It looks like terrorism is playing havoc with cyber cafe business these days.Earlier it was responsible to introduce stringent rules regarding user information for record purposes, now it has taken it a step forward with recent police proposal of making fingerprint compulsory in cyber cafe’s.

Mumbai police recently chalked out a plan to make fingerprint scanners [...]

Government announcement in 2008 about establishment of a Unique Identity Authority to simplify things for all citizens hardly aroused any public interest but the recent announcement of Nandan Nilekani joining as chairperson of the Unique Identification Authority of India seems to have lifted the expectations from this project.

What really is UID?
UID (Unique Identification) is a project [...]

Tata Indicom seems to be on the path to change the broadband scenario in India as it has launched photon+ in Delhi. Tata is treading carefully by launching the photon+ service in a phased manner as earlier it was launched in Chennai, Mumbai and some other cities.

The Photon+ service claims to be 20 time faster [...]

Conduit has announced the launch of a marketplace for publishers who use its toolbar. Called Conduit Open it basically lets publishers share their content with more than 200,000 other community toolbar publishers. This according to Conduit will help the publisher content reach more than 60,000,000 users of community toolbars of the above 200,000 publishers.

Microsoft is planning a collaboration with Mediaworks to build a software system that marketers can use to track everything from search advertising and e-mail newsletters to CRM systems to TV buys in one place. They plan to call the software Media Operations Management System.

The quest to deliver real time searches has bewildered many search competitors to shore up their resources. Collecta happens to be an early mover towards that phenomena and is said to be the first effective real time search engine.
How real is real-time search?
There is a spate of terms coined for search engines like Understanding Engine, [...]

In the short history of the web, if any resource on the web has come close to challenging Google’s position as the number one information repository it has to be Wikipedia. The powerful web resource that Jimmy Wells has built and runs purely through donations is one of the success stories of the Internet.And it is set to get bigger and better.

Indian government has banned the import of mobile phones without IMEI (International Mobile Equipment Identity) number. IMEI number is used to uniquely identify a mobile device. It corresponds to SSN or PAN number used to identify people.This move will majorly impact Chinese and Taiwanese  companies whose phones flooded Indian market. The penetration of  such mobile [...]

So when Opera launched the alpha release of Opera Unite, especially with the buzz that they created with the “on 16th The Web Will be Reinvented” campaign, they got me really excited. And true to their word they have taken the dimensions of a web browser to a whole new level in terms of the features on hand.

However, there are a few reasons I don’t think these features make them any better than a regular browser. These are:

Some odd four months ago, still in college, I was looking for some cheap yet dedicated web hosting solutions for my photoblog. Cheap; yet dedicated? Sounds like a dream world right. But apparently it was possible. Some techie friends of mine came to the rescue, and the solution is so stupidly simple that it never entered [...]

Ever mindful of the watchful eyes of the European Union, Microsoft has confirmed the rumours that it will not be including Internet Explorer in the latest version of its operating system Windows 7, that it ships in Europe. In fact, no browser will included in the operating system by default. This comes as a precautionary [...]

In what could be termed as government drive to regulate the entire cyber eco-system in the country, the government has issued a draft amendment which could allow it to block websites and Use the act to its comfort. The draft amendments are related to Information Technology (Amendment) Act, 2008, a bill passed in 2008.

In U.S, [...]

Microsoft Corp in a quest to provide complete security to its OS users would soon be launching its own antivirus app Code named-‘Morro’. Microsoft also informed that the early version of the product is currently tested by its employees and would soon make a beta product available online before going for a launch at the [...]

Firefox 3.5 is officially being rolled out of its beta tag and is moving onto the “preview” version which will soon be followed by the Release Candidate and the final 3.5. The preview version is a very stable beta and includes some very interesting updates like integration with the open source video standards and geo-location [...]

Wordpress has released their latest a much faster and cooler version of it popular blogging platform. So after getting a lot of people excited with its 2.7 release WP 2.8 is now available for download and has packed in a lot more user friendliness than before. According to Wordpress - version 2.8 represents a nice fit and finish release for WordPress with improvements to themes, widgets, taxonomies, and overall speed.