Friday 03 September 2010 Government 2.0: The Road Ahead

Technology

Ranchi varsity placement cell goes hi-tech

The varsity has upgraded the job alert mechanism for its students who will now be getting alerts about jobs through SMSs and e-mails

Google launches priority inbox, kills spam

The new application splits the inbox into three sections: 'Important and Unread', 'Starred' and 'Everything Else'

NF Rly executes GPS enabled water pumps

Under this system, pump is given command from Internet based programme to switch on or off from any location

Cisco plans to buy Skype

Skype is facing stiff competition from Google which last week launched a similar telephony service for users of its Gmail system

India may incentivise use of 'smart' metres

Studded with smart grid technology, the smart metres would enable consumers to monitor their power consumptions in real time to help cut power bills

India moves ahead with robotic surgery

With the robot for chest surgery, the doctors do not need to dissect the whole chest as is the norm in the traditional open chest surgery

UAV backing for anti-naxal operation in Jharkhand

The flying gadget can take high-resolution photographs of the difficult terrains and give inputs about movement of the rebels from a safe distance

Gmail allows phone calls from computers

Google will roll out the new feature to US-based Gmail users over the next few days and is working on making it available globally

Delhi Police to have C4i surveillance centre

It will provide a highly sophisticated surveillance system for communication with Delhi patrol officers during the Commonwealth Games

Trains to use GPS to avoid accidents

It will be helpful in reducing the number of accidents even on unmanned signals
 
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