Wednesday the Indian government began distributing 100,000 computer tablets in New Delhi. The Aakash is a cheap tablet that will be handed out to school children, as part of an initiative to help the poor access the digital world. Anchor Marco Werman talks to Rajat Agrawal, executive director of BGR India, an online tech review magazine, about the new device.
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