Internet

18.01.2005

17.01.2005 In an effort to achieve faster Internet access, India’s government run telecom firms launched broadband in six cities on Friday,14th January, 2005. With this, they plan to achieve the target of 500,000 broadband users by December 2005.

12.01.2005 The Matara Community Multimedia Centre, in the heart of Sri Lanka’s disaster zone, is broadcasting over 250 missing persons messages a day on its station, the Southern Regional Station of the Sri Lanka Broadcasting Corporation, while its telecentre has been mobilised by those handling the crisis.

07.01.2005 India got the '.in' domain name which will help the nation keep the net traffic to itself and would also give its national entities recognition in the virtual world.

07.01.2005 The privately-owned newspaper The Post in Zambia is taking significant steps to make technological advances. The most recent measure towards improvement is not only for the publication itself but for the entire nation. The latest stage in this major project launched two years ago, is to implement a nationwide Internet Service Provider (ISP) project.

05.01.2005 India government's Department of Information Technology (DIT) is set to formulating policy guidelines and a framework to establish ICT-enabled information and service kiosks in the villages.