Computer Education
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Indian state gives all schools IT access
News Most populous Southern Indian state, Andhra Pradesh, is the country's first to provide ICT education to all its 1.8 million school-going children.
Tags: Personal Computers, Virtualization, IT training, School, India, Computer Education, Computer, Government, phone, software
Oracle to train HK students
News Hong Kong schools will get a taste of Oracle's Internet Academy.
Education takes off in rural India, helped by PCs
News Computer-assisted education is helping to draw village children back into school, and going a long way toward improving India's literacy rate of 65 percent.
Tags: Local Government, Regulations, IT training, Children, School, India, Computer-aided Learning, Education, Internet Connection, Computer
Explosive growth seen in Indian IT services market
News A Gartner Group survey says India's information technology (IT) services market will grow by 45 per cent per year over the next four years, exploding to US$25 billion by 2004.
Internet literacy campaign to promote Internet use
News The first national initiative to increase the number of Internet users in Malaysia, National Internet Literacy Campaign, will be launched next month.
Microsoft licences too expensive, say U.K. schools
News Schools do not get good value for money from current Microsoft licensing agreements, IT professionals in the U.K. education sector claimed last week.
Tags: Software licensing, Budgeting/cost control
Intel: No plans to sell Classmate PC in Philippines
News Low-cost portable PC won't be commercially available but negotiations are ongoing with PC makers keen to produce similar devices, say Intel execs.
Tags: Notebooks and tablets, Development/design
Dell nurtures a virtual life for youngsters
News Dell unveils Nickelodeon-edition netbook, which may represent change in way next generation develops its social and decision-making skills.
Tags: Web 2.0, Children, Animation, social networking, food, virtual world, decision-making, network, Dell Computer Corp., Netbook
Fixing a busted IT research system
Insight newsmaker Professor James Foley says major trouble stalks the US technology education pipeline.
Tags: IT training
Apple joins critics of Microsoft deal
News The company joins a chorus of critics attacking a proposed settlement that would let Microsoft give schools up to US$1 billion in free software, training and services.
Horns locked over Microsoft-school deal
News Lawyers representing more than 100 civil cases pending against Microsoft defended the legitimacy of a controversial settlement in federal court Tuesday.
AMD, China new schoolmates
News The chipmaker sign a joint venture with the China Basic Education Software Company to develop three new kinds of computers for the country's education market.
U.K.'s Elonex readies low-cost Linux laptop
News Aimed at the education sector, the laptop will feature, among other things, a flash-based hard drive and a "wireless music server". But, the company says, it's "not really about the specs".
Tags: Notebooks and tablets, Linux
Rural India's rough road to computer literacy
News The first problem to solve in bringing computing to the world's poor involves delivering the electricity.
Tags: Personal Computers
Apple: AirPort wireless will take off
News In an indication that consumers want faster wireless networking, Apple Computer sold 150,000 AirPort Extreme base stations during the first quarter.
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