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Story of Katepola, Sri Lanka
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The UK Biobank project is huge in size, vision and potential.
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While last numbers of colleges Universities and business organisations around the world are adopting e-learning for learners, the website accessibility is becoming of critical importance.
Asian Conference on the Digital Commons and iCommons iSummit 2006
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Singapore spurs e-Payment
A new national standard has been launched to facilitate interoperable electronic payment in the Singapore, and spur the use of paperless payment.
ICT to strengthen India
The Technology Sabha 06, organised by the Indian Express Group at Goa, brought into focus the various e-Governance initiatives undertaken by the central and state governments and the industry
Delhi traffic police to go tech-savvy with simputers
Delhi traffic policemen are getting tech-savvy soon with the introduction of the simputers in the city. Delhi traffic police is planning to purchase simputers, which is very useful for the field transactions by the traffic police officers for challans and other services related with smart card based driving license and vehicle registration certificate.
40th niche for India in global ICT index
India, being the fastest growing cellular market, has slipped one position to 40th rank in the global Network Readiness Index for 2005-06, according the report published by World Economic Forum (WEF). India was ranked 39th in last year’s report.
CDMA mobile to hit Indian market
Qualcomm CEO, Paul Jacobs, in his visit to India said that the company would aim to make CDMA mobile services more affordable in India by encouraging local manufacture of handsets, and not through a reduction in royalty rates.
Low-cost rural ATM with biometric sensor in India
Grammteller, a low-cost ATM machine, developed by the Telecommunications Network (TeNet) Group of IIT, Chennai is being tested in the metropolis at two places. The kiosk
