Open Source Trouble at Wikipedia?

Until recently, however, Wikipedia was run more like a storefront community center than a digital-age powerhouse. What was a nine-person operation ??? a top 10 Web site had a paid staff of less than 10 ??? has just recently grown to a 15-person operation. Last year???s $2.2 million budget grew to $4.6 million this year.???A surprising number of people don???t even know it is a nonprofit,??? Ms. Gardner said.

Dollar Bleeds Indian IT – BPO Industry

The Indian success story in ITES was, according to me, a major factor that boosted the confidence levels of Indian business captains. The revenues of IT companies, their liberal HR policies were talk of the nation for a long time. But this is going to change – if the US Dollar downfall continue. Lot of my engineering batchmates were employed in biggies like Infosys and Wipro, and were paid hefty

Human-Computer Interaction to Get Revolutionised

Here are links to 3 BBC articles which talk about the new & revolutionary ways of human-machines interaction – Has touch technology come of age?Technology is going touchy-feely as products appear which threaten to replace the humble mouse with finger-touch computing… Brain control headset for gamersGamers will soon be able to interact with the virtual world using their thoughts and

Citydwellers or Citizens?

Urbanisation has been a subject of constant interest to me. Now since half of the world will be urban by 2025 – as par an UN report, Urbanisation and urban centres escalate on the agenda of policymakers and on to the public conscious. I live in Pune, a city which is on verge of becoming the new IT destination of India. With a network of quality educational institutes, large student population,

India’s economy | What’s holding India back? | Economist.com

But over the past 15 years it has been transformed into a far more powerful beast. Its companies have become worldbeaters. Without India’s strength, the world economy would have had far less to boast about.Click here to find out more!Sadly, this achievement is more fragile than it looks. Many things restrain India’s economy, from a government that depends on Communist support to the caste system,

Last surviving U.S. World War I veteran – CNN.com

Soon, he was deployed to war and headed overseas on the Carpathia — the same ship used in the rescue mission of the Titanic.art.buckles.cnn.jpgWorld War I veteran Frank Buckles entered the Army at age 15. “I didn’t lie,” he said with a laugh this week.Click to view previous image1 of 4Click to view next imageHe drove ambulances in Britain and France for soldiers wounded during World War I.A few

Commision for Excellence – Students are Human Resources Too…

Declining standards of education have always been a cause of worry for educators and parents world over. In countries like India, the classrooms crammed with children and non-performing teachers is a regular feature (apart from teacher absenteeism in rural and remote areas). ‘How to make the teachers perform?’ is the question of the millennium for policy-makers. One simple to imagine way-out can