The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) published the 2024 Global Education Monitoring Report: Gender report – Technology on her terms in France in 2024. The report examines the impact of technology on girls' education opportunities and future technological development. It highlights ICT's potential to overcome educational barriers …
New Delhi: Greater Kailash Part II and Bhikaji Cama Place are the choice for a pilot project under a proposal for a webbased parking solution to root out the mafia that rules the parking lots in the city. Connaught Place may also be taken up as a pilot project. Chief …
On January 4, websites of the Tunisian government were taken offline by a group, which calls itself Anonymous. It attacked sites perceived to be anti-WikiLeaks. On the same day, it targeted websites of the Zimbabwean government. According to BBC, it was in retaliation after president’s wife Grace Mugabe sued a …
Most of Turkmenistan is now without mobile phone communications and access to the Internet after the country’s biggest mobile service provider, MTSTurkmenistan, fell foul of the government. The Russian company that services 80 per cent of the subscribers in the Central Asian country informed its subscribers on December 28 that …
WHEN Mathew Inman is not busy with marketing via social networks, he works on his comic website, theoatmeal.com. It is a funny web comic with cartoons that contrasts the advantages and pitfalls of working at home and reveals the highs and lows of owning Apple products. The simplicity of Inman’s …
There is considerable international interest in exploiting the potential of digital solutions to enhance the quality and safety of health care. Implementations of transformative eHealth technologies are underway globally, often at very considerable cost. In order to assess the impact of eHealth solutions on the quality and safety of health …
The WikiLeaks revelations have made governments around the world nervous. After secret US cables released by WikiLeaks exposed American and European officials indulging in blackmail, threats and even espionage to advance their “climate” agenda, environment departments have gone jittery. The US government has offered “no comment” proclamations and strong condemnation …
It’s been mayhem and murder on the web with the US government and the McCarthy-like Senator Joe Lieberman, who chairs the Senate Homeland Security Committee, getting websites to pull the plug on WikiLeaks. Not all of what they did was sane or even legal. First, Lieberman, or the Obama administration …
EVER found an injured butterfly or caterpillar and wanted to help it but did not know how to? Turn to butterflywebsite.com. US butterfly expert Rick Mikula compiled a list of butterfly experts across the world who love butterflies and understand them. The site has several articles on butterflies and moths, …
“Today we made the world’s highest video call from Mount Everest base camp.” The statement by Pasi Koistinen, head of the telecom firm Ncell, could well become one of the landmark quotes in Internet history. On October 30, Koistinen’s firm, a joint venture between Nepali investors and Swedish telecom giant …
Amazon’s Kindle devices are selling in China because the e-reader allows users to log on to banned sites such as Twitter and Facebook, according to Hong Kong’s newspaper South China Morning Post. The device bypasses the Chinese government’s firewall, becoming popular on the grey market. Lawrence Yeung Kwan of the …
On October 1, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev tweeted, “Received the Civic Chamber’s appeal over the Pavlov Experimental Station. Gave the instruction for the issue to be scrutinised.” The president was responding to a Twitter campaign to save the world’s oldest seed bank. The fate of Pavlov Experimental Station appeared to …
The Western media often uses words like “secretive” and “iron curtain” for North Korea. On August 12, Pyongyang tried to change that image. It created a Twitter account, @uriminzok, meaning “our people”. It has over 4,500 followers. The move follows the launch of a North Korean YouTube channel, JucheKorea, in …
In recent times, critics have questioned the Internet's utility. The net Luddities range from those who berate it for being an emporium of pornography to those who question the worldwide web's all pervasive influence on modern life. Nicholas Carr is among those who raise significant questions while criticising the Internet. …
In a match that pitted video game players against a computer programme, the gamers outperformed the software in figuring out how 10 proteins fold into their three-dimensional configurations. Proteins are essentially biological nano-machines that carry out myriad functions in the body. The biologists have long sought to understand how the …
ALMOST all civilisations hold insects as an important element within their cultures. Scarab beetles were central religious artifacts within Egyptian culture. The Chinese viewed cicadas as a symbol of birth or immortality, the San of the Kalahari believe the praying mantis represents creation and patience, and the Greeks also created …
Amore-than-a-centuryold Brazilian daily has become the latest in the long line of newspapers that will only have an Internet edition. From September 1, Jornal do Brasil will discontinue its print edition, Nelson Ta nure, the owner of the 119-year-old newspaper, said on Wednesday. Published from Rio de Janeiro, the once-influential …
In recent times, the social networking site, Facebook, has been dogged by allegations of privacy violations. David Kirkpatrick’s The Facebook Effect does not take issues with these accusations. It is at its best in describing the genesis of the site. For most part the book is a celebratory account. In …
July 1, 2010 is very likely to be a landmark date in Internet history. On that day Finland became the first country to make broadband a legal right for every citizen. Every Finn will have the right to access to a 1Mbps (megabit per second) broadband connection. The country’s government …
