Reliance Anil Dhirubhai Ambani group (RADAG) has launched $100 laptop by Nicholas Negroponte - founder of the ‘One laptop per child’ (OLPC) initiative - was. In fact, the laptops are priced at at $180 (around Rs 7,000). While the laptops are not close to the dream price of $100, the group feels that it will come down to $115 in a few years time. Under the initiative, Reliance Communications will provide internet connectivity, network backbone, logistic and support to the OLPC initiative in India, using its network that would cover over 25,000 towns and 6,00,000 Indian villages by March 2008.

In terms of technology, OLPC XO laptops with a Linux-based operating system consumes very little power (around 2 watt), instead of a hard drive it uses a flash drive with a 1GB capacity. Moreover, the laptops can be powered by alternate source of energy, they are sunlight readable, have in-built camera and multi-media capabilities.

OLPC has already provided laptops to 5 million school children across the world and aims to cover 150 million school children by 2008. The OLPC Foundation backed by United Nations has been set up by leading Global Corporates like AMD, Google, News Corp, Nortel, eBay, Citigroup, Seagate, Adobe etc.

Reliance Communications is rated among the Asia ’s 5 Topmost Valuable Telecom Companies is India’s truly integrated telecommunications service provider. The company has a customer base of over 38 million, including over 1.2 million individual overseas retail customers, and ranks among the Top 10 Asian Telecom companies.

Written by mahesh15 in Gadgets