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One Laptop Per Child Gets The Green Light in India

12/05/2007  
Relevance: 7.82
India may have been a late starter in adopting the powerful computer-based education program One Laptop Per Child (popularly known as OLPC), a brainchild of MIT professor Nicholas Negroponte to bridge the technology divide between rich and the poor children in the developing world. But with the formation of an Indian edition -- called OLPC India -- the program, which aims to equip millions of world's school children with cheap laptops, is not only set to make an entry into India but also promises to do it with a bang.
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Retail Sales of CDMA-connected XO Laptops in India?!

07/14/2008  
Relevance: 7.58
Tucked away in Deepshikha Monga's short article,"OLPC looks to World Bank for India funding" is a XO laptop bombshell:"Later this year, the XO laptops are expected to hit the retail stores. Sources say Reliance Communications, which partnered OLPC Foundation to conduct an XO pilot project in Maharashtra last year, is looking at retailing these laptops bundled with its CDMA modems." Might this be the reason for Nicholas Negroponte's visit to India in August for OLPC India Day? Regardless, it would be a shocking yet welcomed shift in strategy for One Laptop Per Child.
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KDE at Guademy, Spain and FOSS MEET, India

02/21/2007  
Relevance: 7.38
A joint KDE and Gnome meeting is taking place in Spain next month called Guademy. The objectives are to create new projects and initiatives of collaboration between both Desktops and allow new developers to get started. Aaron Seigo will give an update on KDE 4 and Albert Astals Cid will talk about Okular. Meanwhile in India Pradeepto Bhattacharya of KDE India will be talking at FOSS MEET in NIT Calicut about KDE 4 and why you should develop with Qt.
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Linux and Open Source Messaging Leader Scalix Expands Into India

01/27/2007  
Relevance: 7.37
Scalix Corporation...today announced its appointment of GT-Enterprises, India’s leading distributor of Linux-related products, as a Scalix Master Distributor. Scalix also signed agreements with six new value added resellers (VARs) across India, all who have extensive Linux and messaging expertise.
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Is Free Software the future of India? Steve Ballmer CEO of Microsoft answers...

11/14/2006  
Relevance: 7.27
On a recent visit to India, Microsoft's CEO Steve Ballmer was posed this question in a talk show hosted by a premier cable TV news channel on whether"Free Software is indeed the future of India". And he ended up responding in a round about way bypassing the word Free Software ....
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An Open Letter on OOXML Happenings in India

06/04/2008  
Relevance: 7.26
The appeal filed by India against OOXML is not yet available, but you can get a pretty good idea of what it likely is about by reading this open letter, Finally, My open letter on OOXML happenings in India by Dr. Deepak B. Phatak, a member of the committee, written to members of the LITD 15 committee of BIS, India. Among the issues Dr. Phatak raises are that OOXML is"not mature enough for acceptance as an ISO standard" yet; that there's no final draft available; the standard has been broken up into parts, and new conformance criteria introduced; and that the BRM meeting"failed in its basic objectives of resolution through technical discussion" since there was insufficient time to discuss most of the issues and in the end, most of the NBs abstained.
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Red Hat Announces First Red Hat Developer Day In India

10/28/2006  
Relevance: 7.26
Red Hat announced the commencement of the first Red Hat Developer Day in India. An exclusive Red Hat event, the Red Hat Developer Day aims to bring together Linux developers and users to help grow open source technologies, development, techniques, tools and standards through the sharing of technical knowledge and expertise. This first of its kind event marks Red Hat's continuous efforts to encourage open source development in India.
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Red Hat Gets Its New President

08/23/2006  
Relevance: 6.88
Red Hat India has recently appointed its new President and Managing Director, Nandu Pradhan who succeeds Javed Tapia, and will serve as a Director on the board of Red Hat India.
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India has fourth fastest supercomputer

11/15/2007  
Relevance: 6.87
In what can be seen as inspiration for South Africa and the developing world in general, a machine in India has taken fourth place in the latest list of the top 500 supercomputers in the world.
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Ingres Extends Open-Source Presence to India

10/18/2006  
Relevance: 6.60
Open-source database company Ingres is continuing its strategy to expand around the world, opening operations in India.
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