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Just how fast things move in the Internet world. Sample this: earlier today Zenith Computers and Microsoft announced a laptop at a price point of 15K that they claimed was the lowest priced so far. While the industry was still debating the claim, Union Minister for Communication and Information Technology, A Raja announced that the industry is working on nettops and netbooks that would hit the market at the 5K price point. The promise, of course, is that it will hit the stands in the next few months.
But about the devices first. Nettops and Netbooks will be compact mobile devices that children, first time users can use for basic computing applications, listening to music, e-mailing and surfing the net. They can also be used for playing basic online games, social networking and making VOIP calls.
Based on Intel's Atom processor, which is the lowest power and lowest priced chip from the chip-maker's stable, the industry including Acer, HCL,Lenovo, Wipro, Zenith, Intex, Novatium, showcased various designs at an event organized in New Delhi on Thursday.
The industry and government came together at the Connected India Movement event where various stakeholders came together to pledge their support to an initiative to connect a billion Indians. The event marked industry alliance with the government, NIIT, Tata Teleservices, Tata Communication, Relaince Communication, CII, Assocham, WiMax Forum and MAIT, coming together to kick-start what they termed as a low cost connectivity initiative for India. Intel has also signed a MoU with bsnl to jointly propagate broadband Internet and WiMAX.
Two remarkable things about the event were that it gave the industry the dream to have as many connected computers in India as exist in the world today (read one billion). The other interesting thing was that Microsoft was conspicuous by its absence in an event of substantial magnitude.
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