WAP
still nascent in India
THINK
of a life when you could check your bank accounts even while dancing at a
disco and not having to bear the hassles of going there personally. Does it
seem incredible? But well no it isn’t. This is what is being promised
about the life that is going to in India in the days to come.
Fine-tune
modem for better surfing
by Vipul
Verma
COMPUTERS
today are not merely an office tool, but have become an integral part of the
modern life. Thanks to the Internet that has served as a catalyst in the PC
revolution. The Internet, which enabled voice chatting and e-mail for a
common man is today one of the hottest computer application. Almost all
computer users today use the Internet in some way or the other.
Java
manages software updates
by
Sumesh Raizada
WHILE
browsing through Web pages, did you ever wonder how was it possible to
incorporate sound or moving pictures on the Web and how 3D graphics,
pictures or text materials appear together on a page. These may have been a
matter of curiosity for most of us, but not for those who are trained and
qualified to design Web pages.
RBI guidelines on
e-banking
by
S.C. Dhall
BOTH
banks and virtual incorporated outside the country and having no physical
presence in India will not, for present, be permitted to offer Internet
banking services to the Indian residents.
eBay
bans sale of WTC memorabilia
THE
online auction site eBay has banned the sale of all World Trade Center and
Pentagon memorabilia after everything from chunks of rubble and bits of
glass to videotapes of the disaster appeared for sale within hours of
Tuesday's kamikaze passenger plane attacks.
Yahoo!
and FIFA sign deal
US
Internet company Yahoo! Inc. and world soccer governing body FIFA have
signed a joint deal over the management and running of the official Web
sites for the 2002 and 2006 World Cups, Yahoo! said.
ON HARDWARE
War in gaming
platforms
by Yuka Obayashi
JAPANESE
game maker Sega Corp said it aimed to become the number one game software
maker in the world on the back of its future line-up of titles for leading
consoles.
IT
Bookshelf
Has capitalism ‘hijacked’
the Internet?
Review by
Peeyush
Agnihotri
Kids
Chat
Learn algebra with Cynthia
Newsscape
Gas and Net
Entertainment
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