Malayasia goes gaga for Google

Developing countries are increasingly fertile ground for less-expensive computing technologies from the likes of Google.

Malaysia is the latest example, with 10 million students, teachers and parents adopting Google Apps, the company announced today. Apps is a cloud-based alternative to Microsoft's Office suite of software that can be used for free or with advanced options by subscription. Google's low-cost and zippy Chromebooks will be implemented across Malaysia's primary and secondary schools as well.