India’s $10 laptop Really a $100 laptop, Plus a Typo

July 30th, 2008 | Category: Gadget News

The Indian government promised to organize the development of a $10 LAPTOP for broad educational use. Indian Institute of Science in Bangalore and the Indian Institute of Technology in Madras are working on it.

Now, it turns out that claim was a typo. The transcript of a speech by D. Purandeswari, India’s minister of state for higher education, was simply lost a zero.

Original post by Mike

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