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July 14th, 2007
Entertainment industry is changing fast in India. Currently there are four major digital TV service providers in Kerala. In this post, I will briefly look at each of them. All these are known as Direct to home (DTH) providers except Asianet digital who uses their cable network infrastructure.
Satellite TV offers unbelievable picture clarity and stereo [...]
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July 12th, 2007
Shijaz writes about his experience on the Malayalam language pack for Windows XP,
So I dared to download the Windows XP interface pack of my native language, Malayalam from the Microsoft website. Very interesting to note that even the download page was written in Malayalam. Too excited to read, I went ahead, downloaded and installed it.
He [...]
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June 26th, 2007
Here is an Asianet video on Vinod’s amphibious car. You can drive this in water and on road! This car is air tight and float on water!
He says that the flash flood that happens near Thampanoor railway station in trivandrum inspired him! Kerala government has a plan to open the water way from manjeri to [...]
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June 25th, 2007
What is a barcamp?
Barcamp is ad-hoc gathering of people with desire to learn and share information. It involves discussions, demonstrations and interaction from participants. Barcamp means participation and normally tourist/visitors are not encouraged. Most of the barcamps are on technical topics.
Barcamp in Kerala?
Yes. It seems that a barcamp is being organized in Kerala. The date/venue [...]
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March 28th, 2007
Kerala Postal Service has signed an agreement with REVA electric car company recently. As per the agreement RECC will provide 3 customized electric cars, which will be used to collect and deliver speed post items in and around Trivandrum! It is expected that this service will be operational from April 16th this year.
These cars are [...]
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March 16th, 2007
Thomas P John has setup a site to simplify searching Malayalam content on Google. If you used to type Malayalam words in Varamozhi and then used to copy it to Google search, this site will be very handy!
Tapioca (Search the web in Malayalam) is powered by Mozhi and Anajli old font. From Tapioca,
Tapioca at this [...]
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March 8th, 2007
Shijaz Abdulla looks at the “state of technology” in Kannur,
So my last resort was to go to an Internet cafe, like everyone else. The good thing is that Kannur is dotted with a large number of internet cafes. Wherever you are in town, you will find a cafe near you. Maybe someday the number of [...]
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February 16th, 2007
Kerala’s IT park (Technopark) will become the largest IT park in India when the new building Thejaswini is inaugurated. Kerala chief minister V S Achuthanandan will inaugurate the building on February 22. Operations in Thejaswini are expected to start soon. Thejaswini has 12 floors and a total built up area of over 600,000 square feet. [...]
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February 15th, 2007
Vinod from Trivandrum converted his Maruti 800 to an amphibious carwhich can run on road and on water! It took him 5 years and 8.5 lakh rupees.
Vinod is a mechanic and has a diploma in refrigeration technology.
“I was traveling in my car in the city when it was raining. I got stuck in the [...]
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February 14th, 2007
Torque is startup company operating out of Technopark, Trivandrum. It is small company started by 4 students of College of Engineering, Trivandrum. From Torque site,
Torque is a 360 degree wireless solution and service provider, leveraging a blend of rapid information delivery and communication streams.
Torque specializes in providing wireless messaging solutions which empower you to [...]
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February 8th, 2007
Kerala police has installed a polygraph machine (lie detector) in Trivandrum as part of the modernization program. Home minister Kodiyeri Balakrishan inaugurated the machine, but didn’t volunteer for a test
In fact the machine was with Kerala police with sometime. The problem was that nobody was available to operate it. Kerala Police also has [...]
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January 30th, 2007
Ministry of communications & information technology has released a suite of tools for Malayalam language. You can download them here. The package contains,
Malayalam fonts (true type, open type etc.)
Malayalam spell checker
Malayalam-English and English-Malayalam dictionaries
Malayalam Microsoft word tool
Malayalam OCR (very useful!)
Malayalam text to speech tool
I don’t know how Achu mama will react with all these Microsoft [...]
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January 26th, 2007
Reliance offers broadband service (if you can call 144kbps service as broadband service!) through its mobile network called netconnect. Two devices(USB and PCI) are available in the market for about Rs. 4500. The USB device is the best!
This device also has a phone number, hence you can make or receive calls when the device is [...]
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January 25th, 2007
Here are some key excerpts from the Kerala’s new IT policy. Whether things in policy will be put into practice is a stupid question…
The Government realizes that Free Software presents a truly unique opportunity in building a truly egalitarian knowledge society. The Government will take all efforts to develop Free Software and Free Knowledge and [...]
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January 23rd, 2007
Sainul Abideen, who has just finished his MCA from MES Engineering College in Kuttipuram in Kerala’s Malappuram district, has developed a technique for portable data whereby the data can now be stored on ordinary paper. This technology is called as Rainbow storage.
Interestingly this news item was picked up by a lot of technical forums and [...]
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