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| mint website on mobile goes live |
| The popular business daily mint has gone live on mobiles. One has to type m.livemint.com and thereupon one can see latest business and stock news on the handset much like reading the newspaper, reports livemint
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| Free IT education for NE students |
| Students of Northeastern part of the country are soon to get free IT education from Institution for promotion of education and Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan. This move is being assisted by PM's special funds, reports iGovernment
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| Community radio stations crosses 100 in India |
| The total number of CRS (community radio stations) in the country crossed 100 recently. The break up is - NGO/CSO - 35, Educational Institutions - 46, Agricultural Institutions - 25 Total = 106 as on 31 August '08, reports cr-india
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| Bank comes in your mobile phone |
| To enable the unbanked population have access to an entire bank branch on his mobile phone, a Mumbai based firm has come up with the idea of incorporating a bank branch in the cellphone. The move follows RBI's recent guidelines to reach the unbanked sector, reports TOI
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| Rural mobile connectivity now 30% |
| Out of roughly 300m mobile phone users in India, 70m are now from rural India. This is a heartening statistics in view of the set goal of 500m connections by 2012 by GoI out of which 200m has to be from hinterland. Private players are also playing their part in this growth as 75% of the new connections are coming from them only, reports The Hindu
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| Digital exclusion rampant in UK |
| As many as one in 5 Britons have expressed their unfamiliarity with things digital like using e-mails and despite 65% broadband penetration, the lack of basic computer skills is hampering them greatly, reports Timesonline
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| Online travel industry booming |
| Ever increasing number of travellers in the country are using digital methods to facilitate their foray into the outside world. The online travel industry is booming for now, reports FE
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| WWW is 15 years old |
| It was on April 30 '1993 that the World Wide Web came into existence. An estimated 165 million websites now exist. As it turns 15 years old, its inventors say www is just in its infancy and would grow to affect virtually every sphere of life in future and for good, reports Manoramaonline
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| Project e-Shishu completed |
| e-Shishu, an ambitious project specially designed to help track some 10.8 mn school going children up to 14 years of age has been completed in Orissa. The project also bagged the Prime Minister Award for Excellence in Public Administration for the year 2006-07, reports digital opportunity channel
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| Mobiles to double up as credit cards |
| Soon you mobile phone will double up as your credit card to allow you an out of wallet payment option. It's utility as a payment mode has been recognised by the RBI as the apex bank sees the growth of mobiles as a unique opportunity to expand banking services, reports TOI
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| ICT spreading in Bhutan |
| A sum of Nu 2 billion has been earmarked for the increasing the Information Communication Technologies infrastructure in Bhutan as the country takes several measures to up ICT usages among the populace, reports igovernment.in
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| STD/Roaming rates slashed by Airtel |
| Leading telecom operator Bharti Airtel has waged another war in the competitive mobile segement in India.They have slashed the distance calling (STD/raoming rates) rates by as much as 43% from the present Rs. 2.65/pm to Rs. 1.50 p/m in case of STD and for roaming from Rs. 1.75/m to Rs. 1 p/m (42.85%) w.e.f. April 30, reports Financial Express
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| DEF coached competitors among YES Fund Business Plan Winners |
| Digital Empowerment Foundation continues to support ICT for entrepreneurs in India. The latest adventure is 3 of the competitors for Global YES Fund Business Plan Competition 2008 is coached and guided by DEF with mentoring support from Osama Manzar, Director, DEF.
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| Learn IT as a hobby in holidays |
| Andaman & Nicobar is giving an option to its school students to learn IT skills as a pastime during the coming summer vacation thereby ensuring introduction to ICT at an young age enabling the tiny UT to be an e-state shortly, reports igovernment.in
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| E-village scheme inaugurated in Gujarat |
| An E-village scheme has been inaugurated in Gujarat wherein all the 590 villages in the Amreli district are to be provided with an internet connection, reports The Hindu
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| Rural teledensity sop by GoI |
| Licence fee is to be waived off of rural fixed line telephony soon. The biggest beneficiary would be state run BSNL who provide 90% of rural telephone connections, and the move would surely help increase the teledensity, reports Livemint.com
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| BBC to teach English to Bangla on TV/mobiles |
| Bangladeshis will soon be able to learn English through their TV/mobile screens in partnership with BBC World Trust. With the burgeoning mobile users in the coastal country, the service is expected to increase beneficiaries' job prospects in the changing world, reports digital opportunity channel
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| Afghan education scene looks up |
| Afghanistan is making rapid progress in terms of giving education to its children especially girl children, aided in part by the UNESCO, reports igovernment.in
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| Microsoft enters voice search market |
| Microsoft has followed Yahoo in offering voice search in its latest move available as of now on latest Blackberry models of RIM. The program determines the user's location to customise the search, reports The Asian Age
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| US recession to fuel Indian BPO sector big time |
| Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) industry in India is expecting more business out of the recession hit USA economy, analyses Gartner. In normal circumstances too, India attracts lot of off shore business as it has many industry inherent advantages like English fluency, cheap labour & an endless headcount, reports Manorama Online
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| MS adds to the mess LIVE |
| Microsoft has begun testing "Live Mesh" program where it would be possible to access your web data be it on any tool connected to the net at that moment like computers, mobiles, iphones etc. reports HT
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| 300.50 million telephone users make India 2nd in the world |
| India becomes the second largest nation after China to have wireless & wireline telephones as a staggering 10.40 million subscribers were added in March '08, reports The Hindu
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| A sneak preview into Google's Dream? |
| Google employee might just have shown a sneak preview of 'Dream' Phone using Android technology, to the world a week before its expected launch in New York, reports TimesOnline
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| Technology is seriously changing our lingo |
| With technology playing a bigger and bigger role in our lives, it is seriously affecting the way we converse in our daily lives. None of the words youth of today speak are generally found in traditional dictionaries. Such is the new lingo, reports mint
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| NREGS online in Kerala |
| The monitoring of National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS) is soon planned to go online in one of Kerala districts once the broadband is in place. It will facilitate better monitoring and no corruption, reports Manorama Online
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| e-diagnosis facility coming in Gujarat villages |
| On the heels of 'e-gram' initiative, the government of Gujarat has planned e-diagnosis in all its villages under a rural scheme, reports BS
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| 6.1m mobile subscribers added in April '08 |
| GSM operators across the country have collectively added 6.1 million subscribers in the month of April '08. In March '08, 7.6 million subscribers were added, reports The Hindu
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| IT can diversify countrywide |
| Nasscom & AT Kearney has pinpointed 50 possible IT-BPO diversification centres countrywide where future IT development can take place. It will lead to creation of jobs everywhere effectively meaning less migration to metros, reports igovernment.in
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| 'Web in the palm in your hand' launched |
| Google has launched its much anticipated Android powered phone expected to take on smartphone like Apple's iPhone, RIM's Blackberry & Palm's Treo etc. in New York on Sep 24. Mobile web goes 2.0, reports TimesOnline
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| Indian Railways connects to VSAT |
| Soon you could book your train tickets from across 1000 locations as Indian Railways has commissioned VSAT hub, a satellite based system. With this, IR will be able to extend voice and data connectivity to remote stations, reports igovernment.in
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