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| Industry | Computers |
|---|---|
| Founded | Montreal, Canada |
| Headquarters | London Amritsar, India Dallas,Texas Mississauga, Ontario.[1] |
Key people | Suneet Tuli, CEO Raja Tuli, Co-founder David Elder,COO |
| Products | Aakash tablet Ubislate 7 PocketSurfer Pocketsurfer2 Pocketsurfer3 |
| Website | www.datawind.com |
Datawind, is a company manufacturing and marketing wireless web access products and originally founded in Montreal[1] in 2001[2] by two brothers, Suneet and Raja Tuli.[2] Now headquartered in London, the company also has offices in Amritsar, India; Dallas,Texas; and Mississauga, Ontario.[1]
With its research and development based in Montreal, Datawinds until 2010 marketed its production primarily in the UK, where it is registered as an LLC.[3] In 2004, the company was described as a "small tech shop"[4] marketing its key product, the Pocketsurfer, a pda/cell phone/web browser device. Several iterations of the Pocketsurfer followed.
Datawind is widely known for its development of the Aakash, a tablet computer that will be offered at a sufficiently low price threshold — distributed by the government to students at a subsized price of $35[2] and to the public (as the Ubislate 7) for $60[2] — to enable ubiquitous[2] internet use in the country of India.
Aakash tablet
In 2010 the company won an Indian government tender[2] to design the Aakash tablet computer[5] — now under manufacture by the Indian company, Quad, in an initial trial run of 100,000 units.[3] The Wall Street Journal called the Aakash, "the world's cheapest tablet."[6]
The seven-inch touch-screen tablet[2][1] was co-developed with Datawind and Indian Institute of Technology Rajasthanhas[6] as part of the country's aim to link 25,000 colleges and 400 universities in an e-learning program[7] with an ultimate production goal of tens of millions of units.[3] Datawind projects the Indian government will buy 8 million to 10 million devices by early 2012.[8] Time Magazine reported in 2011 that Datawind is considering marketing tailored variants of the Aakash in the U.K., the U.S. and Latin America.[9]
DataWind's has itself designed the Aakash's boards, integrated components in-house and made the device's touch panel.[10] In a 2011 interview, the company said it lowered the price of the tablet by developing patents to shift the device's processing burden to "backend servers in the cloud,"[11] by eliminating middle men whenever possible, and by monetizing the operating system — that is, selling apps for the device through its own app store.[11]
Future
ITPro India and other sources report that Datawind is co-developing with Reliance Industries to the world’s least expensive 4G-enabled tablet.[12]
Following the announcement of the Aakash, Datawind met with Swedish Foreign Minister Carl Bildt.[13]
See also
- List of technology companies in Montreal
- Comparison of Android devices
- Comparison of tablet PCs
- OLPC
References
- ^ a b c d "Aakash tablet will end 'digital divide'". Montreal Gazette, Jason Magder, October 6, 2011.
- ^ a b c d e f g "Meet Aakash, India's $35 'Laptop'". New York Times, October 5, 2011, Pamposh Raina and Heather Timmons.
- ^ a b c "Aiming for the Other One Billion". New York Times, October 6, 2011, Heather Timmons.
- ^ "Biz Briefs: Web on the Run". Time Magazine, Sean Gregory, December 17, 2004.
- ^ Kurup, Saira (9 Oct., 2011). "'We want to target the billion Indians who are cut off'". Times of India. Retrieved 9 Oct., 2011.
{{cite web}}: Check date values in:|accessdate=and|date=(help); Cite has empty unknown parameter:|coauthors=(help) - ^ a b "India Announces World's Cheapest Tablet". India Real Time, viaThe Wall Street Journal, Tripti Lahiri, October 5, 2011.
- ^ [bbc_10740817">"India unveils prototype for $35 touch-screen computer". BBC, 23 July 2010.
{{cite web}}: Check|url=value (help) - ^ "India's low-cost tablet is made by Canada's DataWind". Computer World, John Ribeiro, October 5, 2011.
- ^ "The $35 Tablet: Will India's 'iPad' Sell Stateside?". Time Magazine, Nilanjana Bhowmick /Oct. 17, 2011.
- ^ "India's Low-Cost Tablet is Made By Canada's DataWind". CIO Magazine, John Ribeiro, October 05, 2011.
- ^ a b "Aakash: We want to target the billion Indians who are cut off, says Suneet Singh Tuli, CEO of Datawind". Economic Times, October 09, 2011, Saira Kurup.
- ^ "After "Aakash" DataWind to develop cheapest 4G tablet". ITPro India, Priyanka Banerjee, 31 Oct 2011.
- ^ "Impressed by Aakash, Swedish minister to meet Datawind CEO". Thaindian News, 18 Oct 2011.