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The modest telephone lines -- with their constantly evolving technology -- are going to stay as the backbone of the revolution in information technology. Right now, fibre optics is making a big

An abbreviation for "users network", USENET is a collection of electronic bulletin boards or conferences called "newsgroups" -- where users all around the world read and post articles containing

The US is hopping mad about Chinese outfits copying and selling American products

Microsoft, the US computer software giant, has firsthand experience of its products being pirated in China. Despite burgeoning demand for personal computers -- China imports between 500,000 and

Smitten by the computer bug, S Sridharan, a Lok Sabha member from Madras, has emerged as the driving force behind a smuggling network that was bringing in the latest in computer hard disks and

Kamasutra in multicoloured graphics with sound effects thrown in for good measure, is now available on CD-Rom. The multi-media extravaganza, incorporating text, sound, pictures and colour, is the

Most water starved nations cannot afford the extravagance of purifying water for agriculture through conventional desalination techniques. The London-based Light Works may have just the answer: a

E mail has made it easier for swindlers in the US to rob the unwary

As a convergence of technological fields and traditional disciplines, of geography and remote sensing, surveying and computer science, GIS has a wide range of applications

The GIS' greatest enemy is a government obsessed with paranoid secrecy about data

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