First Published in The New Indian Express (2000 12 16) and later on OCMS.inThe challenge has come earlier than expected. China, last week, became the first country to deliver a knockout punch to Verisign, an American company, which was registering domain names in Chinese. Mao Wei, director of the China Internet Network Information Centre,...
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First Published in The New Indian Express (2000 12 09) and later on OCMS.inIndias most aggressive dotcom venture, rediff.com, is in the dock. It has been charged with promoting pornography on the net and its directors, if convicted, will end up in prison for two years. Their crime, says Pune’s First Class Magistrate S...
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First published in The New Indian Express in 2002A term missing in the American response to the September 11 terror attacks was information warfare, also referred to as cyber war. The reason for this was simple: Afghanistan and its rulers Taliban possessed no information capabilities. A term missing in the American response to the...
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First published in The New Indian Express in 2002 Ever since the September 11 bombings the world has been on edge. Hoax calls have grounded planes, emptied offices and disrupted life across the globe. The virtual world too has had its share of misinformation being pumped as truth. But the one that shook the...
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First Published in The New Indian ExpressI often wonder what will happen to Internet if the hype is taken out. Will the growth curve flatten out? Or will it falter momentarily and then snort up? It is very difficult to say. The forecasters only talk of tomorrow, not today. The nerds and geeks go...
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Most technologies use four to five years as seed time to throw up a new product. But not the Internet. In the last four years, the Internet has jumped four generations. First, came the content and it was anointed as the king. Then came e-commerce, followed by audio streaming. And now it is WAP,...
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There is a ring of sensationalism in today’s media reports. Often, the desire to be the first with the news leads to the telecast/printing of stories that are half-true or half-investigated. There is also an effort to trip news sources and to trap them by using miniature recording devices. This did not happen in...
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