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Indian Prime Minister’s Office gets Twitter account

By Sriram Vadlamani Tue, Jan 24, 2012 6:51PM UTC View Comments

The Indian Prime Minister’s Office has opened a Twitter account. It is a brave, bold and rather audacious move by Manmohan Singh. The account can be accessed at @PMOIndia. Now remember that this is not the Prime Minister tweeting but the Prime Minister’s Office. This could only mean that there will be a team screening...

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Indian telecom sector shies away from low-carbon model

By Subir Ghosh Tue, Oct 25, 2011 2:53AM UTC View Comments

Bharti Airtel and the Cellular Operators Association of India (COAI) have reneged on their commitment of disclosing a detailed and sustainable emission reduction plan, including a substantial substitution of diesel with renewable alternatives to power their network operations by September 2011, environmental organisation Greenpeace India has alleged. The public commitment was made following a meeting...

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Putting some perspective on the world’s cheapest ‘tablet’

By Sriram Vadlamani Fri, Oct 21, 2011 2:30PM UTC View Comments

Indian students pose with the supercheap 'Aakash' Tablet computers which they received during its launch in New Delhi, India. Pic: AP.

If you are reading this, then the world’s cheapest tablet, Aakash, isn’t meant for you. You were not the target audience when Aakash was conceived, designed and executed. The target audience was different. Aakash was supposed to be an entry point in India for students to get access to the Internet. The critics around the...

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Why India’s latest microblogging site ZaraBol is destined to #FAIL

By Sriram Vadlamani Fri, Oct 21, 2011 12:06PM UTC View Comments

Rediff, an India-based portal, has lost its way. Though it had a brief poster boy image amongst India’s web properties, it never really innovated except for a redesign of its website and pestering its users with slideshows. Now let’s see what Rediff has been up to. There is email, there’s content and there’s search. Of...

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India’s digital divide

By Asia Sentinel Wed, Oct 19, 2011 11:51AM UTC View Comments

Indian students pose with the supercheap 'Aakash' Tablet computers which they received during its launch in New Delhi, India, Wednesday, Oct. 5, 2011. Pic: AP.

Will a US$35 ‘tablet for the poor’ bring computing power to the masses? Not likely, writes Asia Sentinel’s Cyril Pereira The Minister for Communication & Information Technology, Kapil Sibal, announced with much pomp on 5th October, the breakthrough pricing of a tablet computer at US$35 for “millions of India’s schoolchildren” to become digitally connected and...

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