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13.08.2007 The All-India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) of India is moving one step forward by becoming paperless institute. The program aims to provide information and records of patients anywhere and anytime.

13.08.2007 The Abel T Motshoane School in Mabopane, North of Pretoria in South Africa has become the first in the country to have a wireless network technology by implementing mobile e-Learning infrastructure and teaching skills in the school.

09.08.2007 The United Kingdom government plans to spend £1.2 billion on its e-Borders program over the next decade, as the electronic passenger-screening system is fully implemented. The e-Borders program aims to inspect the names of the passengers which arise suspicion.

09.08.2007 As part of the new “Knowledge Communities” project, UNESCO Bangkok launched an online ICT-in-Education community: an interactive forum which welcomes educators, teachers, administrators and policy makers and others to share their ideas and opinions on topics relating to the use of ICT in education.

09.08.2007 The managing director of Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC), Mark Scott, has said that the commercial advertising on ABC websites has been ruled out as long as government funding is maintained.

09.08.2007 The IT mission of South Indian state, Kerala, with Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (CDAC) has launched a web portal to check cyber crimes in India. The portal will help in checking cyber related crimes like hacking, phishing, fake websites and e-mail ID and password thefts.

09.08.2007 Intel Corp. ties up with three Indian PC vendors, including HCL Infosystems Ltd., Wipro Ltd., and Zenith Computers Ltd to assemble the Classmate PC. The company will start shipping the product to Indian schools in September, 2007 which will be sold only to schools and not through retail channels to consumers.