India

Indian Firefox Bus Probably Doesn't Have Wi-Fi

In what appears to be the endless spread of Firefox, a new addition to the unofficial Firefox catalog has been spotted—in India. On the back of a bus. We're guessing the bus doesn't have on board Wi-Fi to make use of its web browser of choice, but we admire the support. Also, if that text in yellow above the artwork doesn't read "Safari and IE blow", well, then we'll eat our cats...I'm seriously mixing up my modern proverbs this weekend. Dammit. [Neatorama]

6:30 PM on Sun Apr 13 2008
By Haroon Malik
4,531 views, 28 comments

Latest by sameoldoctor: @globones: what? more »

cellphones

Indian Spice Phone Has Optical Disk Drive For 2.5 Hour Movies

It's really unlikely that this Movie Phone from the Indian cellphone maker Spice would make it anywhere besides India, but it's an amazing phone because of what it's got on the back: an optical drive. This h.264 optical drive loads into the back of the phone much like UMDs into a PSP, and can fit a 2.5 hour film into one disc. There's going to be 40 movies available in India at launch, which will be followed by 1,000 more movies later. We only have one question, which will probably be the only time anyone on earth ever asks this question: Why didn't they just go with UMDs instead of making a proprietary format? [Tech Digest]

7:00 PM on Mon Feb 11 2008
By Jason Chen
4,924 views, 38 comments

Latest by n/a: @w00zzy: Maybe they are not thinking about selling movies & the phone for you ... more »

sea saw

How To Fix a Mysteriously Ruptured Undersea Cable

Not a week after two massive undersea telecom cables were snapped—according to BBC News, most likely due not to Godzilla but a single tanker "dragging its anchor along the sea bed"—and the repairs are well underway. But how in the hell do you repair a nine-layer steel-reinforced cable located deep beneath the surface of the Mediterranean? More »

10:10 AM on Wed Feb 6 2008
By Wilson Rothman
20,694 views, 62 comments

sea saw

Undersea Telecom Cables Mysteriously Cut, Digitally Stranding India and Middle East

One of today's biggest stories is the fact that India and the Middle East had about 75% of their digital connection to Europe cut off when two cables on the floor of the Mediterranean snapped under mysterious circumstances. Cables get damaged all the time, but never have two gone out simultaneously. It will take days, or even a week to repair the cables. No one knows the cause—or do they? See update below. More »

10:57 AM on Thu Jan 31 2008
By Wilson Rothman
23,200 views, 76 comments

security

Globalization and Its Malcontents: Mexico, India and Africa Will Be New Epicenters of Internet Crime

Computer viruses no longer come from the US or Europe; the hottest hotbeds of hackerdom may be in China and Russia now, but even that will shift. Soon, the most dangerous internet criminals might hail from Mexico, India and Africa, says a new study. Shouldn't somebody call Nick Negroponte? More »

9:45 AM on Fri Jan 18 2008
By Wilson Rothman
3,257 views, 17 comments

Latest by DJTripleRRR: Hahaha Africa! Take that! The place with like the highest crime rate is making it to the Internet scene. Take this virus from Xoxobe this malware from Mokhane and this worm from Noxolo! more »

virtual travel

Video of the Backyard Airline Experience in India

Remember the retired Indian Airlines engineer whose stationary airplane parked in his backyard was pulling in the punters? Well, Reuters toodled off to Delhi to clock Bahadur Chand Gupta's Airbus 300 experience for themselves, alongside a bunch of underprivileged kids who are flying for free. Anyone who scoffs at the idea, just check out the testimony of a 16-year-old passenger. "Today, my life's dream is fulfilled." Gupta's wife, who plays flight attendant, and guides the kids down the emergency chute (see? Loads better than flying for real) says of the experience, "Their happiness gives me the utmost pleasure." [LiveLeak]

9:28 AM on Fri Dec 28 2007
By AddyDugdale
4,638 views, 31 comments

Latest by gizmodohomepage: Fire it up! Let the kids play in jet wash!!!A sure fire way to blow trash off the streets. more »

stinky tech

Street Lights in India Powered By Poop

Yes, you read it correctly: The street lights in the Indian town of Thiruneermalai are run on digested curry. As National Geographic describes it, the human waste from an area housing complex collects in a sump, where the methane gas produced by the "sludge" is used to operate a generator. This biogas produces 3,000 watts of electricity daily, enough to keep the town bright at night. And you thought ovens running on garbage were gross. A friend who lived there this past spring tells me it never smelled bad, but then again, he's been known to generate a fair share of biogas himself. (Just kidding, Gelf!) [National Geographic]

4:20 PM on Tue Dec 11 2007
By Benny Goldman
11,124 views, 46 comments

Latest by n/a: what a waste of jenkem... more »

hype sheet

Hype Sheet: Acer Ladles Out the Bollywood Cheese

The Pitch Bollywood tropes can be hard for non-Indians to process, and the song-and-dance routine in this Acer spot is no exception. It starts off as a West Side Story clone, with finger-snapping toughs—er, "toughs"—bobbing their heads. But why are they in a prison? And what is matinee idol Hrithik Roshan doing there, teasing two inmates whose sentences include the forced use of laptops sans Acer's "eTechnology" bloatware? As the ensuing musical production explains, using an Acer Aspire 4920 shall liberate you from the shackles of technofrustration. "Life is busy, Acer makes it easy!" chimes Roshan, assisted by a gaggle of comely backup dancers. Perhaps, but does Acer really have a prayer of becoming the subcontinent's go-to laptop brand? More »

