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Tuesday, January 17, 2012
LIFE: For students: Faster Aakash at no extra cost
LIFE: For students: Faster Aakash at no extra cost: College students across India will get an enhanced version of Aakash tablet without the government having to pay a penny extra. The Aakash ...
For students: Faster Aakash at no extra cost
College students across India will get an enhanced version of Aakash tablet without the government having to pay a penny extra.
The Aakash 2 tablet will three times faster than Aakash 1 and will have 50% more battery life. The latest version will have to pass a new quality protocol
prepared on basis of inputs received from around 600 students of IITs and engineering colleges.
“All issues have been resolved. We will receive 70,000 improved Aakash tablets from Datawind (the company supplying the tablets) by January-end,” said HRD minister Kapil Sibal, after reports of the ministry planning to put its pact with Datawind on hold.
The Aakash 2 tablet will three times faster than Aakash 1 and will have 50% more battery life. The latest version will have to pass a new quality protocol
prepared on basis of inputs received from around 600 students of IITs and engineering colleges.
“All issues have been resolved. We will receive 70,000 improved Aakash tablets from Datawind (the company supplying the tablets) by January-end,” said HRD minister Kapil Sibal, after reports of the ministry planning to put its pact with Datawind on hold.
Ministry officials said Datawind may not get order in future as it had violated the contract condition of providing the tablets first to the government before selling it in open market.
The HRD ministry had asked Datawind of Montreal-based Suneet S Tuli to supply one lakh Aakash tablets for around $50 each. In the initial lot, 600 tablets were given to students for testing.
IIT, Rajasthan, which had prepared the Aakash prototype cited several deficiencies in the tablet including short battery life, processor unable to handle multiple operations at a time and poor picture quality.
Datawind has already supplied 30,000 tablets by the time the report by the IIT came. The ministry held back the order and asked the firm to fix the deficiencies. Ministry sources said the company was initially reluctant to upgrade the tablet without increasing the cost. However, it agreed when ministry threatened to cancel the order.
Tuli was not available for comments. A company spokesperson said the remaining 70,000 tablets would be supplied as per the pact. “Not only Aakash from Datawind but all future tablets will have minimum Aakash 2 specifications,” said NK Sinha, additional secretary, HRD ministry.
Monday, November 28, 2011
BUSINESS THOUGHTS
A budget tells us what we can't afford, but it doesn't keep us from buying it.
William Feaher
A cardinal principle of Total Quality escapes too many managers: you cannot continuously improve interdependent systems and processes until you progressively perfect interdependent, interpersonal relationships.
Stephen Covey
A group or an artist shouldn't get his money until his boss gets his.
Bobby Darin
About the time we can make the ends meet, somebody moves the ends.
Herbert Hoover
All lasting business is built on friendship.
Alfred A. Montapert
Almost all quality improvement comes via simplification of design, manufacturing... layout, processes, and procedures.
Tom Peters
An advertising agency is 85 percent confusion and 15 percent commission.
Fred Allen
An economist is an expert who will know tomorrow why the things he predicted yesterday didn't happen today.
Laurence J. Peter
An economist's guess is liable to be as good as anybody else's.
Will Rogers
And while the law of competition may be sometimes hard for the individual, it is best for the race, because it ensures the survival of the fittest in every department.
Andrew Carnegie
Anyone who has lost track of time when using a computer knows the propensity to dream, the urge to make dreams come true and the tendency to miss lunch.
Tim Berners-Lee
As a small businessperson, you have no greater leverage than the truth.
John Greenleaf Whittier
Ask five economists and you'll get five different answers - six if one went to Harvard.
Edgar R. Fiedler
Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.
Thomas Carlyle
Business is a combination of war and sport.
Andre Maurois
Business is in itself a power.
Garet Garrett
Business is never so healthy as when, like a chicken, it must do a certain amount of scratching around for what it gets.
Henry Ford
Business, more than any other occupation, is a continual dealing with the future; it is a continual calculation, an instinctive exercise in foresight.
Henry R. Luce
Business, that's easily defined - it's other people's money.
Peter Drucker
Cannibals prefer those who have no spines.
Stanislaw Lem
William Feaher
A cardinal principle of Total Quality escapes too many managers: you cannot continuously improve interdependent systems and processes until you progressively perfect interdependent, interpersonal relationships.
Stephen Covey
A group or an artist shouldn't get his money until his boss gets his.
Bobby Darin
About the time we can make the ends meet, somebody moves the ends.
Herbert Hoover
All lasting business is built on friendship.
Alfred A. Montapert
Almost all quality improvement comes via simplification of design, manufacturing... layout, processes, and procedures.
Tom Peters
An advertising agency is 85 percent confusion and 15 percent commission.
Fred Allen
An economist is an expert who will know tomorrow why the things he predicted yesterday didn't happen today.
Laurence J. Peter
An economist's guess is liable to be as good as anybody else's.
Will Rogers
And while the law of competition may be sometimes hard for the individual, it is best for the race, because it ensures the survival of the fittest in every department.
Andrew Carnegie
Anyone who has lost track of time when using a computer knows the propensity to dream, the urge to make dreams come true and the tendency to miss lunch.
Tim Berners-Lee
As a small businessperson, you have no greater leverage than the truth.
John Greenleaf Whittier
Ask five economists and you'll get five different answers - six if one went to Harvard.
Edgar R. Fiedler
Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.
Thomas Carlyle
Business is a combination of war and sport.
Andre Maurois
Business is in itself a power.
Garet Garrett
Business is never so healthy as when, like a chicken, it must do a certain amount of scratching around for what it gets.
Henry Ford
Business, more than any other occupation, is a continual dealing with the future; it is a continual calculation, an instinctive exercise in foresight.
Henry R. Luce
Business, that's easily defined - it's other people's money.
Peter Drucker
Cannibals prefer those who have no spines.
Stanislaw Lem
Saturday, November 26, 2011
LIFE: GREAT THOUGHTS
LIFE: GREAT THOUGHTS: "The most important function of science is to awaken the cosmic religious feeling and keep it alive. It is very difficult to explain the ...
GREAT THOUGHTS
"The most important function of science is to awaken the cosmic religious feeling and keep it alive. It is very difficult to explain the feeling to anyone who is entirely without it. The individual feels the nothingness of human desires and aims, and the sublimity and marvelous order which reveal themselves both in nature and in the world of thought. He looks upon individual existence as a sort of prison and wants to experience the universe as a single significant whole." | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
-Albert Einstein,
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