Education
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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
Innovation, education key to India's growth
News India must "evolve the right ecosystem" to unleash its potential as an innovation technology hub, says delegate at EmTech 2009 conference.
Tags: Innovation, Local Government, R&D, Battery, Hewlett-Packard Co., Technology, India, Innovation, Technology Review, Education
Wikimedia receives US$500,000 from Hewlett Foundation
News Nonprofit organization that operates Wikipedia plans to use grant to improve user-friendliness of Wikimedia's software, among other things.
Tags: Web 2.0, Web sites, Training, nonprofit organization, Wikipedia, Wikimedia, San Francisco, director, Web 2.0, executive director
Why don't we want to pay our teachers more?
Blogs In March 2007, I got the opportunity to visit the Indian Institute of Technology in Mumbai. It was interesting to visit ...
Open education child's best cyber defense
Blogs I have a soon-to-be six-year-old Jack Russell Terrier that has a habit of barking at almost every dog we paw past during...
Why Obama can't ignore education tech
News Not only is it a proven way to generate significant economic benefits, the cost would be only a few drops in the bucket of U.S. president-elect Barack Obama's stimulus plan.
Tags: Web sites, Personal broadband, Technology, Investment, Workforce, Tool, Education, Broadband, Britain, Internet Connection
Microsoft creates education czar post
News Software company chooses Michael Golden to head up its Education Products group, reporting to Anoop Gupta and overseeing the group's strategy and marketing efforts.
Tags: Microsoft Corp., Education, software company, Strategic Planning, product development, software, Redmond, marketing, blog, vice president
OLPC faces 'vicious' rivalry in laptop market
News news analysis One Laptop Per Child exec David Cavallo says the organization welcomes new entrants to the low-cost laptop market, but describes the response of some competitors as "unfortunate".
Tags: Notebooks and tablets, Kid, One Laptop Per Child Project, Education, developing country, Silicon.com, Laptop Computer, career, laptop company, network
The lowdown on India's Web 2.0 generation
Blogs India's demographics (50 percent of India's population is below the age of 25 years) has been perceived as both a boon a...
Hire security pros based on reasoning and aptitude
Techguide In-house education--not resume bullet points--is the key to having the best possible employees.
Tags: Security Management, HR policies and procedures, Recruiting, Cookie, Bullet Point, Security, Human Resources Inc., job, Training, IP
Creative is latest to tackle e-book readers
News Maker of Zen MP3 players is said to be readying an e-book reader, tentatively named the MediaBook, that will harness videos, pictures, text, and services for a "media-rich experience".
Tags: Consumer Technology, Handhelds, Peripherals, Zen, e-reader, Creative, Amazon.com Inc., Bridgestone Corp., E-book Reader, Video
Corporate BlackBerrys to get Google Apps syncing
News If you've got a company-issued BlackBerry and your company subscribes to Google Apps, you could soon receive push e-mail and find global contacts on your phone.
Tags: Business applications, Mobile applications, Mobile platforms, BlackBerry, RIM BlackBerry, Archiving, Server, RIM Blackberry Enterprise Server, enterprise server, Google Apps
Google switches on Apps Script
News Enterprise users of Google's Web-based office productivity suite can now add customized scripts to automate various business processes.
Tags: Web browsers, Enterprise Search, Tool, Web Service, Google Search, finance, Google Apps, spreadsheet, team, Web browsers
Check Point looks to 'consolidation'
Insight newsmaker CEO Gil Shwed, dubbed "Bill Gates of Israel", explains why being "complicated" is good for security industry and how Check Point tools are going broad.
Tags: Enterprise risk management, Firewalls, IDS (Intrusion Detection Systems), Security, software, U.S., Information Technology, network, Asia, Singapore
Google announces Project 10^100 themes
News More than 150,000 ideas were submitted following Google's call for world-changing ideas, and the company has finally identified 16 categories of ideas for further voting.
Tags: Web sites, Web 2.0, Business Strategies & Functions, Idea, public sector, strategy, sustainability, spokesman, RFP, analysis
