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  1. Man tweets about Karti Chidambaram, gets arrested

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    / October 31, 2012 / 2 Comments
    After the Chinmayi incident, one more arrest related to tweeting. A small scale industrialist was arrested on the charge of posting `offensive’ messages on the social networking site Twitter against Karti Chidambaram, son of the Union Finance minister. The man was subsequently let off on bail. Karti had filed a...

  2. America’s `virtual’ elections?

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    / October 26, 2012 /
    This morning Sunanda Vashist from Houston, USA alerted about Michelle Obama’s Twitter handle sending out direct messages to everyone asking them to vote for husband Barack Obama. “Use your twitter influence to help turn out the vote. Follow/retweet @Obama2012 …” the message read. Though I must add that when I...

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    / October 23, 2012 /
    Lessons for those who get abusive on Twitter, without realising it is just meant to be a social networking site. Well-known playback singer Chinmayi Sripada filed a complaint with the cyber crime cell of Chennai Police on October 18, alleging that certain individuals had passed vulgar comments about her and...

  4. Jwala scores over Saina

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    / July 19, 2012 /
    Saina Nehwal is obviously one of the strongest medal contenders for India in badminton at the London Olympics. But netizens in India are searching more for fellow shuttler Jwala Gutta. The doubles player seems to be driving the majority of internet traffic on Google searches. Using Google Insights for search in...

  5. Touch Me Not

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    / July 9, 2012 /
    The world is divided into two kinds of people – those who love touchscreen phones and those who don’t. Naturally, having been a hopeless technophobe since as long back as I can remember, I belong to the second category. And life is really tough for people like us now, because...

  6. Schrodinger’s Baby

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    / June 23, 2012 /
    Today, I would like to introduce to you all the 2.0 version of the legendary Schrodinger’s Cat. It is Schrodinger’s Baby. You place a baby – preferably aged less than five years – in a borewell ideally at a depth of 40 to 50 feet. Leave the baby there for...

  7. Is GVMC really logged on to Vizag’s problems?

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    / May 22, 2012 /
    This site (gvmc.gov.in) appears to be made more for the Greater Visakhapatnam Municipal Corporation (GVMC) rather than for the public for whom the corporation exists. GVMC collects taxes from us and is supposed to serve the citizens of Vizag. Its website should therefore be informative and designed to help the public. While...

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    / May 17, 2012 /
    Facebook’s IPO, reported to the biggest public floatation for an Internet company, opens Thursday, 17th May. The eight-year-old company is expected to raise nearly USD 16 billion, with sale of 421 million equity shares. Facebook will be listed on the NASDAQ stock exchange on Friday. According to Forbes, an American...

  9. Tsunami alert at Kudankulam N-plant

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    / April 11, 2012 /
    One of the places where an alert was sounded post the earthquake in Indonesia and fears of a tsunami hitting the Indian coast was the nuclear power plant at Kudankulam. According to reports from local sources, there was a sense of panic, given that people in Tamilnadu have faced the...

  10. Kerala home to India’s first IT incubator

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    / March 28, 2012 /
    The country’s first IT incubator has taken root in Kerala. Startup Village will incubate 1000 startups over the next 10 years from college campuses and start the search for a billion dollar start up from the state. The Startup Village will focus on IT product companies. Infosys co-founder, Kris Gopalakrishnan...

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