New Delhi: For a generation that has learnt to articulate thoughts in 140 characters and knows its smartphones and tabs, e-textbooks are only the next step. But some infrastructure bottlenecks need to be taken care of before that education revolution takes place in India, experts say. Technology giant Apple recently launched an app for digital textbooks that saw an astronomical 350,000 downloads globally in the first three days. Educationists agree...
03:51 PM, Feb 07, 2012
on this episode we discuss how technology can enhance the learning experience for students. ...
11:12 PM, Dec 24, 2011
London: Brewing giant Heineken is linking with social networking website Facebook to boost its global digital marketing, with the first fruits of the partnership being an online campaign aimed at making responsible drinking cool. The Amsterdam-based brewer, which claims it is the No 1 alcoholic drinks group on Facebook with over 4.6 million global fans, announced a partnership on Wednesday which will see Facebook advising it on using the world's...
09:44 AM, Dec 08, 2011
New Delhi: 'Crossing Currents', a two-day conference, looked at how literary content was being produced, packaged, sold and consumed differently in the world of increasing digitisation as interest in the new media publishing is growing in India. The conference, part of an annual 'Globalocal' initiative, was organised by the German Book Office in the capital and the Frankfurt Book Fair in the run up to the fair in 2012, the...
10:00 AM, Nov 26, 2011
London: The celluloid film, used by filmmakers for over a century, is most likely to be overtaken by digital cinema as the preferred mode of film-making by early 2012, and will disappear by 2015. For 120 years, movies have been distributed on celluloid rolls housed in circular canisters and shown by projectors burning intensely bright carbon arc lamps. But in early 2012, digital cinema will overtake celluloid globally, with the...
01:06 PM, Nov 18, 2011
Mumbai: In a pioneering move, CNBC-TV18, India's No 1 business news channel, has launched a new premium business news service, 'CNBC-TV18 Prime HD', focused on the needs of India's rapidly expanding investor and financial services community. Available in addition to the existing CNBC-TV18 channel, 'CNBC-TV18 PRIME HD' will be broadcast on India's leading DTH platforms in HD quality, in effect making CNBC-TV18 the first business news channel to foray into...
09:24 AM, Nov 14, 2011
Bangalore: Online retailer Amazon.com said Kindle owners with an Amazon Prime membership will now get access to the company's new digital book library service. Kindle owners with the Prime membership can choose from thousands of books to borrow for free on a Kindle device, including more than 100 current and former New York Times bestsellers, as frequently as a book a month, the company said. Amazon Prime costs $79 a...
12:12 PM, Nov 03, 2011
Gautam John, 32, is well prepared. On the professional front, he has done well. He dabbled in professions like law and even tried his hand at business, but stumbled onto Pratham Books and Akshara Foundation, where he works for the new projects division. On the personal front, he is all set to get married in January next year. And five years ago, he prepared himself for something else: Death. He...
10:42 AM, Oct 31, 2011
New Delhi: President Prathibha Patil has given her nod to an ordinance, which would make digitisation of cable services mandatory by 2014. The presidential assent marks the coming in to force of the government ordinance, which is set to bring the analog era in the Indian television to an end, Ministry of Information and Broadcasting officials said. The shift would mean all customers must have a set top box whether...
10:13 AM, Oct 29, 2011
Mumbai: Superstar Shah Rukh Khan today launched the digital avatar of G.One, a character that he plays in his much-awaited film 'Ra.One'. Shah Rukh had roped in UTV Indiagames to design a social game based on the film, which would serve the dual purpose of marketing the film as well as entertaining the users in the digital space. "We are bringing in the country the first superhero social game. It...
03:56 PM, Oct 04, 2011
New Delhi: Reliance MediaWorks has tied up with video management and licensing service provider Thought Equity Motion, Inc to offer integrated "smart content" to players in advertising, film, television, publishing and interactive media. Reliance MediaWorks, the film and media services firm of the Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group, will provide video footage to film studios, broadcasters and sports bodies as they move to digital file-based workflows and expand their distribution avenues...
02:52 PM, Oct 01, 2011
New York: Google Inc and authors and publishers groups have about nine more months to untangle their six-year-old legal dispute over plans to create the world's largest digital library, a federal judge said on Thursday. Manhattan federal court Judge Denny Chin told lawyers at a hearing that he was "still hopeful" they could reach a settlement even though "you're essentially starting from scratch." Chin said Google, the Authors Guild and...
11:37 AM, Sep 16, 2011
New York: Apple Inc, Nokia and Qualcomm Inc are among several technology companies pondering bids for InterDigital Inc, sources familiar with the situation said. The auction of the wireless telecommunications specialist - expected to be heavily contested as giant tech companies fight to shore up patent portfolios - will be postponed from next week until after Labour Day, the sources said. Shares in InterDigital, which has a market value of...
08:08 AM, Aug 18, 2011
New York: Social networking giant Facebook has bought a digital publishing company Push Pop Press that develops technology to help make interactive books optimised for iPad and other Apple devices. "We're thrilled to confirm that we've acquired Push Pop Press, a startup whose groundbreaking software changes the way people publish and consume digital content," Xinhua quoted Facebook as saying in a statement. Push Pop Press was co-founded by Mike Matas...
02:00 PM, Aug 03, 2011
London: A cosmetic advertisement featuring actress Julia Roberts has been banned in Britain after it was digitally altered to make her look flawless. The advertisement was banned after a Liberal Democrat MP, Jo Swinson, complained about the amount of airbrushing used on the image, contactmusic.com reported. Swinson claimed the commercial gave a "false impression of beauty". The "Pretty Woman" star appears in the campaign for Teint Miracle foundation by Lancome,...
02:38 PM, Jul 28, 2011
New York: Google Inc is in preliminary talks with InterDigital Inc about a possible acquisition of the wireless technology developer and licenser, says a report. The move would beef up Google's patent portfolio after it failed to acquire a trove of technology patents from Nortel Networks Corp. "Google has had preliminary discussions with InterDigital about a possible acquisition of the wireless technology developer and licenser," The Wall Street Journal reported,...
02:50 PM, Jul 21, 2011
In April this year, ticket sales at South Mumbais famed Regal cinema got an unexpected boost. Occupancy at this 78-year-old theatre, designed by Charles Stevens, usually hovers at around 25 percent " a far cry from what it was in the 50s and 60s when the crme da la crme of Bombays society thronged it. But during the last week of April, some shows ran to full house at the...
05:04 PM, Jul 11, 2011
Mumbai: Network18 on Monday announced the launch of Firstpost.com, an exclusive online news and views website that is truly digital and accessible across platforms and devices. Built on the fundamentals of blogging and the quick post, user interaction, discussion and debate, Firstpost presents a digital newsroom powered by expert writer-editors across the country and the globe to capture what we think is a powerfully shifting news and media consumption reality. ...
11:36 AM, May 09, 2011
New Delhi: The quality of pictures on our TV screen is set to get better with the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) considering a Government proposal to shift cable TV signals from analog to digital. If TV signals change from analog to digital the viewers will get to choose the channels they want, and not pay for channels that they don't want. From the perspective of broadcasters the High...
05:14 PM, Feb 03, 2011
