India rejects One Laptop Per Child India has decided against getting involved in Nicholas Negroponte’s One Laptop Per Child scheme – which aims to provide kids in developing countries with a simple $100 machine.… but Nigeria is to go ahead with it.
Category: Technology
Been to Netscape.com lately?
Netscape versus Digg Newly relaunched Netscape.com has been getting into a bit of a slanging match with Digg – the site which gets its users to rate news stories.…
CERT-In and the attacks
“India is under attack from rogue elements within and outside the country, not only in its physical space (think Mumbai), but in cyberspace too. Extensions “.co.in†and “.gov.in†are special targets of hack-attacks, whose number, and intensity, is increasing at a worrying pace,” reads a report from Vandana Gombar in the Business Standard today. CERT-In…
Privatisation ahead, go slow!
Hearing looks at Internet name privatization plan WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Commerce Department will hold a Wednesday hearing on the government’s September deadline to give up control over Internet domain names, a schedule that some high-tech industry advocates say should be delayed.
Browser to Flock
Fred Garland referred me to Flock. It is clearly a nex-gen browser. The convenience of bogging and Flickr makes Flock vying for the default browser status. The Web snippet tool is useful but that’s the only tool available in the blogging window. You’ll have to make do with the default theme of the browser. It…
Unlimited broadband and free
Now that’s an offer one can’t refuse! MTNL is offering unlimited surfing for its broadband subscribers and for free. The offer is: no monthly rental, subscribers pay only for the data downloaded. MTNL plans to provide cable TV channels to its broadband subscribers — an issue that might raise the hackles of some in the…
Broadband growing
At 1.5 million subscribers this year up from a few thousands last year, broadband has seen a 600 per cent growth rate, according the Internet Service Providers Association of India. Dial-up users have also grown by 24 per cent to touch 6.9 million users. Net telephony is an attraction that is bound to see rapid…
Net to the rescue after Mumbai attack
A disturbing part about the Mumbai terrorist attack was the “collapse” or jamming of the cellphone service. According to the Business Standard: “Net becomes the saviour as cell phones go blank“. The report says: “The clogging of telephone networks — both mobile and landline — during the hours of crisis in Mumbai led to an…
A message from Yahoo and MSN
According to a report in the Business Standard: “Yahoo and MSN Instant Messaging (IM) users from India and 14 other countries will be able to invite and chat with each other beginning today.” Good news!
Cognizant and new media
This is something very inspiring. K.T. Jagannathan’s report in the business page of The Hindu say that Cognizant Technology Solutions has formed a digital media centre of excellence. High sounding, but it means the company will focus on developing tools for the new media market. I guess you can’t expect these to be available in…