How semi-literate children in a remote Indian village taught themselves molecular biology
Sugata Mitra's radical new teaching method promises to upend education as we know it.
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Google Earth ventures 'into thin air'
In a landmark project, Google Earth has teamed up with locals to provide a fully immersive experience of the Sherpa community and their mountain home in the Sagarmatha region in Nepal, home to the tallest mountain in the world, Everest.
India's TechM hooks up with IBM for a hybrid cloud platform
A union with IBM will help TechM keep pace with biggies such as TCS and Infosys in a race to offer the world advanced cloud solutions.
Report suggests US paranoia about H-1Bs largely unsupported by facts or stats
From a rampaging imported Indian workforce to a shortage of STEM jobs, this paper by the National Foundation for American Policy suggests that a web of myths have dominated discourse around foreign tech workers, and that it could ultimately torpedo the American economy.
India's Chargebee takes the sting out of billing hassles
Chargebee is yet another company whose origins can be traced to indignant comments on a Hacker news post about a subscription rate hike — in this case, at billing infrastructure leader Chargify — which inspired the founders to jump-start a competing service.
India's SaaS cloud stars
India has long been derided as a desert for product companies. Some point to the country’s long history as a colonial subject as a reason for this phenomena, others to its socialist past, and many to its lack of a culture of scientific innovation of any significant scale and reach post-independence.
Deskaway emblematic of new Indian SaaS businesses
Two important factors contributed to the birth of Deskaway — a web-based collaboration app that provides a central location for teams to easily manage projects.
India's ParaBlu claims to supply totally secure cloud storage
SaaS storage provider uses hardare plug-in appliance to protect client data in the cloud.
1Click ups the ante on enterprise video conferencing
This enterprise cloud venture optimizes bandwidth, which could be a key solution for fibre-starved countries such as India.
Sirion Labs on mission to cut waste in outsourcing
Indian SaaS provider's processes and analytics designed to reduce wastage in major outsourcing arrangements.