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From being a $10-million company, Datawind is now aspiring to become a half-a-billion-dollar company in just 12 months.
From being a $10-million company, Datawind is now aspiring to become a half-a-billion-dollar company in just 12 months.
Looks like Suneet Singh Tuli is not standing on his words with respect to delivery of ubislate 7+ tablets.<ref>{{cite web | title = Ubislate in Grahakseva |url=http://www.grahakseva.com/complaints/46438/delivery-status-of-ubislate-7}}</ref> <ref>{{cite web| title = Ubislate in ConsumerCourt |url=http://www.consumercourt.in/other-electronics-products/98459-delivery-status-ubislate-7-a-6.html}}</ref>


==See also==
==See also==

Revision as of 16:31, 29 July 2012

DataWind
Company typePrivate
IndustryComputer hardware
Founded2001 (Montreal, Canada)
HeadquartersLondon, United Kingdom[1]
Key people
Suneet Tuli, CEO
Raja Tuli, Co-founder, CTO
David Elder,COO
ProductsAakash tablet
Ubislate 7
PocketSurfer
Pocketsurfer2
Pocketsurfer3
Websitewww.datawind.com

DataWind is a British manufacturing and marketing company that produce wireless web access products, originally founded in Montreal[1] in 2001[2] by brothers Suneet and Raja Tuli[2] from the Indian state of Punjab.[3] Now headquartered in London, the company also has offices in Amritsar, Punjab, India; Dallas,Texas, US; and Mississauga, Ontario, Canada.[1]

With its research and development based in Montreal, the company until 2010 marketed its production primarily in the UK, where it is registered as an LLC.[4] In 2004, the company was described as a "small tech shop"[5] marketing its key product, the Pocketsurfer, a PDA/cell phone/web browser device. Several iterations of the Pocketsurfer followed.

Datawind is now widely known for its development of the Aakash, an inexpensive tablet computer developed in conjunction with India's Ministry for Human Resource Development (MHRD) and now seen as a way for the country to leapfrog the problems of educating its large population.[3] Following a development process beset by delays and setbacks,[2] the tablet will be offered at a sufficiently low price threshold – distributed by the government to students at a subsidized price of $35[2] and to the public (as the Ubislate 7) for $60[2] – to enable ubiquitous,[2] nationwide internet use. At the subsidized price, the tablet will cost about the price of a pair of shoes[6] or a basic mobile phone.[3]

Aakash tablet

In 2010 the company won an Indian government tender[2] to design the Aakash tablet computer[7] – now under manufacture by the Indian company, Quad, in an initial trial run of 100,000 units.[4] The Wall Street Journal called the Aakash, "the world's cheapest tablet."[8]

The seven-inch touch-screen tablet[1][2] was co-developed with Datawind and Indian Institute of Technology Rajasthan[8] as part of the country's aim to link 25,000 colleges and 400 universities in an e-learning program[9] with an ultimate production goal of tens of millions of units.[4] Datawind projects the Indian government will buy 8 million to 10 million devices by early 2012.[10] 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.[11]

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,"[12] by eliminating middle men whenever possible (DataWind itself designed the Aakash's boards, integrated components in-house and made the device's touch panel[13]), and by monetizing the operating system – that is, selling apps for the device through its own app store.[12] Despite using the Android operating system, the device does not have access to the Android Market.[6]

Future

“Not in my wildest dream I could have imagined this. Six months ago, the expectation for the tablet market was 2.5 lakh units a year. While talking to distributors, we would say we want to produce one lakh units in India, and they told us that if we were to sell 2,000 units a month, we should be happy. Now, we are looking at producing over four lakh units a month.”[14]

-Datawind CEO Suneet Singh Tuli,13 Jan 2012(on huge demand of Aakash)

ITPro India and other sources reported that Datawind is co-developing the world’s least expensive 4G-enabled tablet with Reliance Industries.[15]

Following the announcement of the Aakash, Datawind met Swedish Foreign Minister Carl Bildt.[16]

From being a $10-million company, Datawind is now aspiring to become a half-a-billion-dollar company in just 12 months.

See also

References

  1. ^ a b c d "Aakash tablet will end 'digital divide'". Montreal Gazette, Jason Magder, October 6, 2011.
  2. ^ a b c d e f g h "Meet Aakash, India's $35 'Laptop'". New York Times, October 5, 2011, Pamposh Raina and Heather Timmons. October 5, 2011.
  3. ^ a b c "Will Cheap Computer Bridge India's Digital Divide?". NPR, Corey Flintoff, November 2, 2011.
  4. ^ a b c "Aiming for the Other One Billion". New York Times, October 6, 2011, Heather Timmons. October 6, 2011.
  5. ^ "Biz Briefs: Web on the Run". Time Magazine, Sean Gregory, December 17, 2004. December 17, 2004.
  6. ^ a b "Aakash: Why Steve Jobs Would Applaud The World's Cheapest Tablet". International Business Times, October 6, 2011, Dave Smith.
  7. ^ Kurup, Saira (9 Oct., 2011). "'We want to target the billion Indians who are cut off'". Times of India. Retrieved 9 Oct., 2011. {{cite news}}: Check date values in: |accessdate= and |date= (help); Cite has empty unknown parameter: |coauthors= (help)
  8. ^ a b "India Announces World's Cheapest Tablet". India Real Time, viaThe Wall Street Journal, Tripti Lahiri, October 5, 2011. October 5, 2011.
  9. ^ [bbc_10740817">[1] "India unveils prototype for $35 touch-screen computer"]. BBC, 23 July 2010. {{cite web}}: Check |url= value (help)
  10. ^ "India's low-cost tablet is made by Canada's DataWind". Computer World, John Ribeiro, October 5, 2011.
  11. ^ "The $35 Tablet: Will India's 'iPad' Sell Stateside?". Time Magazine, Nilanjana Bhowmick /Oct. 17, 2011. October 17, 2011.
  12. ^ 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. October 9, 2011.
  13. ^ "India's Low-Cost Tablet is Made By Canada's DataWind". CIO Magazine, John Ribeiro, October 05, 2011.
  14. ^ "Datawind eyes $500-mn valuation in just 12 mnths". Business Standard, Piyali Mandal, January 13, 2012.
  15. ^ "After "Aakash" DataWind to develop cheapest 4G tablet". ITPro India, Priyanka Banerjee, 31 Oct 2011.
  16. ^ "Impressed by Aakash, Swedish minister to meet Datawind CEO". Thaindian News, 18 Oct 2011.
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