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IITians Develop Classroom Friendly Tablet: A Challenge To Aakash?

by | posted: December 30, 2011
IIT Delhi student Rohit Pande’s Classteacher Learning Systems will bring out a new user-friendly & classroom suitable tablet to the market on January 1. Christened Classpad, the tablet will be available...
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Technology-Enabled Learning Should Be The Future Of Indian Education

by | posted: December 31, 2010
Old is Gold. Will the adage still hold for the new age education model where technology is quickly replacing the old and famous blackboards? Of course not, if we go by what Everonn Education, a leading...
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MHRD Partners With HCL To Rollout 35$ Laptops

by | posted: September 3, 2010
HCL Technologies Ltd will help MHRD manufacture 100000 35$ laptops and roll them out to students. The Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Rajasthan will carry out intensive laboratory and field tests...
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BCG Reports 237 Million Internet Users In India By 2015 – Possible?

by | posted: September 2, 2010
India’s population and the number of mobile phone connections in the country seem to be growing at similar rate. Ok maybe, just maybe, the mobile revolution is growing much faster. A recent report...
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Intel And Nokia Joint Innovation Center – To Increase Mobile Capabilities

by | posted: August 25, 2010
Mobile devices have made an impact not just in India, but all around the world. Phones have been a device that are used for pretty much everything these days. Not only can you check your emails or surf...
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WWW: WAT Weekly WrapUp 1st August– 8th August 2010

by | posted: August 9, 2010
This week saw Blackberry’s struggle in the country extended to numerous other countries, causing the makers of Blackberry to take quick steps to ensure service in all countries.  In news closer...
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Mobile Web For All – IBM and IIT Combine For Research

by | posted: August 5, 2010
For some time now, we have been talking about how mobile phones are going to be an influencing factor in India’s digital revolution. So much as, that 3G is set to penetrate rural India by 2012. All...
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IIT’s To Take 600 Courses Online By 2011!

by | posted: October 9, 2009
Everything seems to be happening online these days, from marking love berths to saving a whole community. Recently in news, Indian Institutes of Technology (IIT) and Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore,...
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IIITians Working on Open Source Language Translation Tools

by | posted: March 25, 2009
Come June 2009 and Sampark an open source web based translation tool would be launched. The beta version of this tool allows users to get their documents translated to Hindi from seven Indian languages...
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Budget Roundups – What Matters for the World of Technology

by | posted: February 29, 2008
1st things 1st – 3 New IIT’s are being proposed (in Bihar, Rajasthan, and Andhra) and so are 16 central universities. A boost for India’s IT Human Capital Development. 300 new ITI‘s...
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Events Review : E-Summit at IIT-Bombay – Keynote speech by S. Ramadorai, CEO, TCS

by | posted: February 11, 2008
The IIT-Bombay campus on Sunday was a hub of activities as hundreds of delegates descended to attend the E-Summit, organized by IIT-Powai. Organized by the E-Cell, was an event to discuss the different...
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Events Update : IIT E-Summit 2008, Techhare India 2008 and Open Source Madurai 2008

by | posted: February 5, 2008
IIT E-Summit 2008 ( 10-feb-2008, IIT-Bombay) The Entrepreneurship Summit is a one-day event , supposed to take place in IIT-Bombay on 10-Feb-2008.Themed around “Changing entrepreneurial ecosystem...
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YouTube Videos Now On 3G Cell Phones

by | posted: January 25, 2008
  In one of my recent posts I had discussed about the IIT classes now on YouTube. This service could only be accessed through a laptop or your PC’s. YouTube videos can now be accessed on your mobile...
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Entrance Tests And IIT Lectures Goes Online

by | posted: January 24, 2008
  In my earlier posts I have discussed about the virtual school that has been started between India and UK. This step showed that the educational system in India is planning to improve. With this...
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India-UK get a Virtual Graduate School

by | posted: December 4, 2007
British Telecom (BT) is leading a consortium of 22 industry and academic partners such as Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) to launch India-UK Advanced Technology Center (IU-ATC). IU-ATC is the first...
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