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क्या है न्यू ईयर ?
Dec 31st
एक जनवरी के नजदीक आते ही जगह-जगह हैप्पी न्यू ईयर के बैनर व होर्डिंग लगने लगते हैं। जश्न मनाने की तैयारियां प्रारम्भ हो जाती हैं। होटल, रेस्तरॉ, व पव इत्यादि अपने-अपने ढंग से इसके आगमन की तैयारियां करने लगते हैं। पोस्टर व कार्डों की भरमार के साथ दारू की दुकानों की भी चांदी कटने लगती है। कहीं कहीं तो जाम से जाम इतने टकराते हैं कि घटनाऐं दुर्घटनाओं में बदल जाती हैं और मनुष्य- मनुष्यों से तथा गाड़ियां गाडियों से भिडने लगते हैं। रात-रात भर जाग कर नया साल मनाने से ऐसा प्रतीत होता है मानो सारी खुशियां एक साथ आज ही मिल जायेंगी। हम भारतीय भी पश्चिमी अंधानुकरण में इतने सराबोर हो जाते हैं कि उचित अनुचित का बोध त्याग अपनी सभी सांस्क्रतिक मर्यादाओं को तिलांजलि दे बैठते हैं। पता ही नहीं लगता कि कौन अपना है और कौन पराया। More >
Google ‘Instant’ launches
Sep 11th
Google has announced that it will begin to roll out ‘Instant’ search results around the world from 8 September. Google searches will now predict what users are looking for from the moment they start typing, the company announced. As internet users begin a word, Google’s homepage will move instantly to a page of results that is updated as each letter is typed. More >
Ten ways to protect online privacy
Aug 21st
Facebook, Google, MySpace, Twitter, Bebo, Habbo, the proliferation of social networking means people are making more information about themselves accessible to strangers than ever before. As attitudes to privacy are starting to change, here is a short list of some ways you can protect your privacy online: More >
The birth of the web Part-3
Mar 3rd
I sent my first email in 1994, not long after arriving at university, from a small, under-ventilated computer room that smelt strongly of sweat. Email had been in existence for decades by then – the @ symbol was introduced in 1971, and the first message, according to the programmer who sent it, Ray Tomlinson, was “something like QWERTYUIOP”. (The test messages, Tomlinson has said, “were entirely forgettable, and I have, therefore, forgotten them”.) But according to an unscientific poll of friends, family and colleagues, 1994 seems fairly typical: I was neither an early adopter nor a late one. More >
Frenzied visions of a global conscious brain Part-2
Mar 3rd
One of the most intriguing things about the growth of the internet is this: to a select group of technological thinkers, the surprise wasn’t how quickly it spread across the world, remaking business, culture and politics – but that it took so long to get off the ground. Even when computers were mainly run on punch-cards and paper tape, there were whispers that it was inevitable that they would one day work collectively, in a network, rather than individually. (Tracing the origins of online culture even further back is some people’s idea of an entertaining game: there are those who will tell you that the Talmud, the book of Jewish law, contains a form of hypertext, the linking-and-clicking structure at the heart of the web.) More >
Forty years of the internet: how the world changed for ever Part-1
Mar 3rd
In October 1969, a student typed ‘LO’ on a computer – and the internet was born
Towards the end of the summer of 1969 – a few weeks after the moon landings, a few days after Woodstock, and a month before the first broadcast of Monty Python’s Flying Circus – a large grey metal box was delivered to the office of Leonard Kleinrock, a professor at the University of California in Los Angeles. It was the same size and shape as a household refrigerator, and outwardly, at least, it had about as much charm. But Kleinrock was thrilled: a photograph from the time shows him standing beside it, in requisite late-60s brown tie and brown trousers, beaming like a proud father. More >
Internet Explorer ‘hit with new set of security flaws’
Jan 25th
A US security research firm has found another set of vulnerabilities within Internet Exlporer, only a day after Microsoft released an emergency software update. Microsoft had to release an unscheduled security update last week to protect IE users and could face having to do so again. More >
Top ten internet passwords to be avoided
Jan 23rd
The ten most commonly used passwords on the web have been revealed as part of an analysis of tens of millions of internet accounts. Imperva, a data security firm, said it had analysed around 32 million passwords that had been exposed in a recent hack of the RockYou website. More >
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