Full coverage: South Asia

31.08.2007 Professor at IIT Delhi's computer science and engineering department is designing an information sharing model to integrate the verification process of government departments.

31.08.2007 In a major relief to mobile operators, the Telecom Disputes Settlement & Appellate Tribunal (TDSAT) has excluded many revenue streams, including income from the sale of mobile handsets on a standalone basis, while calculating annual gross revenue (AGR).

30.08.2007 An Indian origin scientist at Purdue University has demonstrated a new technology to dramatically improve computer chip cooling.
The technology uses tiny "ionic wind engines" to increase the "heat-transfer coefficient," or the cooling rate, in chips by as much as 250 percent.

30.08.2007 The government of an Indian state, Rajasthan has started putting in place a plan to make Jaipur a WiFi city by providing wireless Internet access throughout the city, as was announced by the Chief Minister in the budget speech earlier this year.

30.08.2007 e-Krishi centre in an Indian state of Kerala is making people of Malappuram district more happy in Onam festival by offering them cheap goods than any other place.

29.08.2007 One of the largest providers of business application software, SAP AG a German software firm, has doubled the number of customers in India to 2,000 in the past year and reaffirmed plans to invest $1 billion in the country to boost growth.

27.08.2007 The Intel Foundation partnered with the Digital Empowerment Foundation, a New Delhi-based non-governmental organisation has granted a donation of US 60,000 (Rs.25 lakh) towards women's education and empowerment in India.

24.08.2007 Asia Pacific survey, on mobile banking opportunities, has come up with a report titled, ‘Mobile Opportunities for the Financial Sector’. The survey which was conducted in five countries found that one of every three Indians with a bank account is ready to switch to another bank, offering free mobile banking. Indian users are found more aware of mobile banking than those in other countries.

24.08.2007 NOKIA says India has become one of the largest markets and overtook the United States in the second quarter to become its second-biggest market by sales after China.

24.08.2007 The Indian government is set to establish a trail of all foreign exchange transactions, including electronic transfers through various intermediaries by NRIs in the Gulf and America.

23.08.2007 IBM India Research Laboratory has developed a IBM Desktop Hindi Speech Recognition technology, which can be used to integrate the speaker independent continuous speech recognition of Hindi to edit the translated text. The speech recognition technology eliminates the need to learn different keyboard mapping.

23.08.2007 The President of Bangladesh has launched on-line Electronic University U21 Global, which compiles 19 world leading universities to provide on-line education and training to the students, academicians and researchers.

22.08.2007 The Spices Board of India is going to launch electronic auction (e-auction) to ensure transparency in commodity trading. The new initiative will provide proper and error-free documentation, facilitating speedy billing and invoicing to eliminate the chances of hidden costs for the benefit of small growers.

22.08.2007 Greenpeacen aktivistit vaativat Intian tietoliikenneministeriöltä lakia säätelemään maahan tuotavan atk-jätteen käsittelyä. Greenpeacen mukaan jopa Kiinan lainsäädäntö on Intiaa edellä.

22.08.2007 A joint venture between E-Procurement Technologies Pvt. Ltd and Wijeya Newspapers Limited (WNL) is resulted in the launch of first electronic tender portal which will provide to access government and online tenders online in Sri-Lanka.

22.08.2007 An NGO in the South Indian state of Chennai has set up an Internet centre for visually challenged people to use cyber space for free. This is the only centre in the country, where visual challenged people can walk and brows.

21.08.2007 Greenpeace activists demand a law to govern e-waste management in the country and presented a reportin the Ministry of Information Technology, India, on ‘Extended Producer Responsibility in a non-OECD context’ which can be used as a basis for legislation to tackle the growing problem of e-waste .

20.08.2007 The former President of India, APJ Abdul Kalam has inaugurated the web-based telemedicine link which is believed to eliminate healthcare disparities in the country, at the IIT campus of Hyderabad with the cooperation of University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, US.

17.08.2007 The government of the south Indian state of Karnataka will assist communities in setting up 12 community radio stations to empower rural people.

17.08.2007 Nepal has developed simple and cheap technologies that make the best of local resources and don't damage the environment. The new technologies have been indigenously designed, based on traditional skills and knowledge, and are cheap and easy to use and maintain.