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by
Peeyush Agnihotri
Auctions on the Internet are a powerful way to transact
business. Sellers are able to convert their products into cash
and buyers are able to find goods at desirable prices.
IT'S
an open neelaam ghar with a keyboard cord attached. For
the uninitiated, these are online auctions. Net surfers are in
for unheard of deals. The mouse has replaced the hammer and for
the Net surfers there is a whole array of products to choose
from. Auctions on the Internet are a powerful way for sellers
and buyers from geographically distant locations to transact.
Sellers are able to convert their products into cash and buyers
are able to find goods at desirable prices. Take the case of
Mohit Malhotra. He "downloaded" a Nikon camera last
month from one of the auction portals for an unimaginable price.
"In the market, this SLR click thing would have cost me a
fortune. I got it cheap that way," he says. |
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Where
have they gone?
by Bernhard
Warner
Stock
market disarray has silenced one of the Internet's most consistent
voices - scores of amateur investment 'pundits' who flocked to online
message boards with their own brand of financial advice. Discussion
groups dedicated to stocks - a reliable cache of oddball tips during
the bull market run - have grown eerily quiet since the glory days.
The Net has now become home to a hard core of wiseacres, bemoaning
slumping markets and slipping in advice for good measure.
Of computer & new
society
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Camgirls give
new dimension to paedophilia
David Rowan
KERRY
was sent £ 70 ($ 105) worth of apparels last week, bought at Playboy’s
online store by a man she had never met. The same day, she received a
£ 45 cheque at her home in Lancashire, northern England, to pose at
her Webcam "and do absolutely nothing." In the 10 months since her
personal Website went live, its sultry photo galleries and provocative
‘livecam’ shots have brought Kerry so much attention - and gifts
ranging from lingerie to CDs — that she now plans to build a premium
‘members’ area’ that she hopes will earn her a full-time living. |
New
superhighway on cards
Rajiv Kapoor
TRAFFIC!
We all deal with it on the roadway and the Internet. And we all get
frustrated when too much traffic slows us down - in our cars or in
cyberspace. But did you know a new information superhighway is under
construction? It is called Internet II. The university community has
joined hands with the government and industry to accelerate the
Internet development for research.
 Unravel
secrets of Windows
A. Khanna
BORED
with the way you use Windows or is it the other way round! Most of the
users simply follow the known path and do not try to ‘discover’
what Windows actually has in store for them. Here are a few
instructions that besides giving you a fresh perspective on Windows
will leave you begging for more.
The
Web at work
Satinder
Ahuja
THE
Internet is a network of networks and is the world largest distributed
system. It is a worldwide mesh or matrix of thousands of networks,
owned and operated by thousands of people in hundreds of countries,
all interconnected by about 9,000 ISPs (Internet Service Providers).
No single organisation controls the Internet, not the biggest ISPs.
The Internet is different from other major basic services like
telephony, electricity etc. Four important services provided by the
Internet are Telnet, FTP (File Transfer), mail and general
client/server facilities etc.
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IT
WIT
by
Sandeep Joshi |
This is the special computer fragrance to allure my husband! |
Dial
Ludhiana for e-mails and SMS
Naveen S.
Garewal
E-mails,
e-greetings and SMS would no longer be the privilege of those who own
a computer. A Ludhiana lad has come up with a novel service that
allows you to send e-mails, e-greetings and even SMS messages over a
phone landline.
E-mail
individually for better response
WHEN
it comes to sending e-mails, personal touch is the best because the
more persons the message is copied to, the less likely the recipients
will reply.
Bow-wow
implants
BANGKOK
authorities are to put microchip implants in pet dogs carrying data
about their owners in a bid to curb the Thai capital’s rising
population of strays, officials said last week.
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EXPORT DESTINATION OF INDIAN
SOFTWARE INDUSTRY
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