http://www.zdnetindia.com/news/hardware/stories/169458.html Simputer project struggling to keep afloat IANS, January 30, 2007 Talk BackE-mailPrint The Simputer...
It's too bad since so many of us had wanted to buy and distribute them with our own applications. Perhaps if the Manufacers had not been so Phobic and refused...
i am really surprised at the failure of Encore to market the product . Whats has bee the reason for the failure of the product ? has there been inadequate...
... IMHO, the product is doomed. This was an open design which can not be manufactured without sizable investment. Had the populated motherboard made...
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Some thing like simputer which started with such a great goal and concept, how it became such a failure( Failure in commercial terms, not in terms of...
Have seen simputer at IT.com. if it is the very same they going to market, then it is very difficult input any data (even characters even english ones). it is...
read the comments of a group member on the commerical fall of the simputer. i feel so sorry for the project. ve got an idea. why dont we set-up an evaluation...
... An excellent idea! I am all for it. Let us take a stock quickly on the pros & cons of simputer: + PROS: 1. Reasonably powerful CPU 2. Embedded Linux OS 3....
great idea. lets do the e-mail conversations first before creating hard core group. from entries recieved we can create a group of professionals. not...
Simputer, Hovering Between Hope and Impatience... By Frederick Noronha Freelance Journalist and a founder of Bytesforall. Sitting in the palm of one hand, this...
Hello All, This is fantastic idea. A different group should emerge with core simputer developers to make this a success story from the sub continent. In my...
Why do people think Simputer was a uniquely Indian peice of hardware? It wasn't. It was based off of Intel's Assabet board. The value add the IISC folks...
I don't disagree with your comments, however Simputer is an efoort by Indians. If you consider OLPC project, then in your context it is not uniquely to...
impressed by your mail. how can we work on this. what are the possiblities? how can you proof that 90 us dollars can produce a complete computing system. send...
... Yes, take a look at http://www.simputer.org/simputer/license/ So I had the amounts wrong... "Any commercial exploitation of the Specifications (whether...
Sujani /Soumyanath , please share your profiles and interest in doing this overall activity . i am a Management Consultant and i can clearly see the...
... Exact amount is not the real issue. In the first place Simputer design borrowed heavily on published StrongARM design. Value addition by the core group on...
Paresh , i am in full agreement with your assessement . i do think the design group has gone overboard on their enthusiasm to place the cart before the horse...
Hi! You can see my profile at http://www.soumya.name; I have already setup a list for the group to share ideas on future specs, you can subscribe by sending a...
Thats y OLPC was more of a success. outsourcing today is the key to global business development. most technology inventions are not produced in one spot. the...
Its good to see various voices that are at least attempting to evaluate simputer.. Just a couple years ago, simputer seemed like a religion- unassailable.. and...
Hello Ravi /Mark , Kindly share your views on the above issues as the originator and custodian of the idea ..where are we on this .. in fact i have been...
Thanks Mark , This clears a lot of confusion --i was thinking that the entities were the same ..now you have clarified that they are managed separately . i...
Dear Sanjay: Let me first clarify that I am the President of Encore Software Limited and alsoa Trustees of the Simputer Trust and not connected with PicoPeta....
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Dear All, Simputer is alive at least for us, we think there are not many people working on it but we are still marketing and also making applications, some...
whats the cost of producing 25k simputer? interested in marketing and can distribute in Africa. my organization has got offices in south africa, nigeria,...
... We are the one who still are keeping the simputer flag up and keeping on marketing and making applications and delivering if you are interested please do...