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Monday,
September 17, 2001
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Lens on IT |
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Professors (L-R) Vijay Chandru, Vishwanathan Vinay and Swami Manohar hold Simputers, a cheap hand-held computing device they helped design, in Bangalore. The Simputer is aimed at delivering the Internet to rural masses in India. The professors have now formed a company, PicoPeta Simputers Pvt Ltd, which will make software tools to enable content and education using the Simputer.
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Jeffrey Bezos, CEO of Amazon.com Inc., speaks to an auidience after receiving a gift in the NASDAQ stock market studio headquarters in New York. Online retailer Amazon.com Inc., facing slow revenue growth as it struggles to reach profitablility, said it was "optimistic" about the upcoming Christmas season sales.
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