$35 Touchscreen Tablet Today, Cheaper Services Tomorrow

India has released a $35 tablet computer that runs on the open-source Linux operating system and comes with an optional solar power upgrade.

MIT's $100 laptop for children in the developing world wasn't cheap enough for the Indian government. So they developed their own.

With many of its 1,140 million people in poverty, India's human resources development minister now wants to get the computer's price tag down to a more affordable $10.

This is obviously a good thing, bringing access to modern technology to those who previously didn't have it. However, ripples will clearly be felt throughout the technology market globally and, in the longer term, as developing world populations become more computer literate, I expect services here will have to come down too.