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August 13, 2015, 4:48 AM IST
By Anjana Menon Google has always been the company that wants to change the world. This week, it set its sights higher by changing its company structure. Soon, Google, the search engine and online advertising…
August 13, 2015, 4:48 AM IST
July 17, 2015, 4:26 PM IST
Torture the data, and it will confess to anything, said Ronald H Coase, Nobel Laureate in Economics. That’s what big data does. Seen as a potential goldmine for software makers, it drives businesses to take…
July 17, 2015, 4:26 PM IST
May 26, 2015, 12:36 PM IST
The whole technology world is going gung-ho about Internet of Things (IoT) lately. In layman terms, IoT is the network of smart devices that can ‘talk’ to each other. According to Cisco estimate, by 2020…
May 26, 2015, 12:36 PM IST
May 11, 2015, 12:00 AM IST
A government decision on net neutrality is expected soon. Faisal I. Farooqui, founder-CEO of consumer review platform, MouthShut.com, is an advocate of an unrestricted internet. Speaking with Srijana Mitra Das, Farooqui discussed why net neutrality…
May 11, 2015, 12:00 AM IST
May 10, 2015, 10:04 AM IST
It is hard to believe that Google is only sixteen year old company. How did we look up stuff before we could Google it? Google is different. They do not have a Human Resources department….
May 10, 2015, 10:04 AM IST
April 23, 2015, 4:18 AM IST
Industrial 3-D printing is at a tipping point, about to go mainstream. “Additive manufacturing” is creating durable and safe products for sale to customers in moderate to large quantities. The beginnings of the revolution show…
April 23, 2015, 4:18 AM IST
April 22, 2015, 4:55 AM IST
By Eben Moglen & Mishi Choudhary The plot between Airtel, Reliance and Facebook to steal the Internet from a majority of Indians under the guise of helping them has collapsed. An outpouring of effective truth-telling…
April 22, 2015, 4:55 AM IST
April 20, 2015, 11:35 AM IST
You have an account on Twitter and use it to read stuff that people have to say. You look at their tweets and wonder how they can think of something clever and deep to say…
April 20, 2015, 11:35 AM IST
April 20, 2015, 12:00 AM IST
A lot of Indians like the internet the way it is now, going by the snowballing cyber campaign to preserve its neutral character. Email petitions to Trai, asking it not to cede the net to…
April 20, 2015, 12:00 AM IST
April 15, 2015, 3:20 PM IST
The recent uproar on net neutrality has demonstrated in no uncertain terms, the voice and power of the netizen community. On 27th March 2015, the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) put up on its…
April 15, 2015, 3:20 PM IST
March 22, 2015, 11:30 AM IST
Who should read this book? If you have a smartphone or have used email or have been on social media sites like Facebook you should read this book. After all “600,000 Facebook accounts are compromised…
March 22, 2015, 11:30 AM IST
March 8, 2015, 4:02 PM IST
Can women have successful careers in the tech world? The Economic Survey 2014-15 says the IT and ITeS sector including Business Process Management (BPM), continues to be one of the largest employers in the country,…
March 8, 2015, 4:02 PM IST
February 23, 2015, 1:14 PM IST
There are things we put down to romance in the digital era. Things like printing photographs, picking physical books over their e- cousins, or sending handwritten letters. As it turns out, sentimentality may just inadvertently…
February 23, 2015, 1:14 PM IST
February 11, 2015, 2:34 AM IST
By Amba Uttara Kak Two weeks ago, Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg and Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos announced the roll-out of internet.org, an application that allows users to access Facebook and a few other services…
February 11, 2015, 2:34 AM IST
January 24, 2015, 9:30 AM IST
It takes me half an hour to cover a 9 km commute and reach my office. In the evening when I am driving back home, the distance seems to have increased because it takes me…
January 24, 2015, 9:30 AM IST
December 21, 2014, 8:04 PM IST
Nowadays, there is an app for that, one is told quite frequently. Indeed, it seems that nowadays there is an app for everything. Apps that organize our lives, help us watch our diet and weight,…
December 21, 2014, 8:04 PM IST
December 7, 2014, 7:28 PM IST
That the selfie is some kind of a clue to the times we live in is difficult to argue with. Its ubiquity is everywhere, if one may be allowed to mirror the superfluous abundance of…
December 7, 2014, 7:28 PM IST
December 4, 2014, 12:01 AM IST
TIMES VIEW Can lead to apocalypse Rudroneel Ghosh Distinguished physicist Stephen Hawking`s warning that development of full-fledged, autonomous Artificial Intelligence (AI) could spell the end of the human race needs to be taken seriously. Despite…
December 4, 2014, 12:01 AM IST
December 3, 2014, 12:00 AM IST
We’ve had to get rid of our TV set, which was eight years old, and was acting up. Can’t you repair it? i asked the technician. He looked at me as though i’d morphed into…
December 3, 2014, 12:00 AM IST
November 21, 2014, 12:00 AM IST
Forget Da Vinci. Try cracking Da Tweenie Code. First, politics became an alphabet soup of initials after parties, like amoeba, divided to multiply. Then, Bollywood abbreviated to HAHK, K3G and HNY. Now, those not old…
November 21, 2014, 12:00 AM IST
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