Software giant Microsoft today unveiled specially bundled tablet for private schools in partnership with computer maker Acer, MBD Group and Tata Teleservices in India for Rs 24,999.

The tablets will be available to all private schools (K6-12) in India.

"The specially created bundle comprises a Windows 8.1 tablet -- an Acer Iconia W4-820, which comes with a HD IPS display with enhanced brightness for reading in sunlight and runs on the latest Quad Core Intel Atom Processor," Microsoft India said in a statement.
The tablet features Office Home and Student as well as Office 365. Microsoft has also included Office 365 Education A2 and Microsoft Office Specialist (MOS) certification for students, it added.

The bundle also includes digital learning curriculum for students of K-12 state boards, CBSE and ICSE from publishing house MBD Group.

The interactive multimedia content from MBD is currently available in English and will soon be available in various regional languages as well, Microsoft said.

On optional basis, Tata Teleservices is providing Photon Plus for high speed Internet services on the move. Customers opting for Photon Plus will get 1 GB of free data usage every month for a period of 12 months from the date of purchase.

The cost of the device along with 1 GB free data usage would be Rs 3,649.

Yahoo has spruced up its official Mail app with fresh user interface and a full screen reading mode for the Apple iPad tablets and Android tablets.

Yahoo has launched a new mail application for the Apple iPad and Android based tablets. The new Yahoo! Mail app serves the same purpose - help read email in better format. However, this app brings a special full screen function for reading an email by making the best of the screen real estate. The all new Yahoo! Mail app is already available for the iOS based tablets from the Apple App store and Android tablets from Google Play store.

Yahoo! has already offered the mail app for the iOS and Android based smartphones. Now the company aims to gain attention from the rising number of tablet owners. The new Yahoo! Mail app brings the large twin column based email inbox experience on the Apple iPad tablets and Google Android based tablets.

The tablet interface offers a new email reading mode that basically allows the user to read any email in an interactive full screen mode. Quick accounts switching is now possible through the sidebar menu options. Starred Folder has been added to view important set of emails.

The new user interface and reading mode certainly are the nifty improvements that come along with several bug fixes for the tablet version of Yahoo! Mail app. However, the real question is whether Google and Microsoft will consider tweaking the respective email user interface just for tablets.