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Plans to introduce another low-cost PC in India
Recently, it was reported that India’s HRD ministry is planning to introduce $10 laptops to children.
Now, Techtree is reporting that Intel may bring it’s low cost classmate PCs to India as part of its World Ahead Program. Pilot tests were conducted in some Delhi schools.
Designed for school going children, the classmate PC sports a 900MHz Celeron Processor, Flash memory (no hard disk). While OLPC’s laptops cost around 170$, these classmate PCs might cost around $280 dollars each, but the cost may fall with time.
The cost seems to be good – considering it takes $600 for an average PC here in India. Even though these computers are less expensive, I wonder who’ll train the students to use it. There’s no good infrastructure in India, and there are not so many teachers with necessary qualifications. The quality/standard of computer education is very low. Read the rest of this entry »
Rumour: Google may acquire Feedburner
Google is reportedly in acquisition talks with Feedburner, a feed management service that has become a favourite of bloggers, and other content publishers.
Feedburner, the so called Google Of Feeds, may be worth a $100 million.
What will Google get out of this?
- It is rumoured that Google may try to expand their RSS Ads market with this acquisition, and may even offer features to help users integrate their adsense ads (or even DoubleClick ads, for that matter
) with their feeds easily. - Google’s Blogger service can be further enhanced with Feedburner. And it’s possible that Google may provide Feedburner completely free (you now have to pay for some advanced statistics for your feed)
And who knows? Many more…
There’s no official word yet, and the Vecosys report says that though their source is good, they’re still not 100% sure that this would happen.
Anyway, let’s wait and watch as it unfolds…