{"id":35382,"date":"2011-10-05T19:54:07","date_gmt":"2011-10-05T17:54:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=35382"},"modified":"2011-10-05T19:57:01","modified_gmt":"2011-10-05T17:57:01","slug":"india-plans-us35-tablet-pc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/gadgets\/35382-india-plans-us35-tablet-pc.html","title":{"rendered":"India plans US$35 tablet PC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>India is launching a cheap tablet computer it says will deliver modern technology to help lift villagers out of poverty.<\/p>\n<p>The computer, called Aakash, or &#8220;sky&#8221; in Hindi, is the latest in a series of cheap Indian innovations that include a 100,000 rupee ($2,040) Nano car, a 750 rupee ($15) water purifier and $2,000 open-heart surgery.<\/p>\n<p>Government subsidies promise a $35 price tag for students and teachers, with a regular retail price of about $45 from manufacturer Datawind.<\/p>\n<p>Indian Human Resource Development Minister Kapil Sibal invited competition to help drive down the cost.<\/p>\n<p>About 650 students collected the first Aakash tablets Wednesday and will begin training others in their use.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_35388\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/gadgets\/35382-india-plans-us35-tablet-pc.html\/attachment\/aakash_tablet_pc\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-35388\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-35388\" class=\"size-full wp-image-35388\" title=\"Aakash tablet PC\" src=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/Aakash_tablet_PC.jpg\" alt=\"Aakash tablet PC\" width=\"600\" height=\"376\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/Aakash_tablet_PC.jpg 600w, https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/Aakash_tablet_PC-100x62.jpg 100w, https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/Aakash_tablet_PC-185x115.jpg 185w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-35388\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Aakash tablet PC<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Indian tech manufacturer plans to launch a cheap tablet PC to bring technology to the rural poor, with government subsidies reducing the price to US$35<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":35386,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[5386,36,5390,5388,399],"class_list":["post-35382","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gadgets","tag-aakash","tag-active","tag-datawind","tag-india","tag-tablet-pc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35382"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35382"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35382\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35390,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35382\/revisions\/35390"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35386"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}