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 …
>> The Bihar government will set up a community radio station, the first for farmers in the state. Decks have been cleared for setting up the community radio station following clearance by the central government and approval of funding for it. Bihar
SAN FRANCISCO: Google has begun scanning microfilm from some newspapers' historical archives to make them searchable online, first through Google News and eventually on the newspapers' own Web sites, the company said. The new program announced Monday expands a two-year-old service that allows Google News users to search the archives …
Some women in countries where abortion is restricted are using the Internet to buy medication enabling them to abort a pregnancy at home, according to a bbc report. The report says that women in more than 70 countries where abortion is illegal have used the services of the website www.womenonweb.org. …
>> The video-sharing site YouTube will be allowed to mask the identities of individual users when it provides viewership records to the media giant Viacom and other copyright holders after a US court directed it to submit its database to Viacom. >> Soft drinks giant Coca-Cola has come under pressure …
www.echoinggreen.com With climate change and global warming looming large on us, green business is the new buzzword. This site would be useful for those who intend to go along this trend. Run by an US organization, also called Echoing Green, the site says
With oil prices going through the roof, the frenzy around biodiesels has intensified. The us Biofuels Exchange Inc. (usbe) has thrown in its bit in the kafuffle. It has launched an internet biofuels platform which links biofuel producers with buyers. The platform works very similar to the emarketing portal, eBay; …
NEW DELHI: Intel Corporation on Tuesday unveiled Intel Centrino 2 Processor Technology products for laptops, powered by five new Intel Core2 Duo processors. Close to 250 innovative consumer and business notebook PC designs are on the way, including those equipped with the right combination of powerful processors, graphics and battery …
The virtual world of secondlife.com is serious business. Last month steel tycoon Lakshmi Mittal, ceo of ArcelorMittal, held a regular shareholders" meeting in Luxembourg and linked it with the digital continent. The meeting was held to give shareholders an opportunity to meet and talk to Mittal. Avatars in secondlife could …
>> Now the people of China can directly interact with their president without going through the trouble and complex procedure to meet him. Chinese President Hu Jintao has made himself available online to chat with citizens through a major news portal of the Communist Party of China (CPC). The tech …
www.radicalcartography.net/nuclear_full.png North Korea was at the receiving end of global condemnation after it announced that it carried out its first underground atomic weapons test in 2006. The US, Japan, China and Britain were the first to criticise and demanded action by the United Nations Security Council. Barring Japan, all these …
The potential impact of climate change over the next century has now been mapped. An animated map of the earth from space illustrating the impacts can be viewed on your computer. The map is part of the project, Climate Change in Our World
Sina.com, one of the most popular online destinations in China, has launched an English-language website to meet the global demand for news about the recent earthquake in the country. The news website, which already claims around 800 million views per day, intends to offer "comprehensive coverage of current events,' a …
>> The Spanish police have arrested five hackers they describe as being among the most active on the Internet. The hackers, who include two 16-year-olds, are accused of disrupting government websites in the US, Asia and Latin America. Police say they co-ordinated attacks over the Internet and hacked into 21,000 …
