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DataWind, the Canadian company that is manufacturing Aakash, has started the online booking and pre booking of the much anticipated low cost Android tablet. Online booking is for students' version of the tablet and pre booking is for UbiSlate 7, the upgraded version of Aakash.

Students' version of Aakash will be available for Rs 2,500 and will be delivered in seven days. The commercial version, UbiSlate 7 is priced at Rs 2,999. The payment mode for both the tablets is cash on delivery.

The commercial version of Aakash tablet will be powered by Android 2.3 and will have a resistive touchscreen, Cortex A8-700 MHz processor and graphics accelerator HD video processor, 256 MB of RAM and 2 GB of internal memory.

Other specifications are a one standard USB port, 3.5 mm audio jack, a 7 inch display with 800 x 480 pixel resolution, resistive touchscreen, GPRS and WiFi support.

After Firefox 8 formally landed in Ubuntu 11.10 last week, earlier today (November 28th) Canonical announced that the Mozilla Thunderbird 8.0 email client is now available on the official software repositories of the Oneiric Ocelot operating system. All Ubuntu 11.10 users can now upgrade (by running the Software Update app from the Settings icon) their default email client to Thunderbird 8.0, which was officially released by Mozilla at the end of the month, on November 8th, 2011.
Mozilla Thunderbird 8.0 is based on the new Mozilla Gecko 8 engine, providing new find and search shortcuts, as well as better accessibility of the attachment list. Moreover, the folder switching pane widget was removed from the Mozilla Thunderbird 8.0 email client, and several platform specific stability and security issues were fixed. Other Linux users can download the Mozilla Thunderbird 8.0 binaries and source packages for 32-bit and 64-bit architectures right now from Softpedia.

Also, don't forget to visit our always up-to-date Thunderbird Extensions section, for the latest add-ons!

COMPUTEX TAIPEI, the world’s second largest and Asia’s largest ICT tradeshow, is going to see record-breaking prospects in the numbers of the exhibitors, booths and International buyers in the upcoming COMPUTEX TAIPEI 2010. The show will feature wide-ranging products and forums related to e-reading, cloud computing, 3D technology, digital signage, mobile internet and such. Match-making procurement meetings held exclusively by TAITRA at COMPUTEX TAIPEI consolidates the show’s B 2 B role as the ultimate procurement platform. With the global economic downturn coming to an end, the meetings are bound to help the ICT annual extravaganza further business for all participants. 

COMPUTEX TAIPEI keeps outperforming itself!
COMPUTEX TAIPEI is one of the few ICT tradeshows with continued growth (in scale, visitors, and exhibitors) in the face of the global economic downturn while some other tradeshows had to reduce their exhibition days and areas. 1,750 exhibitors have signed up for COMPUTEX TAIPEI 2010, using 4,700 booths-- an increase of 50 exhibitors and 205 booths from previous year. It is expected the show will attract a record-breaking 35,000+ international buyers this year. The platform that gathers the best partners, prices, concepts, and components generated business worth an estimated US$20bn last year

Major players annually head to COMPUTEX TAIPEI to launch their latest technologies and products, such as Intel, Acer, AMD, Asus, Microsoft and so on. Last summer ACER underscored the importance of this dynamic trend-discovery platform by using it to team up with Google to unveil the Android mobile phone; AMD launched the world’s first DirectX 11 graphics processor. And Asus unveiled its 11-inch Eee PC Seashell. Intel introduced Core i7. Microsoft announced the wide adoption of Window 7. To further meet the demand, “New Product Launch Sites” both at the TWTC NANGANG Exhibition Hall and Hall 1 will have dozens of product launches by the exhibitors to help visitors get hold of the latest simply at one spot.

2,000+ procurement meetings make a difference!  
Match-making procurement meetings, more than 2,000 of them, are a core function at the annual show. In 2009’s show, these 1-on-1 meetings were exclusively arranged for top firms with annual sales exceeding US$10 mn, and generated business worth US$700 mn. This year’s show welcomes heavyweight buyers from across the globe with annual sales over US$50 mn to attend the match-making procurement meetings: annual sales exceeding US$22 bn is Alcatel-Lucent (Germany); annual sales exceeding US$2 bn are Best Buy (Canada), Future Shop (Canada), Newegg (Canada), Ingram (Canada), and Medion (Germany); annual sales exceeding US$1 bn are Siemens (Germany) and Pixmania (France).    

A series of events on the way
For the past 29 years, COMPUTEX TAIPEI has transformed itself into not only the world’s leading ICT procurement platform, but also an important force that has helped shape the ICT world that we see today. The show’s new slogan “Shaping the Future!” perfectly tells the story. In more than a hundred conferences and forums held during COMPUTEX TAIPEI, trends will be discussed and the future envisioned. E-reading will be discussed at the forum “E-book Industry Trend and Design Forum”； “3D Technology and Design Forum” will be focusing on the technology’s latest development and application；the widely-discussed cloud computing will also be featured in “Taiwan Int’l Cloud Computing Forum”.

Meanwhile, to celebrate the 30th anniversary, COMPUTEX TAIPEI 2010 will hold a golf tournament as a platform outside of the showground for networking and exchange of expertise between VIP professionals from home and abroad；COMPUTEX TAIPEI Miss Tech will be at hand, equipped with the skills and charm that can best represent the functionality and beauty of today’s ICT.

The design & innovation (d&i) awards winners will be announced during the show, and it will also include new product launches and demonstrations by key players across the ICT field.  With a string of events and services as well as a big variety of products and technologies that are bound to dazzle the visitors, COMPUTEX TAIPEI 2010 aims at outperforming itself as it welcomes IT professionals and press around the world.

by Priya Lalwani Purswaney

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Apple's new innovative product of the year iPad. It’s a complete web surfing device, Gaming device, book reader, Music, video, Apps etc...
It’s a most competitive product of Amazon kindle, Sony Play Station.

We are very happy to read the news, the implementation of National Unique Identity Card.This project is now gaining momentum when Prime minister Manmohan Singh appointed the IT giant Infosys Co-founder Nilekani as a Chairman of this mega IT project.This project was shaped by NDA-led Vajpayee government in 2003.

The iPhone 3G S which is being launched on Feb 2010, is however coming out with price tag of Rs. 35000 for a 16GB iPhone 3G S and something around Rs 45,000 for the 32 GB version.