A new trend in online education involves students acting through animated characters called “avatars” mingling in simulated school settings and even rocketing off, via the Internet, on quests for knowledge says this article.
The San Jose State University for instance, has built a campus at Second Life, which spans 16 digital acres dotted with school buildings [...]
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WiMax, generally considered to be Wi-Fi on steroids since it can provide broadband wireless access (BWA) up to 30 miles (50 km) for fixed stations, and 3-10 miles (5-15 km) for mobile stations, compared to the 100-300 feet for Wi-fi/802.11, is making its presence felt in India, albeit with a whimper as this article states.
Major [...]
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Authors are invited to submit their papers on interactive media/artworks to the Session “Interactive Design Systems” of the CCCT08 International Conference on Computing, Communications and Control Technologies.
All the accepted papers will be published into the Conference Proceedings
The selection of the best papers will take part of a special issue of the JSCI Scientific journal (Journal [...]
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Hold on to any paper airline tickets that you would have used, and you might just be holding on to a piece of history.
In a move started 4 years ago, the International Air Travel Association (IATA) will be switching completely to e-ticketing from June 2008.
Not only will this move save an estimated $3 billion a [...]
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A new report from Borrell Associates, What Local Media Web Sites Earn: 2008 Survey, shows local online ad spending rising at a 50% rate, to exceed $13 billion this year, compared to 2007 revenues of $8.7 billion (I think this refers to the US market). This is based on a survey of over 3,000 local [...]
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With YouTube.in – its Indian avtaar, the online video community portal joins other global online content players like Yahoo, MSN, Google, AOL, and Reuters to launch a localised version of their websites, no doubt prompted by the potential in the Indian online advertising marketplace which stood at Rs 215 crore in 2007, and is estimated [...]
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According to the latest ORG data, Samsung is the only prominent player to have increased its market share in the Indian mobile instrument market in the January-March period, going from 5.7% in January to 7% in March says the Business Standard. In the same period, Motorola India lost market share from 6.7% to 5.9%, while [...]
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Amazon.com is planning to launch a streaming video service in the next few weeks to add to it’s range of digital media offerings. This would allowing viewers to essentially rent movies via the Web rather than download large files to store on personal computers or other devices says Reuters.
Besides recently launching an electronic book reader, [...]
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With the aim to build an online entertainment resource for India comes LetZgoparty, a social nightlife networking portal dedicated to nightlife, parties, events, fashion, music and networking.
The site covers nightlife news, events, club listings, music reviews, DJ interviews, celebrity interviews, quiz section, poll, and a space for people to upload party pictures.
According to the release, [...]
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As part of the 11th Five Year Plan, the postal department is in the process of collating the National Address Database which would map where you live, who you live with, how long you’ve been living there, what car you drive and your last five addresses. With a budget of Rs. 5 crores, the project [...]
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