Archive | August, 2008

Education in India

A friend of mine went to Botswana and this is what he wrote from there about education in India. It all starts with the birth of the child. The parents want him to become a doctor and they even get him toy stethoscopes, toy doll’s to operate on etc… The grand parents want him to [...]

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ASPIRE-08

St.Joseph’s College of Engineering and Technology,Palai is organizing the 7th Annual Student Convention of ISTE Kerala Section ,”ASPIRE-08″ on 19th & 20th September 2008.All Engineering and polytechnic students in Kerala are cordially invited to present papers in the convention.There are other interesting events that will be conducted at the same with handful of prizes. For [...]

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NIT Calicut Presents TATHVA-08

National Institute of Technology, Calicut is organizing its annual All-India Techno-management fest, TATHVA-08 from 23rd-26th of October. Tathva has come a long way since its inception in 2001. Although every edition was surpassed only by its successor, there was a quantum leap in 2007 when the budget was tripled and the fest graduated to an [...]

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IBM conducting The Great Mind Challenge 2008

The Great Mind challenge promotes students from engineering colleges from across India in their endeavor to develop solutions, for real-time problems and scenarios using IBM open source software. It is aimed to encourage students who aspire to make key contributions to develop applications on cutting-edge IBM technologies while providing them with an opportunity to improve [...]

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Future Of Display Devices

LCD and PLASMA You all know LCD, liquid crystal display which is the current king of display devices. Plasma stays very near to it. LCD is cheaper and good, their black level reproductions have markedly improved, ditto their viewing angles, and their popularity makes them cheaper than Plasma. Plasmas though, are still the tech to [...]

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