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Indonesia’s media goes blogging
Indonesia’s respected and influential media, TEMPO, launched its blog section in Bahasa Indonesia (Indonesian language) recently. TEMPO newsmagazine, which also published daily Koran Tempo, is the first mainstream media (MSM) in the country to venture into the blogosphere.
IT training for teachers from 3G villages
I wrote about 3G villages in the southern part of Indonesia’s Sumatra island here last year. And now, there’s an interesting progress: The teachers from Way Kanan, Lampung, were recently invited to Jakarta to attend a series of training on IT.
PT Microsoft Indonesia and Qualcomm Incorporated hosted the program to train trainers, aimed at teachers […]
How the Fatih Syuhud Way plays
Every world has its own star. So it also goes for the world of Indonesia’s blogosphere. I would undoubtedly pick A. Fatih Syuhud, a researcher-turn-blogger, to be an Indonesian top blogger. This guy has made a significant achievement: Inspiring and encouraging many Indonesian bloggers to blog.
He is now accomplishing his PhD program on Islamic Studies […]
Indonesia’s Net access almost recovers
Almost two week after the 7.1 Richter Scale earthquake in the Taiwan peninsula that has disrupted internet access across Asia, Internet access in Indonesia has almost recovered to normal.
Some Internet service providers as well as cellular operators claim their Internet access has gone backed to normal starting end of December.
The third biggest GSM operator, Excelcom, […]
Indonesia’s software ready to compete big boys
Stop your daily routine of opening, closing and changing from one application to another, for e-mail, browser, instant messaging, agenda, address book, word processing, spreadsheet, video conferencing, multimedia chat rooms and many more. Just use one application that does it all.
Yes, this is a tool that has everything. By using Indline you can create multimedia […]
Greet a computer graphics master from Indonesia
Please look at the picture below. Is it a photo of Korean actress Song Hye Kyo? Well… Wrong! It’s not a photo but a computer-generated image created by Max Edwin Wahyudi of Indonesia.
This 24-year-old boy submitted this piece to the CGI forum CGTalk four months ago and he’s been making waves ever since.
Modelling was done […]
Indonesia’s Indosat launches 3G
Indonesia’s second-biggest mobile operator, PT Indosat Tbk, today launched 3G services following two other rivals, Telkomsel and Excelcomindo which rolled out similar services earlier this year.
For the first term, Indosat will schedule this service for the Jakarta and Surabaya areas as part of various telecommunications technology innovations commemorating the 39th anniversary of the company.
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The first computer camp for the blind in Indonesia
Information technology access should be like air or oxygen for everyone, including for those who lack eyesight. So, then, IT is also one of human rights’ requirements.
One hundred blind and visually impaired people gathered yesterday in the main hall of the Agency for the Assessment and Application of Technology (BPPT) building, Jakarta, for a computer […]
