On your palms

Better customer service, more convenience for the salesperson and on-the-spot deals are now possible with the help of palmtop computers

Archaeology goes hi-tech

Scholars need not touch ancient finds to study and store them, as computers take over the arduous task

Coppering the net

Fibre optic cables,, though touted as 21st century's big hope, can still be given a run by the copper wires in the race for providing ultra-fast …

Passwords passe

Even for adroit forgers, goings will become hard as a new fingerprint recognition system may replace passwords in the near future

Tiny buzzer

A cordless telephone, about the size of a cigarette pack is Japan's sensational new entry to the world-wide mobile phone bazaar. It is now just a …

Website review: http://earthtrends.wri.org/

A must-bookmark site for anyone interested in environmental and development issues. It offers up-to-date facts and figures as well as analyses of …

Not a dead society yet

For government's eyes only...

The Indian official machinery has excelled for 50 years in keeping secrets. But with the right to information campaign gaining momentum, people …

Biblophile On Web

Online>> www.booksy.in

Checking aberration

No horn or no horned rhinos?

Twitter grows conservative

Social Media>> Censorship • Twitter

Hysterical reaction

Radio>> Illness • Angola

Patent link

Computerised information

New words for hydrology

Mindless shopping

Thousand-in-one electron

HI-TECH COURTS

Journos access sci-tech

A new science and technology info system bails out mediapeople

Listing legume benefits

Communications network on the rails

Language no bar

Good news for diplomats. This new machine will give them respite from interpreters

CAUGHT IN A WEB

Beware, data thieves!