1:00 PM on Thu Nov 8 2007
By Brendan I. Koerner
6,390 views, 11 comments

Latest by sandro: holy crap ! more »

olpc

India Comes Crawling Back to OLPC

After referring to the OLPC laptop as "pedagogically suspect" a year ago, and claiming that they could build a laptop for $10 this past May, India has come back down to Earth and decided to take part in the project by delivering 22 of the laptops to lucky children in a one-room school in Maharashtra. Its a small start for a country with over a billion inhabitants, but officials have noted that distribution could broaden as early as June. [AP]

7:37 PM on Wed Oct 24 2007
By Sean Fallon
1,926 views, 6 comments

Latest by Vagabum: I have been rooting for the XO for the past year and with such a massive 1 Billion population (at least a quarter of them kids) it is good to see that India is reevaluating the XO, even if initially more »

virtual travel

Indian Guy Sells Flights in Plane that Never Takes off

An Indian entrepreneur has come up with the ultimate low-cost airline: one that doesn't fly anywhere. Bahadur Chand Gupta, a retired Indian Airlines engineer, bought an old Airbus 300 from an insurance company in 2003, rebuilt it, and it now sits in a Delhi suburb where people pay $4 per "trip" so they can experience what it must be like to fly. More »

1:15 PM on Tue Oct 2 2007
By AddyDugdale
17,827 views, 51 comments

Latest by ANoel: @Skeptical_Geezer: HaHaHa! more »

virginal

Scientists Create the First Super-duper "Pure White LED"

The American Chemical Society is claiming that the "holy grail" of the LED world has been reached. A pair of Indian Scientists have created a pure white LED. No longer will we have to suffer with odd blue- or yellow-like white LED's. The method used to achieve the white color was so blatantly obvious, they used "phosphors made from semiconductor nanocrystals of cadmium sulfide mixed with manganese." The scientific duo is currently attempting to raise its production consistency so that it can be brought to the masses. [Physorg via ACS]

2:45 PM on Wed Sep 26 2007
By blongo3
5,617 views, 25 comments

Latest by n/a: It is a great discovery that I've been tracking over the years as I work with alternate technologies in third world countries. Big whoop, right? Well, let me tell you, to have technology that would allow a small village to provide more »

cars

Indian Company Releasing $2,400 Car, the World's Cheapest

If you thought your Kia was a cheap car, you obviously didn't buy it in India. A country with an exploding population of drivers, India has a red-hot market for cheap autos. With that in mind, Indian company Tata Motors (oh, grow up) is selling a plastic car that'll run about $2,400 total. Yes, that makes it the cheapest car in the world. Hopefully it's safer than the cars they make in China. More »

8:00 PM on Mon Aug 20 2007
By Adam Frucci
24,226 views, 63 comments

excess

Richest Man in India Building a 60-story Home

If you thought a 205-inch TV was a symbol of conspicuous consumption, wait till you see this. The richest man in India is building a 60-story home for himself and the 600 people who serve him. Yeah, 600. It'll include 6 floors of parking space for his cars, 3 helipads, elevated gardens, and a health club. The square footage is greater than that of Versailles, and while the architecture looks pretty cool, it's excessive to the point of being really disgusting. More »

12:45 PM on Mon Jun 4 2007
By Adam Frucci
19,613 views, 62 comments

Latest by Danj3ris: man of many overlooked ideas.: I hope he gets locked out. more »

i think i can, i think i can

The Nokia Choo Choo

In New Dehli, people think trains are just tops. That's why Nokia will be renting rail time to promote their products in the area. More »

1:00 PM on Sat May 12 2007
By Mark Wilson
1,677 views, 3 comments

pipe dreams

Researchers in India Say They Can Build a Laptop for $10

Those industrious Indians are so smart. To hell with that one laptop per child (OLPC, pictured above) project whose notebook price started at $100 and now costs upwards of $175 and climbing—Indian researchers say they can bring one in for a fraction of that cost, a mere $10 for a fully-functioning laptop PC. The idea is floating around the halls of Indian government agencies, and supporting the project is state-sponsored integrated circuit design and manufacturer Semiconductor Complex. More »

10:26 AM on Fri May 11 2007
By Charlie White
3,264 views, 24 comments

Latest by desapar: It could happen. Remember when computers were so bulky and pricey that only governments and large corps could afford them? 'Sides, if you have enough volume, use really cheap or not-so-state-of-the-art tech, why not $50 today and eventually $10 in more »

feature

Low End Theory: Land of Contrasts, and of Calculators

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laptops

India Rejects $100 One Laptop Per Child Project

Nigeria may have ordered 1 million of the OLPC laptops, but India isn't saying "Thank you, come again" to Nicholas Negroponte and his band of MIT hooligans. The Indian Ministry of Education said the laptop was "paedagogically suspect" and that "We cannot visualise a situation for decades when we can go beyone the pilot stage. We need classrooms and teachers more urgently than fancy tools." More »

8:45 PM on Wed Jul 26 2006
By Jason Chen
1,555 views, 20 comments

software

Microsoft to Develop Cricket Umpiring Technologies

A bat is a bat, even if it flat, right? Microsoft seems to think so. Cricket officials have been receiving criticism from the International Cricket Council because the Indian umpires weren't too keen on international standards. This is where Microsoft steps in. Talks have began with Microsoft to develop a system that would raise umpiring standards for cricket across the globe. Matches would be recorded by six cameras and then a special program would analyze the video to make sure everything is all standard-like. They are currently in the final stages of negotiations. Good news for the cricket community worldwide, too bad the sport hasn't caught on in the states, yet. Image courtesy of nzcricket.org – Travis Hudson More »

2:44 PM on Mon Jul 17 2006
By Travis Hudson
188 views, 2 comments

Latest by Elvisisdead: Accenture is never a better choice. Well, unless you like your consultants to be history majors who fit a look and feel mold, but don't know anything. This is almost the same as the electronic eye in baseball that rates umpires more »

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