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23.11.2007 Moving money will soon be easier, cheaper and user-friendly, once mobile phone money transfer becomes operational. Over 200 million mobile subscribers in India will be among the first beneficiaries of this facility.

23.11.2007 A new manual released by United Nations Conference on Trade and Development is a handy tool in data collection and analysis and to keep oneself abreast of international trade standards and definitions. The manual provides useful advice on how to tackle statistical challenges and help improve national competitiveness of developing countries in international trade.

22.11.2007 In an innovative way to address several issues plaguing higher education, the lecture videos and course material of the seven prestigious Indian Institutes of Technology and the Banglore-based Indian Institute of Science will soon be made available online to the students and faculty members.

21.11.2007 Named Kindle, Amazon’s electronic book device, can hold as many as 200 titles from the list of best-sellers. Not bigger than a paperback novel and lighter, the device is wireless, allowing the books to be downloaded without plugging the reader into a computer.

20.11.2007 There was a convergence of the needs of developing and developed countries to reduce the digital divide. This was the main success of the recently concluded World Radiocommunication Conference held at Geneva.

20.11.2007 In 2008, the Kenya Information and Communication Technology Board will train some 1,500 entrepreneurs from digital villages incurring a total cost of US$ 2 million. Kenya’s digital village project was launched with the aim to set up ICT centres throughout the country.

17.11.2007 Australia’s mobile networks such as Telstra, Optus, Hutchison and Vodafone, are stifling innovation by restricting access to multimedia content. If you want to watch programme of your choice you need four phones, or at least four SIM cards, which you have to keep swapping.