Ajit Balakrishnan on how the Web could return to its original egalitarian goals.
World Wide Web Consortium, engaged in development of common protocols on the web and ensuring interoperability, on Thursday opened its office in India - its 15th in the world.
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India's digital world has witnessed tremendous growth in the past decade.
People, who indulge in spreading hatred and venom through the world wide web, constitute a small minority, but that is not a valid argument for ignoring their activities, writes B Raman
Talk to new-age travellers and they'll swear by the Internet to plan their holidays. Shwetal Rai explores five ways you can use it to organise your dream vacation.
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Any curious mind, the court observed, can access and download such content from the internet, which, by itself, is not a crime.
Former President APJ Abdul Kalam on Wednesday launched the Machine translation (MT) systems, also called content multiplier tools, developed with funding from TDIL (Technology Development for Indian Languages) programme at the 20th International World Wide Web conference in Hyderabad.
Nearly two decades after he invented the world wide web, British scientist Sir Tim Berners -Lee has admitted that "forward slashes" in Internet addresses "were a mistake".
The Golden Globes red carpet is making a splash all over the world wide web, thanks to the fashionable star attendees of the night.
The author pleads to Potter fans to preserve the secrecy of the last book.
In the future, the Internet is almost certain to look more realistic, interactive, and social -- a lot like a virtual world.
One of the biggest technology breakthroughs, the Internet impacts the lives of billions of people across the world.
Busy daters will use AI tools to save time and avoid awkward conversations. Two in 10 daters turn to AI for unbiased relationship advice, predicts rediffGURU Ravi Mittal, CEO, Quack Quack, an online dating Web site.
Although internet users face restrictions under Emergency, bloggers are having a free run denouncing the General for imposing Emergency and sundry other anti-democracy sins, while invoking Gandhi and Martin Luther King in order to steer the people's growing frustration on a non-violent path.
Experts from a dating website have put together a list of faux pas of online dating, so read on if you want to meet with success.
E-selling of idols of Goddess Durga is catching up with a few doing brisk business through the World Wide Web.
Thanks to the World Wide Web, it is easy to detect plagiarism, as a former editor of a leading Delhi newspaper learnt to his cost a few years ago.
Researchers at the University of Leipzig in Germany have carried out a study and found that an email address may speak volumes about the character of the person who created the unique online identification.
Don't forget to scan the site for authenticity
Given the cut-throat competition in the FM radio space, radio companies are always on the look out for newer, untapped areas. And perhaps that is the reason why major radio stations such as Big FM, RadioCity and Fever FM have descended on the World Wide Web as well as the mobile platform.
Suddenly, the legendary advertising line -- a diamond is forever -- is losing its shine.
"Under the Declaration of 1789 (founding principles of the Republic set down after the French Revolution), every man is presumed innocent until proven guilty. The Internet is a fundamental human right that cannot be taken away by anything other than a court of law, only when guilt has been established there," the Constitutional Council in France has ruled.
This, despite a 10-million-pound security operation featuring an army of guards, satellite tracking systems and legal contracts.
Unique, over the edge, thought provoking and reaching out to innumerable people around the world, virtually, with the World Wide Web as her gallery and IT technology as her medium, 28-year-old Shilpa Gupta is going places and has already made a mark
People in India are taking onto the world wide web in a big way outpacing anyone else across the globe -- including big brothers like the US, China, Japan and Germany in terms of the online population.
'I often wondered while watching the film/trilogy, what if Durga had lived. What if Ray made The Durga Trilogy.' Sandip Roy looks back at Pather Panchali's Durga and the woman who brought her alive, Uma Dasgupta.
Where I see the internet having had the maximum impact on our lives is when it comes to media and the common man's ability to participate in the media machine.
While Indian telecom czar Sunil Mittal's Bharti did not share deal details, UK Business Secretary Alok Sharma said his government and Bharti Global, will provide $500 million each.
We asked colleagues, present and past, to reflect on a man who has made such a difference to their lives and careers. Here it is then, a rich collection of memories that offer enchanting glimpses of the enigmatic Ajit Balakrishnan.
'Everyone knows the money the stars are asking for is absurd.'
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