India brings Tablet PC for $35 only

Following TATA's NANO - the cheapest vehicle, now India is again in news for the cheapest tablet PC. Tablet PC is the smallest form of computer. The Indian Tablet PC named as Sakshat is meant for Educational purposes, mainly.

Kapil Sibal, India Human Resource Development Minister has unveiled preview with its earlier prototype available for showcase. The tablet PC will boast WiFi, and Touchscreen as main features. Considering the Hardware, Battery power and Price constraints, the device will be preloaded with Android Operating System which is increasingly gaining its popularity in handheld and mobile segments.

With its official release date in 2011, the government hopes to further reduce the price to $10-20 with subsidize and mass volume production by that time.

The tablet PC Sakshat is suitable for Internet browsing, reading e-books and viewing Multimedia.

Internet Explorer 8 Coming in August

Microsoft said yesterday it is planning on releasing yet another test version (Beta 2) of its Internet Explorer 8 (IE 8) Web browser in August.

In March this year, the company released IE 8 Beta 1 offering Web developers/designers a preview of the latest iteration of its popular Web browser. Also in March, the company revealed some of the new features IE 8 sports: for instance 'Activities' that lets you highlight text on a Web page and then take that passage to another Web service.

Microsoft said the upcoming IE 8 Beta 2 would be targeted more at ordinary Web users, and that it would have almost all of the features of the final-version IE 8 browser. Microsoft has given no official release date yet for IE8.