Comment Re:Negroponte is upping the ante (Score 1) 104
It will be subsidized by the Indian government so that it becomes cheap/free.
Comment And the actual page (Score 4, Informative) 130
The facebook page of the Delhi police where pictures are being posted and challans issued.
All this hullabaloo is due to the Common Wealth Games that are fast approaching. Once that's done, this facebook fiasco will die a slow death.
Comment Re:Manufacturing? (Score 1) 104
The Tata 'product' works pretty well on Indian roads... which is its target market.
Comment Re:Negroponte is upping the ante (Score 1) 104
my wild guess
Comment For Indians it's always more than 1 (Score 2, Informative) 674
My mother tongue is Tamil which I speak at home. I live in Kerala so I have to speak Malayalam when I'm out and to get around. At work, English and Malayalam.
Comment Re:At that price.. (Score 1) 294
The OS looks like Android to me
India's $35 Tablet Computer 294
NotBornYesterday was one of many readers sending in news that the Indian government has announced it is helping to develop a $35 tablet computer running Linux. "India has unveiled the prototype of a $35 basic touchscreen tablet aimed at students, which it hopes to bring into production by 2011. The government plans to subsidize the tablets so the cost to students could be $20; and eventually, they hope the cost will fall to $10 per unit. India's human resource development minister, Kapil Sibal, says, 'The motherboard, its chip, the processing, connectivity, all of them cumulatively cost around $35, including memory, display, everything.' Using a memory card instead of a hard drive, and running a Linux OS, the designers have managed to keep the price low, and are now looking for manufacturing partners. The tablet can be used for functions like word processing, Web browsing, and video conferencing. It has a solar power option too, which is important in India's less developed areas, though that add-on costs extra."
Comment Re:Now that's just not right... (Score 1) 235
He probably meant set age = giggity
Submission + - Indian currency gets a symbol (time.com)
slack_prad writes: The Indian government ran an year long open contest for the symbol and among 3000 shortlisted, 1 was chosen and announced.
The symbol will be included in the “Unicode Standard” for representation and processing of text, written in major scripts of the world. Consequently, the symbol will be encoded in the International standard ISO/IEC 10646. The symbol will also find its place in the Indian Standards. While the the encoding of the rupee symbol in the Indian Standards is estimated to take about six months, its inclusion in the global standards would take about 18 months to two years.
The symbol will be included in the “Unicode Standard” for representation and processing of text, written in major scripts of the world. Consequently, the symbol will be encoded in the International standard ISO/IEC 10646. The symbol will also find its place in the Indian Standards. While the the encoding of the rupee symbol in the Indian Standards is estimated to take about six months, its inclusion in the global standards would take about 18 months to two years.
Comment Meanwhile Office 2010 (Score 1) 458
Office 2010 will run (happily) on Windows XP SP3
Comment Re:I'll wait until Cyanogen adds it into his (Score 1) 154
of course, but who has the patience? certainly not me..
Comment Re:The real reason (Score 2, Insightful) 288
You can pay for a slashdot subscription for https access...
Comment Re:The real reason (Score 1) 288
If it were about Google reclaiming market, it would have been https://google.com/ only.. which isn't the case here.
Comment Re:Which devices? (Score 1) 305
don't think G1 is powerful enough to run the stock 2.2 (or anything above 2.0). 2.x and > have 3d elements built into the OS which the G1 simply is not capable of running (app list, Gallery)
They'd have to make a different 2.2 just for G1 with all that removed
I think cyanogen has made a 2.x port to G1. He may do a 2.2 port too.
YouTube Blocked In Pakistan 299
kokoko1 submits this snippet from The Telegraph, which reports that Facebook isn't alone — now YouTube, too, is being censored in Pakistan. "The blocking of YouTube comes a day after a Pakistani court blocked Facebook amid a growing row over a competition on the social networking website to design cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad." Update: 05/20 18:58 GMT by T : According to an anonymous reader, Wikipedia and Flickr are out, too.
Update: 05/21 12:11 GMT by KD : And now add Twitter to the blocked list. This post claims that more than 1,000 sites are being blocked in Pakistan.
Update: 05/21 12:11 GMT by KD : And now add Twitter to the blocked list. This post claims that more than 1,000 sites are being blocked in Pakistan.
