Blanket ban

Study time

Claimed by slang

Collateral damage

Car named Street View

Arabian rights

I don’t want my fingerprints taken

Resisting biometric data  

Vignettes from our natural world

www.environmentalgraffitti.com

The physical Net

Book>> Tubes, A Journey to the Center of the Internet • by Andrew Blum • Penguin • Rs 499

Cyber dystopia

Book>> The Filter Bubble, What the Internet is Hiding From You • by Eli Pariser • Penguin Books • US $25

The computer plays postman

India seems ready to cash in on electronic mail, a cheap and fast way of communication in which messages are exchanged through computer networks.

Expedition.com

Click here to participate in an archaeological expedition some 2,000 km away from home. Thanks to the Internet, 30 Australian students will go on-…

Website review: Going 'rural'

www.ruralnaukri.com proclaims itself as a "'Haat' where buyers and sellers of rural talent meet". But if you think it is entirely to do with …

Website review: www.rainwaterharvesting.org

Summer is here and with it water wars at neighbourhood taps and tanker stops. To find a way out of scarcity, visit the Centre for Science and …

Virtual dystopia

Book>> Cyburbia, The Dangerous Idea That's Changing How We Live And Who We Are by James Harkin Hatchette India Rs 495

World peace, virtually

BOOK>> THE FACEBOOK EFFECT • by David Kirkpatrick, Simon and Schuster • Indian Price Rs 450

COVID-19: Access to devices a must for bridging the digital divide

Most conversations on digital divide revolve around network availability or supply-side factors, but absence of an Internet-enabled handset …

COVID-19 lockdown highlights India’s great digital divide

Despite the rise in wireless users in recent years, urban and rural India are miles apart in their online presence

As told to Parliament (December 15, 2021): Mobile network connectivity in over 95% villages

All that was discussed in the House through the day

Apple loses its track

Apple>> Maps • Australia

Iran’s YouTube

Video sharing>> Persian culture • Iran

A respite

Censorship>> Internet • Tajikistan

Be cautioned

Internet>> Google • China/West Asia

Bloggers aren’t journos

Bloggers>> Lawsuit • US

Bitter enemies, virtual friends

Embassy>> Politics• The US/Iran