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  1. AP websites under attack

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    / February 21, 2012 / Leave a comment
    After 21 Andhra Pradesh government websites were hacked last week, more attempts were made to hack more websites over the weekend. The IT ministry says these attempts were made from Jakarta, Algeria and Turkey.  Fortunately, not much damage was done in the second wave of attempted hacking and many of...

  2. Meter podu in the south

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    / February 17, 2012 / 1 Comment
    Wonder if the notorious autorickshaw drivers will fleece you less but atleast you will be aware they are fleecing you. Meterpodu is a crowdsourcing tool to get approximate auto-rickshaw fares for cities like Chennai, Bangalore, Hyderabad, Coimbatore and Mysore. Log on to the site, punch in your details of start and...

  3. This is what you call a mobile revolution !

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    / February 16, 2012 / 1 Comment
    By the end of 2012, the number of mobile-connected devices will exceed the number of people on earth. This is the major finding of the Cisco Visual Networking Index whose global mobile data traffic forecast has been released.  Average smartphone usage tripled in 2011, and though smartphones represent only 12...

  4. It’s a Sony!

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    / February 3, 2012 / 2 Comments
    Sony, the highly respected Japanese electronics company, is in big trouble. In 2011, it has had fourth straight year of losses.  It has even fired its American CEO Howard Stringer and brought in his place a Japanese Kazuo Hirai. Sony, which started life as a transistor radio manufacturer, was so named...

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    / January 25, 2012 /
    When Prime Minister Manmohan Singh decided to get on to twitter, he would not have contended with @ipoonampandey. The model who hit the headlines when she offered to strip naked if the Indian team won the World Cup in April 2011, welcomed the PM in a manner that would not...

  6. Mahesh Bhupathi `skypes’ with Lara & daughter

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    / January 21, 2012 / Leave a comment
    This one is a first. Tennis player got to see his newborn daughter from Melbourne, where he is playing the Australian Open, via skype. He tweeted : “just spoke to @DuttaLara and baby on Skype. they got to watch the match on TV in the hospital.” According to Raveena Tandon, the baby...

  7. Kerala’s e-toilets

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    / January 21, 2012 / Leave a comment
    My first reaction is I hope they would work even at the time of the frequent hartals and bandhs in Kerala. The first state in India to establish e-toilets, 450 of them by the end of March, promises that they would be on par with health and hygiene standards of...

  8. Rajinikanth is online, while offline

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    / January 20, 2012 / Leave a comment
    Taking the adage that Rajinikanth can do just about everything, a website has decided to do precisely that. http://www.desimartini.com/allaboutrajni.htm is a site that will run only if you disconnect your internet connection.  How is it? !! 

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    / January 18, 2012 /
    You cannot make friends or poke anyone if you are IIT Madras campus. That’s because the institution has blocked Facebook on campus. But not because of any moral hangups but because of the network that is getting clogged as a result. The Times of India reports that it is strange that...

  10. Email of 258 Muslims under survelliance in Kerala?

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    / January 17, 2012 / Leave a comment
    If the same had happened in Karnataka or Gujarat, there would have been a national furore by now. A Malayalam daily `Madhyamam’ has alleged that email of 258 prominent Muslims are being tapped by the intelligence wing of the Kerala police. The chief minister has now ordered a probe into...

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