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Assocham and ISPAI oppose IT Act 2005 amendments

Submitted by Dinesh on 8 October, 2005 - 09:44

Assocham and ISPAI, among others, are not satisifed with some of the changes in the proposed IT Act 2005.

“The new Act will scare away foreign clients from Indian BPOs as they will not be held liable for any data theft/breach. The deletion of section 66, which deals with hacking will abet cyber crimes in India. We must take great caution as laws cannot be amended every now and then” Mr Duggal added.

Intel to launch hardy rural PCs

Submitted by Karthik on 7 October, 2005 - 09:26

Intel is all set to offer PCs customised to withstand rural conditions in India. The computers are said to come with special screens and filters to handle extreme heat and dust conditions, and will also have the option of being powered using a standard car battery to ensure that the lack of power is not an issue. Coupled with Intel's interest in promoting WiMAX everywhere, it probably makes sense to assume that these PCs will be supplied Wireless-enabled.

No prices have been announced thus far, but the PCs are scheduled to be launched by the end of this year.

eChoupal wins USD 100000 development gateway award

Submitted by Dinesh on 23 September, 2005 - 18:58

e-Choupal has been picked out of 135 nominees as the winner of the 2005 Development Gateway Award worth USD 100000. e-Choupal, which was briefly covered on Quillem last year, uses a kiosk system to provide real time market information, forecasts, marketing guides and more to rural farmers in a number of states around the country.

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Low Cost WiFi for villages

Submitted by Dinesh on 9 September, 2005 - 19:37

United Villages, an American low cost ISP has applied to the Indian government to set up shop in India, and provide Internet services to rural India at an annual cost of about Rs.50/person.

The system involved works on similar principles to a post office or an elaborate "Sneaker Net". A central node [post office] is set up and connected to the Internet using any means available (satellite for really remote areas). This node services a certain number of villages around it. Each day, an employee (postman) rides out from the centre on a bicycle or moped (where available) and makes a circuit of each village serviced by the central node. The two wheeler is outfitted with a hardy WiFi enabled computer (which incidentally is not connected to the central node while on the road).

Indian Root Nameservers Go Online

Submitted by Karthik on 26 August, 2005 - 15:09

Three root nameservers went online over the last three weeks in Chennai, New Delhi and Mumbai respectively. They were commissioned and installed by APNIC, in collaboration with the Department of Information Technology and NIXI. This is one in a number of steps being taken to promote self-sufficiency, reduce international bandwidth overheads and server loads.

Calls to end US domination of the internet

Submitted by Karthik on 26 August, 2005 - 11:54

India, China and others are spearheading calls for the end of US control over the DNS root servers that are the foundation of the Internet. While these servers are controlled by a not-for-profit organisation named ICANN, which liaises with world governmental bodies via the GAC, many governmental bodies are not satisifed with the existing structure as ICANN still falls under the jurisdiction of the USA.

Furthermore, recent statements by the US government have confirmed the view that it is looking to maintain indefinite control over the domain name system.

India's..Satisfaction Report

Submitted by Karthik on 22 August, 2005 - 00:39

You know those employee satisfaction forms that you regularly have to fill out in whichever bureaucracy you work for? It's supposedly completely anonymous; so you lace it with all the emotions - commonly negative - and brutal honesty that you feel for the company's practices and your higher-ups.. The analogy might be slightly stretched, but that's what reading this "review" of life in India felt like :P

It's more like the feedback of mostly US consular officials (on their time in India) to other prospective .. applicants, and makes for some interesting reading, if silly, misinformed and at times embarrassing.. Some of them are so emotionally.. honest that you can sense the frustrations, excitement etc. etc. in the text.. Palpable is the word I suppose - Not sure if this is because they are writing about India, or because it's something that I could relate to - *shrug*. Either way, I thought that a slightly frivolous 1:13 a.m Monday morning post would round off the weekend quite nicely :D

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