Posted on 23 July 2010
Filed under: Computers
In today’s new world economic order, China’s supposed to be the one providing us with cheap products, and India’s supposed to be the guy we call when said cheap products break down. Now, though, the mighty subcontinent has decided to throw its hat into the low-cost manufacturing ring with the release of a new $35 tablet.
According to Human Resource Development Minister Kapil Sibal, the cost-friendly reader will come equipped with 2GB of RAM, run Linux, and will be able to open both PDFs and YouTube videos. As Engadget reports, Indian students will get an even sweeter deal, as the government is planning on providing enough subsidies to allow hard-working collegians to pay a mere $20 or so. As you can see in this video, the new device probably won’t make Steve Jobs lose much sleep anytime soon. But, in India’s huge and relatively low-spending consumer market, a new tablet doesn’t have to be tricked out for it to rake in a lot of profit. [From: Engadget]
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Posted on 21 July 2010
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Kolkata may be the land of elaborate Durga Pujas, cinematic legend Satyajit Ray and coronary-inducing kati rolls, but the Eastern Indian metropolis is also the land of a virulent phone scam that’s been quietly making its way around the world for the past two years.
As the Guardian reports, a group of scam artists based out of the former Indian capital have been calling random households, and posing as Microsoft technicians. The callers typically claim that they’ve detected a major problem with their victims’ PC and say that if the issue isn’t remedied, the computer will be rendered unusable. With a heavy Indian accent, the scammers then direct their targets to their computers, where they ask them to open ‘Windows Event Viewer,’ which displays a long list of technical jargon that, to the layperson, might look worrisome. The “technicians” instruct users how to fix the non-existent problem by directing them to a website and asking them to install “preventative” software (which, of course, costs £185, or about $283). If the user falls for it and installs the malware then, he or she instantly gives the scammers complete access to data on the computer.
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