Android tablet @ Rs. 4000 from Wishtel

Wishtel, an IT product maker, has launched two tablets costing between Rs 4,000 and Rs 5,500. The company has already […]

TRAI emphasises on promotion of rural e-applications

Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) proposed in its response to the draft National Telecom Policy, that entities developing e-applications, […]

Speech to SMS technology to be developed by IIIT

Hyderabad based International Institute of Information Technology (IIIT) will develop a mobile technology that would accept speech as input and […]

AADHAAR:The Unique Identity

[This article was published in the May 2010 issue of the eGov Magazine (http://www.egovonline.net) ]

The Unique Identification (UID) project, headed by Shri Nandan Nilekani, has been renamed

DIT to Soon Make Software That can Read All Indian Languages

Jainder Singh, Secretary, Department of Information Technology (DIT) inaugurating a conference on ‘Common Service Centres: The Change Agents’ recently said that by the end of September this year, the Department of Information Technology (DIT) will have readied software tools and fonts which can help personal computers (PCs) and websites decipher content in the country

Computing Solutions in 12 Indian languages

Microsoft company showcased for the first time its beta version of Windows 7 in Hindi, a step aimed towards enabling Indian users to compute using various Indian languages. The company launched its Language Interface Packs (LIPs) in twelve Indian languages for use in the Windows environment and Microsoft Office.

Revolutionising The Process

[This article was published in the October 2004 issue of the eGov Magazine (http://www.egovonline.net) ]

The Free/GNU platform was making strides on software front in many ways but a little slowly on Indian languages. But this slowness was steadily towards universal standards and hence almost deliberate.