The Aakash 2 tablet device that has been in development for quite some time is now finally being launched. Featuring a more powerful 1 Ghz Cortex A8 processor and a 512 MB RAM, Aakash 2 promises ...

It’s been a long time coming, but the Aakash 2 $35 Android tablet will finally be arriving in India next month. The Aakash 2 Android tablet, formally known as the Ubislate 7+ or the DataWind ...

This piece originally appeared in VentureBeat. The Indian government thinks the $35 Aakash Android tablet has the power to change the world. After testing one out, we’d tend to agree.

Earlier this year, it launched a tablet called MyEdu. Though it says it was “never in the race” for Aakash, sources say it backed out during pre-bid discussions due to the ministry’s ...

Students and professors designed the specs for Aakash, the world’s cheapest tablet. Then they handed over their work to a manufacturer. Now they’re working on new versions and hope one day ...

This will transform education and revolutionize commerce. When India announced its $35 Aakash tablet roughly two years ago, it made front-page news. From the specs, it was clearly a rudimentary ...

The tablet which was named Sakshat, has been renamed to Aakash (which means sky in Hindi). The government has managed to keep up its promise of pricing the tablet as less as possible. For over an ...

The Aakash tablet has already acquired the distinction of being one of the cheapest to own right now, though the device in all probability is going to take on a whole new form.

DataWind, the company producing India's low cost Aakash 2 tablet, has missed the government's deadline of March 31. Instead, it has has assured that 63,000 units will be delivered by April 9 ...

OLPC also launched a new low-cost tablet, which runs on solar energy, at this year's Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. As pondered earlier the jury is still out on whether Aakash will flop ...

The Union human resource development (HRD) ministry may refuse to extend the letter of credit (LC) to Montreal-based DataWind, the makers of the world's cheapest computer tablet, Aakash ...