BANGALORE, India (AFP) - The world’’s largest chipmaker Intel has designed a low-cost community personal computer for India’’s vast rural market to be launched by December, a top company official said.
Though Intel has yet to announce the price of the computer, it was expected to cost less than 10,000 rupees (220 dollars) and was aimed [...]

It’s premature to gauge how successful One Laptop per Child will be in its quest to build a laptop that will sell in bulk quantities for $100 (or eventually less). The consortium plans to sell large quantities of the inexpensive devices to governments, which will in turn distribute them to children in less affluent countries. [...]

For those are keen on following the Web 2.0 (AJAX, mashing etc.) progress Pete found a few good blogs:
http://blogs.zdnet.com/web2explorer/
http://blogs.thoughtworks.com/ (generally kick ass dev blog)

It is official. About nine months from now, consumers will be able to switch between operators while keeping their telephone numbers.
This comes with the publication of regulations around number portability published in the government gazette.
Cell C, the smallest of the three mobile operators, and widely touted as possibly the biggest beneficiary of number [...]