Archive for February, 2008
Tuesday, February 19th, 2008
Microsoft Corp. Chairman Bill Gates today will unveil a software giveaway that will ultimately provide millions of college and high school students around the world with access to the latest Microsoft developer and designer tools at no charge to unlock their creative potential and set them on the path to academic and career success.
The Microsoft DreamSpark student program (http://channel8.msdn.com) makes available, at no charge, a broad range of development and design software for download. The program is now available to more than 35 million college students in Belgium, China, Finland, France, Germany, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, the U.K. and the U.S. Broad global coverage, as well as an expansion of the program to high school students around the world, potentially reaching up to 1 billion students worldwide, will continue throughout the next year. Gates will share details with students and faculty at Stanford University as part of a U.S. and Canada college tour
that kicks off today.
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Tuesday, February 19th, 2008
Last time I told you that I quit Mozilla Firefox. I use Flock (flock.com). I am very happy with it till now.
But I haven’t quit Thunderbird yet. Its still my mail software. Thunderbird is finally getting the attention it deserves. I just saw this press release from Thunderbird developers that ” Mozilla Messaging, the new mail focused subsidiary of the non-profit Mozilla Foundation, today announced that it has begun operations.” Mozilla Messaging, Inc., is an absolutely new company.
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Friday, February 15th, 2008
At its 31st Public meeting currently underway in New Delhi, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) is exploring the possibility of introducing top level domain names in the local language and local scripts. At present while India has introduced domain names at the secondary level in the local language, the top-level domain names are still in the American ASCII code. In a special session on Internationalized Domain names (IDNs), the ICANN experts currently meeting in New Delhi held detailed discussions on the possibility.
The Indian experts in charge of language development in the Ministry of IT as well as Programme Head of CDAC, Mr Mahesh Kulkarni shared India’s experience in developing a primer on how the 22 Indian languages can be categorized and what scripts and script families are. Development of language tables, policy issues for Indic scripts also figured in the discussions. Senior experts from ICANN debated on the complexities involved in non-English languages. Alternate spellings pose a problem. In conclusion, Indian experts explained that only homographs are being considered and CDAC has achieved Unicode character set finalization for inclusion in IDN.
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