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INR 50,000 allotted to each M.P. for buying iPads

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ipad-mpMPs have started going high-tech as Parliament is now providing them with sleek iPads, and for those who aren’t tech savvy, special orientation classes are now being organised to make Parliamentary business paper-free.

Soon MPs and ministers in Parliament would be reading the business listed against their names not from a sheet of paper but iPads.

The Parliament Standing Committee on IT had during the monsoon session made this recommendation and the idea was to make Parliamentary work hassle free and paper free.

Based on this recommendation, the Parliament Secretariat decided to sanction a maximum of Rs 50,000 to buy an Apple iPad 2 or Samsung Galaxy Tab.

The scheme has first been implemented in the Rajya Sabha within a fortnight. The Lok Sabha Secretariat is planning to roll out the scheme to the members of the lower House.

Samsung Galaxy tab ban lifted in most of Europe

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tabSamsung can sell its latest iPad rival in most of Europe again after a German court lifted most of an injunction it had imposed at Apple’s request.

The Duesseldorf regional court said it was questionable whether its authority extended to international companies operating outside Germany, so it restricted a preliminary ban imposed last week on Samsung Electronics to Germany.

Samsung’s Galaxy Tab line of tablet computers is considered the most credible alternative to Apple’s iPad, which has taken the market by storm, selling about 30 million since its launch a year and a half ago.

Apple and others have moved aggressively to defend their intellectual property in maturing markets, especially against Google’s Android software platform, on which the new Samsung Galaxy 10.1 tablet is built.

Android, a latecomer to the mobile market, has become a target by rapidly turning into the world’s most popular smartphone platform. Google is relatively defenseless because it owns few wireless patents, in contrast to older rivals.

On Monday, Google agreed to buy Motorola Mobility, the descendant company of cellular phone pioneer Motorola, for $12.5 billion, largely for its vast patent library.

Apple iPad launched in India (finally)

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After exactly a year since its official launch, the Apple iPad has been finally launched in India.

The range starts from Rs.27,900, in two flavors – WiFi and WiFi+3G.

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(Click on image to go to Apple Store India)

Apple iPad was sold like hot cake worldwide, selling around 15 million units and earning above $9.7 billions. With tablets getting hugely popular in Indian market, it would be interesting to see how iPad fares in India, especially when the launch of iPad2 is just around the corner.