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31.03.2006 A key component of e-governance is to provide governments with a citizen-friendly face.

31.03.2006 Effat College ended a two-day symposium yesterday on the subject of utilizing information and communication technologies in a teaching environment.

31.03.2006 key component of e-governance is to provide governments with a citizen-friendly face. Naturally, G2C (government-to-citizens) is an important element of all e-governance projects.e-Seva is, perhaps, the best example and one of the earliest attempts to take the benefits of e-governance to citizens.

30.03.2006 India has sent the maximum number of entries at the Stockholm Challenge 2006 competition that honours innovative ways of using Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) to improve people's lives.

30.03.2006 Health service providers are getting hyperactive windows from the blessing of cybernetic connection. Newly developed computer based gadgets are best companion for doctors along with their traditional equipment like stethoscope and thermometer in many countries.

30.03.2006 The Head of Microsoft's Rural Computing, Mr Tarun Malik, said Softrack would be part of the company's IT initiative — SAKSHAM (self-sustaining), under which the company plans to roll out 50,000 kiosks over the next three years.

30.03.2006 In a bid to take computers to the rural communities in India, global chip major Intel unveiled a new Ruggedised Personal Computer platform designed to withstand adverse weather conditions including heat, dust and humidity and run on alternate power sources, including the car battery.

29.03.2006 Contrary to popular perception, information technology has a far greater impact in rural areas than urban centres. A recent survey of 37 e-governance projects, spread across 11 states accorded an overall rating of 8.67 to rural e-governance projects against 8.03 to urban projects

29.03.2006 Despite all the hullabaloo about India's prowess in IT and sky-rocketing telecom subscriptions, the country still figured at the bottom rung (rank 40) in the World Economic Forum's Global Information Technology Report 2005-2006.

29.03.2006 Despite all the hullabaloo about India's prowess in IT and sky-rocketing telecom subscriptions, the country still figured at the bottom rung (rank 40) in the World Economic Forum's Global Information Technology Report 2005-2006. US topped the list, followed by Singapore, Denmark and Iceland at second third and fourth positions, respectively, in the report released.

29.03.2006 Healthcare is an information intensive industry. Being an information-based industry, it can benefit from IT more than perhaps any other industry.

29.03.2006 VSNL and Sify will run the RailTel express cybercafes to be set up at 82 railway stations in the current year.

29.03.2006 Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd (BSNL) has decided to move the Telecom Disputes Settlement and Appellate Tribunal (TDSAT) against the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India’s (Trai) order reducing its share of access deficit charges (ADC) by 33% this fiscal.

28.03.2006 Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd, a public sector Indian telecom company, is indeed going where no other telecom operator has gone before. In a bid to lay a cellular network covering the entire population in the country, the state-owned company is leaving no stone unturned.

27.03.2006 GKP is offering a limited number of fellowships for journalists from South Asian countries to attend the GKP International Forum 2006, which is being held at
Colombo, Sri Lanka, on 8-9 May 2006. The last date to apply for a fellowship is March 27, 2006.

24.03.2006 Vice Chairman of the Council of Ministers Dr. Tulsi Giri said Thursday that the establishment of High Level Commission for IT (HLCIT) indicates the government's commitment to the development of ICT in Nepal and HLCIT would be the main engine to energize growth in this sector.

24.03.2006 Last week HP India unveiled a revolutionary pen-based technology that allows the (Indian language) Kannada script to be recorded and stored directly on a computer.

24.03.2006 TRAI had been receiving complaints on billing related matters. These complaints cover areas such as inability to verify the bills, not having clarity about the tariff scheme on which they are being billed, delay in refund, non-adjustment of credits in the bills, etc.

23.03.2006 Imagine indigenous technology in the form of microprocessor devices coming to the rescue of Indian Railways in averting major train collisions, thus saving precious human life and ensuring safety.

23.03.2006 China has shut down an unspecified number of domestic porn and illegal websites in its latest crackdown on Internet porn and piracy, state media reported today.