Catching up on reading and writing… The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) has established 291 Village Resource Centres (VRCs) to provide integrated services, including tele-education, tele-medicine, natural resources information and skill development in rural India – digitalopportunity And from ET, Soon, Indians can buy over-the-counter (OTC) drugs from post offices. In order to increase the… Continue reading Village resource centres from ISRO
Category: Technology
Trying to keep track and make sense of new technology…
Caught in the web
Smart mobs has a link to some interesting research on our interaction with the internet – so, are you and the Internet a thing? A new poll shows that nearly 1 in 4 Americans say the Internet could be a stand-in for a significant other for a period of time. Among singles, the percentage was… Continue reading Caught in the web
Software for divorce now
Software to ease divorce pains, says this article on Smart Mobs – i read through it looking for signs of irony but no, this is serious. (The researchers’) divorce software is designed to handle negotiations. ‘Family Winner’ and ‘Family Mediator’ mix ‘artificial intelligence, game theory and an electronic or human external mediator to help divorcing… Continue reading Software for divorce now
Attack of the tech-savvy toddlers
Kids as young as 2 years old are downloading content to cell phones, computers, and portable digital music players according to a report from NPD Group – says this report on InformationWeek. Two year olds! I got my first mobile phone when I was 27; the study says, about 15% of 2- to 5-year-olds and… Continue reading Attack of the tech-savvy toddlers
Cheating, inspiration and all the rest
The media blog of LSE has an interesting link to a post by Alex Halavais – how to cheat good. They quote Halavais – When you copy things from the web into Word… don’t just ‘Edit > Paste’ it into your document. When I am reading a document in black, Times New Roman, 12pt, and… Continue reading Cheating, inspiration and all the rest
What to do next?
Papa kehte hain bada naam karega… Remember the uncertainty, the excitement, even the slight feeling of fear? I will make it big in life, but I don’t know how…? Here is a cool site for those wondering about what-to-do-next [link via adverblog] WhatAmIGonnaDoNext has this honest statement on its home page – there are many… Continue reading What to do next?
Make franshp if asl is right
Here is continuing right from where Sagnik left off in A friend when not in need…. Those samaritans who throng social (and business!) networking sites looking to “make friendship”. And then there are those who want 2 make franship. Or frndshp (depending on whether or not he is a txt msg addct) wid u. So… Continue reading Make franshp if asl is right
Mobile phones : does size matter?
Mobile phones. At first large and comfortable, brick-like. Then suddenly as in everything else, small was beautiful – mobile phones got smaller and slicker. And now, I find mobile phones, especially higher end versions becoming large again. People want to pay for a phone that looks ugly and is unwiedly to carry around – and… Continue reading Mobile phones : does size matter?
Is Sulekha really spamming?
So here is the thing that has been puzzling me (for the last five minutes, to be honest) – a portal called Sulekha has been sending emails to a lot of bloggers – whom they have decided are popular – asking if they would like their blog posts to be parallelly posted on Sulekha. Sure,… Continue reading Is Sulekha really spamming?
My phonographic eye!
A great post on NY Times on how language makes everything official – the minute there is a word for it, any action or attitude becomes universally recognised and acceptable. Overly Wired? There’s a Word for It Was there gridlock before there were automobiles? Was there jet lag before there were airplanes? Who was the… Continue reading My phonographic eye!