There is no further payment due to Quad Electronics, says Datawind

The celebrated Aakash project has been in the limelight for good, bad and ugly reasons. Late last week reports surfaced revealing that  cracks had developed between Canadian manufacturer for the world’s cheapest tablet, Datawind, and Quad Electronic, its Hyderabad-based assembly partner. In the blame game, Quad Electronics claimed they did receive payment from Datawind. On the other hand, Datawind said that Quad Electronics had infringed on their intellectual property rights and allegedly also signed a separate memorandum of understanding (MoU) directly with IIT-Rajasthan. Suneet Singh Tuli, CEO, Datawind shoots back calling the report an inaccurate and negative sensationalist attempt. Putting an end to speculations, he says that the company is still working on the Aakash-2 and will be supplying 100,000 Aakash-2 tablets through IIT-Bombay. Click here for full story