Showing posts with label News. Show all posts
Showing posts with label News. Show all posts

Thursday, April 26, 2007

News That Matter

  • C-DAC [The institution that launched India into Supercomputing age] launched Pragati a Hindi web browser, which is based on Firefox. This is important, since there is much to be done in Indian languages computing, before Indian masses can interact with PC's and web in their local languages [via Quick Online Tips].

  • Economic Times reports that India may offer free broad band services to her people at 2 mbps, within next 2 years. The cost will be a fraction of Universal Services Obligation Fund (USOF). USOF is created out of annual deposit of 5 % of revenues of each cellular operator in India. It was supposed to be used for bridging the telecom devide that exists between urban and rural India. Incidentally, currently USOF burgeons at 9194.12 crore.

  • AOL has launched its Indian version - AOL.in, which currently looks quite a basic portal.

Thursday, March 1, 2007

From Shanghai, Tremors Heard Around the World

To many investors and analysts, the massive sell-off Tuesday was just the latest indication that share prices in China have been defying expectations.

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