore-based Encore Software Ltd and professors from the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore. [Financial Express]
www.financialexpress.com/fe/daily/20001102/fco02022.html
- Handheld PC bridges digital divide - Indian scientists invent cheap device enabling poor and illiterate to surf internet. [The Guardian]
www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,3604,518681,00.html
- How Can You Use A PC If You Can't Even Read? - Indian scientists design a computer specially for the poor. [Asiaweek.com]
www.asiaweek.com/asiaweek/technology/article/0,8707,132690,00.html
- India to Compute on the Cheap - In spite of the country producing some great tech talent, the vast majority of India's nearly 1 billion people haven't benefited from the IT revolution at all. [Wired]
www.wired.com/news/technology/0%2c1282%2c44642%2c00.html
- Indian handheld to tackle digital divide - Indian scientists and engineers develop a handheld computer to help the poor and illiterate join the information age. [BBC News]
news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_1442000/1442000.stm
- Low-cost 'people's computers' target developing nations to get poor on-line - High-tech whizzes in developing countries are cobbling together bare-bones "people's computers" -- dubbed "Volkscomputers" in Brazil -- to offer the poor a bridge to the Internet Age -- a market that major PC makers have overlooked. [workopolis.com]
globeandmail.workopolis.com/servlet/News/fasttrack/20010522/RVOLK
- PicoPeta Simputer Pvt. Ltd. - A Simputer solutions company. The primary business is to use the Simputer as a building block to provide large scale IT solutions to International clients.
www.picopeta.com
- PicoPeta Simputers - A simple handheld to bridge India's digital divide. [Technology Review]
www.technologyreview.com/magazine/sep01/7_picopeta.asp
- Simple Inexpensive Mobile Computer: The Simputer - Sachin Karol links to this Time Asia report about the Simputer. [Slashdot]
slashdot.org/articles/01/05/02/1822219.shtml
- Simputer to bridge digital divide - A non-profit group in India has created a simple, inexpensive, multilingual handheld device aimed at bringing computing to Third World nations — dubbed the Simputer. [MSNBC]
www.msnbc.com/news/577521.asp?cp1=1
- Simputer to bridge divide - Four scientists from India's premier science institute and three private entrepreneurs have unveiled a prototype of the "Simputer" - a portable handheld computer for the rural masses. [Australian IT]
australianit.news.com.au/articles/0,7204,1966787%5E15306%5E%5Enbv%5E,00.html
- Simputer's Ajit Anvekar: Keeping up the Open Source 'josh' - Ajit R. Anvekar didn't grow up with a computer, in fact, he bought his own PC only about two years ago, but he has already contributed to one of the best examples of Open Source's potential effect on the digital divide. [NewsForge]
www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=01/06/19/022239&mode=thread
- Simputer: the computer for the masses - For sheer versatility, the thingamajig is streets ahead of other gizmos. It's simple, it's portable. At about Rs 9,000 per piece, it's highly affordable. [rediff.com]
www.rediff.com/money/2001/apr/24spec.htm
- The Simputer Project - Aims at developing low cost access device that can pervade the rural landscape, especially in third world countries.
www.simputer.org
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