12 billion mobiles in the next 10 years (Comment)
byOne kilogram. That’s what it weighed, the bulky prototype used for a wireless phone call by a Motorola engineer in 1973. For the real…
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Mobile users in Middle East victims of cyber crime: Study
byAbu Dhabi, April 7 (IANS/WAM) Lack of precaution by mobile users can have unfortunate consequences. Close to two in five mobile users in the…
Silent Conversations and the Coming of Internet Devta
byBefore the Internet, such things happened only between Man and God, in a language that had no script, like the Revelations. But while these…
British Library to archive billions of webpages
byLondon, April 6 (IANS) Embarking on the biggest expansion of its archiving power since 17th century, the British Library intends to record the country’s…
Costa Rica to install Internet access in public schools
bySan Jose, April 6 (IANS/EFE) The government of Costa Rica announced Friday a plan to install access to the Internet in every public school…
Brazil seeks to measure energy from solar explosions
bySao Paulo, April 6 (IANS/EFE) A team of Brazilian scientists plan to use a pair of stratospheric balloons to study the energy produced by…
Five Odisha students head to US for aero-design competition
byBhubaneswar, April 6 (IANS) At least five students from Odisha’s KIIT University are set to participate in an annual aero-design competition to be held…
Advanced Sukhoi to be unveiled in Paris show
byMoscow: Russia will unveil its most advanced aircraft, the Sukhoi Su-35 Flanker fighter jet and the Ka-52 Alligator helicopter gunship, at the Paris air…
Roscosmos to join NASA in asteroid capture mission
byMoscow, April 5 (IANS/RIA Novosti) Russia’s space agency Roscosmos may join NASA’s ambitious mission to capture an asteroid and place it in high lunar…
BJP’s Tarun Vijay meets home, defence ministers over Google Mapathon
byNew Delh: BJP leader Tarun Vijay Friday met the home and defence ministers to voice his concern over Google holding a Mapathon competition, saying…