For Internet savvy farmers Few Indian farmers know the actual price and stock level of their produce in the market or mandi before they come to sell. Too many people, vested interests
Ashok Jhunjhunwala, professor, Indian Institute of Technology, Chennai, is the man behind the wireless local loop technology cor dect and the TeNeT Telecommunications and Computer Networks group.
The world wide web has a huge resource of information available to tap. But precisely because of its size, it is also extremely hard to search for the relevant information. Now scientists have found
The diffusion of infotech happens at varying speeds at various levels. The speed at which the technology spreads its reach in an industrialised country is 243 times the speed at which it can impact a
Recent computer simulations have shown that the Internet is surprisingly robust on a global scale. This means that even if up to 99 per cent of its connection
About fixing the Y2K bug Is the millennial fever too much for you to resist? Are you already imagining all the havoc that the Y2K bug will cause to computer systems across the world? Also, do
On March 26, thousands of computers across the world were infected with the Melissa virus through the Internet. Many large corporations had to shut down their e mail servers for the day. Just how vulnerable is the electronic age?
Easy dissemination of information and global access are two of the Internet's key strengths. Ironically, these are also its biggest weaknesses. Anyone any corner of the globe can sneak into important
