in part:Cellphones have eclipsed coprutems, both desktop and laptop, as the most promising technology in emerging economies such as India, China and Africa, something that MILLEE embraced from its founding in 2004. In 2007, Businessweek writer Bruce Nussbaum reported that the One Laptop Per Child initiative should, after much fanfare, be called a failure, âÂÂCell phones are far more popular as the means to connect to the net in much of the Third World,â wrote Nussbaum, âÂÂand cellphone-type devices rather than cute little laptops might have made much more sense.â |