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| Major rural internet initiative by Bangladesh |
| Bangladesh has embarked upon a major internet boost foray for its rural population. In this scheme, internet access has been made free in all the state run primary schools. Besides, broadband rates have been slashed by 60%, reports ET
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| BSNL to expand its network in NE |
| State run telecom operator, BSNL has planned a massive expansion in the North-Eastern states soon. About 2 lakh lines will be added, reports DNA
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| Modern computer is 60-year old |
| The world's first modern computer was built on June 21 '1948, so by now our inseparable gadget is 60 years old now. When it was unveiled it had a 32 word RAM & 1.2 millisecond per instruction compared to today's 360 trillion operations per second of IBM's fastest supercomputer, reports Manorama Online
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| Rural centric empowering portal launched |
| A multi-lingual portal aimed at making rural life better by empowering them with information communication technologies has been opened by the President, reports iGovernment
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| World's oldest blogger passes away in Aus |
| An Australian woman, Olive Riley, perhaps the world's oldest blogger at 108-year-old has died. She bid adieu to this world singing happy songs and thanking her internet friends, reports IBNLive
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| Free game downloads from Yahoo by year end |
| Yahoo Inc has planned to offer free downloads of casual online games for its users by the end of this year (2008). The in-game advertising will take care of the involved cost, Yahoo believes, reports TOI
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| No of PCs, Internet connections shows good growth |
| The overall PC growth in India including Notebooks showed an upward trend in the fiscal 2007-08 as it grew to 7.34 million units up by a healthy 16% same as last year. The notebook consumption grew by a whopping 114% as no of internet connection also grew to 7.2 million subscriptions (March 08), reports The Hindu (July 9 '08)
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| NDTV Convergence heralds Mobile 2.0 |
| NDTV Convergence, the digital arm of the NDTV, has introduced Mi (My Mobile Internet) SMS service in India in partnership with July Systems. It enables mobile users connect to the internet through a simple SMS, reports NDTV
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| July is cellphone etiquette month in US |
| Tired of ringing cell phones almost all the time,
in the US all the subscribers are in favour of holding July as a 'cellphone
etiquette month' akin to say no tobacco day, a video report in CNN
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| Rojgar Samachar online NOW |
| The popular Rojgar Samachar (hindi version of the Employment News) has gone online. It will cater to the job aspirations as well as news about new avenues for employment and give real time help, reports iGovernment
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| First e-Passports distributed |
| India has become one of the few developing countries to have adopted e-passports as the fist few such electronic passports were distributed to the President, Vice-President, & PM. 800 000 e-passports are to be distributed by 2010, reports Manorama Online
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| No of SMSes decrease while calls shoot |
| With the sharp fall in call rates, number of people making calls from their mobiles has increased while those who use texts to convey the message show a downward turn, reports TOI
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| Internet suffixes to go local |
| Common internet addresses like .com, .org or .gov might give way in near future to more localised suffixes like .ibm, .berlin .ebay for example. All this will cost a cool 1 Lac to 5 Lac US$ per domain name, reports Manorama Online
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| 27% more online Indians than 2007 |
| Amidst 14% increase for Asia Pacific region as a whole compared to the year gone by, 'Indians Online' grew fastest by 27%. Now 28 million users are logging on in India, reports Manorama Online
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| Beware! Ads are recording your reactions |
| New age advertising is not satisfied by being static staring at you from billboards, the latest ones have started recording your reactions/interest in them. Welcome to digital ad age, reports TimesOnline
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| ICICI Prudential Insurance goes LIVE 24x7 |
| ICICI Prudential Life has adopted online technology in a big way and started a web chat service to enable customers avail a lot of services instantly on a 24x7 basis, reports The Hindu
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| Unique AIDS initiative by villagers in Orissa |
| Sibatala villagers in Bolangir district in eastern Indian state of Orissa created a history of sorts when they volunteered to get themselves tested for AIDS recently, reports CNN IBN
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| Bangalore traffic goes net savvy LIVE |
| IT city of India Bangalore is using internet/mobiles to manage the city's legendary chaotic traffic. About 60 cameras have been put up to gather all the information in a centralised monitoring room. Mobile services are being used to disseminate the information LIVE to commuters, reports CNN IBN
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| Sony to beam film directly into TV sets |
| Premier hardware and entertainment makers Sony has decided to relay new content of entertainment like Hollywood films directly to its latest TV sets even before they are released on DVD, reports TimesOnline
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| SRFTI Kolkata starts CRS |
| Satyajit Ray Film & Television Institute (SRFTI) has started a community radio station 'SRFTI 90.4 FM' in Kolkata catering to farmers, fishermen & upmarket residents alike along the 10 km stretch from Ruby Hospital to Kamalgazi in east Kolkata, reports digital opportunity channel
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| No IP addresses left in 1273 days? |
| In exactly 1273 days from now, there may be no IP addresses left as the web fraternity grapples with this unique problem which is somewhat unforseen when in 1981 in IPv4, four billion addresses were allowed, reports Manorama Online
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| e-Passport checks in |
| In a bid to minimise paper passport misuses and keep a tab on its citizens, the GoI is going to introduce e-passports in a phased manner after a successful trial run, reports igovernment.in
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| IGNOU course material on net |
| Now giving a huge boost to open learning, IGNOU course material including video based content (80% as of now) has been made available on the internet. The address is www.egyankosh.ac.in, reports The Hindu
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| Educomp Solutions buys stake in Learning.com |
| Educomp Solutions has acquired a 51% majority stake
in Learning.com, a US based portal for $24.5 million. This acquisition further
enhances Educomp's presence in learning zone, reports BS
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| e-ticketing wait is over |
| Now one can book one's railway reservation ticket even if it is showing waitlisted. W.e.f. May 10 '08 e-ticketing website (www.irtc.co.in) has made it possible relieving many of the queue, reports igovernment.in
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| 49 million Indians logging on now |
| As many as 49 million Indians went online in 2008. This means 12% of urban India (one in 10) is connected, while in rural areas this figure is 4.5%. All this and much more came through in a survey, reports ET
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| Rural e-conection via satellite in Gujarat |
| All of Gujarat's 13,693 gram panchayats are to connect via a satellite by July this year to enable video, voice and data offerings in a plethora of public service utilities among them, reports mint
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| Meow FM goes online |
| Meow 104.8 FM, India's first Just for Women radio station, has started broadcasting some of its popular programs online. The move will facilitate local programming to be listened to by a broader audience. w.e.f. 15th May '08, one of the popular programs 'Between the Sheets' went online.
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| Airtel first to start operations in Lakshdweep |
| Leading private telecom operator Bharti Airtel has become the first player to start operations in the islands of UT of Lakshdweep. The inauguration was done by administrator & Manthan Awardee Mr, B.V. Selvaraj, reports The Hindu
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| Mobiles score over money in preference |
| In a survey in the USA, it has been found out that
given a choice to select one thing workers wouldn't like to leave home
without, they chose their mobile phones even before their wallets, reports
TOI
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