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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
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
Nokia targets 300M services users by 2011
News Finnish phone maker looking beyond selling devices and wants 300 million users on its devices pulling cloud data within two years, says its corporate strategy chief.
Tags: Mobile/Wireless, Data services, Mobile platforms, Facebook, Nokia Corp., London Business School, mobile, Broadband, chief development officer, device manufacturer
Microsoft licensing switch pleases Becta
News The U.K. government body that oversees schools' IT has welcomed Microsoft's interoperability intentions, but some members of the open source community say the software giant is trying to lock schools into licenses.
Tags: Software licensing, Microsoft Corp., School, Open Source, operating system, Interoperability, public sector, Microsoft Office 2007, volume-license, software
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...
Google acquires ReCaptcha as book-scanning aid
News Google's massive book-scanning project could produce more accurate results with ReCaptcha, a twist on the captcha-style log-in screens found on many Web sites.
Tags: Web 2.0, Web sites, Data Management, Scanner, Bot, computer science, font, Carnegie-Mellon University, CAPTCHA, blog
IT execs urged to take MBA path to CIO's chair
News Frameworks, concepts, strategic thinking and business vocabulary taught in MBA programs are useful en route to senior management post, says academic.
Tags: Personnel management, Communication skills, Certification, Business, Nanyang Technological University, Banking Industry, business management, e-mail, teamwork, professor
Google Apps bug: You've got (my) mail
News Brown University students and a few other Google Apps customers found other peoples' e-mail in their in-box due to glitch in migrating from old e-mail to Gmail.
Tags: Web 2.0, Web sites, Director Of Information Technology, Tool, Support Services, e-mail, spokesman, Google Apps, Google Gmail, Web 2.0
Corporate bank accounts targeted in online fraud
News Small and midsize businesses, governments, and school districts are targets of online bank fraud involving malicious e-mails, key loggers, and money mules, FBI says.
Tags: Authentication and encryption, Data security, Business security, Malware, Krebs, Security, bank, Authentication and encryption, Money, Web Browser
eBay ex-CEO to make Calif. gubernatorial bid official
News Former CEO of eBay is expected to officially declare her candidacy for governor of California on Tuesday.
Tags: Business Strategies & Functions, eBay Inc., Republican, Governor, Internet, Sen.
Green Dam enforcement watered down
News China's Web filtering efforts face more hurdles as school administrations and Internet cafes are without, or have uninstalled content sifting software.
Tags: Web 2.0, Web sites, Business applications, Government, Personal Computers, Computer, software, Business applications, Web sites, Web 2.0
Asia's tech shows still beneficial for vendors
News Despite economic climate, IT tradeshows and conferences remain viable as platform for vendors to reach out to audiences, say industry players.
Tags: Marketing, Branding, Asia, Conference, Singapore, Sales, Lenovo Group Ltd., e-mail, industry, brand
Code concepts: C#'s var keyword
Techguide Justin James explains in this overview, that var is used in variable declarations instead of a type, and also weighs differing opinions about what makes var useful.
Tags: Programming languages, Software engineering/development, Ruby, C#, Justin James, Microsoft Developer Network, Programming, blogging, Microsoft Visual Studio, PHP
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 ...
PayPal targets students, parents with debit cards
News New program lets parents keep track of their kids' expenses and act as the bank by funneling money into a monitored debit account.
Tags: Web sites, E-commerce, ATM, PayPal, MasterCard International, VP, debit card, bank, U.S., credit card
