When you think of the Simputer, the low-cast, Linux-based handheld device, do you see images of farmers, fields and cows? Then you have been laboring an inaccurate public image, according to the chief ...

We've been hearing about the Simputer, a PDA designed for use by the world's poor, for years and years now, and it's been delayed so many times that you've gotta wonder whether it was such a good idea ...

Only three years ago, the Simputer was the biggest story to come out of the Indian IT industry. It was to be the first time that a computing product would be completely indigenously developed and ...

BANGALORE, India (AP) -- The Simputer, a cheap, handheld computer developed by Indian scientists, promised a technology boost to the Third World's poor when it was introduced more than a year ago. But ...

SINGAPORE--Handheld computers are commonly seen as geek toys for affluent mobile professionals. An Indian group hopes to change that image with the Simputer, a device designed to bring portable ...

We’d be impressed if anyone remembered this, but the very first non-test post on Gizmodo was about the Simputer, a handheld computer designed to be used by the world’s rural poor. At the time we ...

Sitting in the palm of my hand, the Simputer, emerging from the tech city of Bangalore, India, has generated a mix of hope and pessimism that few hardware products from India ever have. But will the ...

India is ready this month to roll out its $200 "Simputer", a handheld computer aimed at wooing the poor across the digital divide. "The waiting period is almost over. We are near the take-off stage," ...

A group of Indian scientists and engineers has developed a handheld computer to help the poor and illiterate join the information age. Using the simple computer, or Simputer, and software that reads ...

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A cheap handheld computer designed by Indian scientists has been launched after a delay of nearly three years. The team first came up with the idea for the Simputer in 2001 to help India's poor join ...