ICT SupportMicrosoft Would Put Poor Online by Cellphone.

Microsoft Would Put Poor Online by Cellphone. John Markoff. NY Times. Online January 2006. Microsoft executives are discussing their alternative to the $100 laptop: turning a cellphone into a computer by connecting it to a television and a keyboard. … Bill Gates, Microsoft's co-founder and chairman, demonstrated a mockup of his proposed cellular PC at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas earlier this month, and he mentioned it as a cheaper alternative to traditional PC's and laptops during a public discussion here at the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum. …