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Las Vegas
is just a click away for Namblers
by Peeyush
Agnihotri
THERE
has been a change in trend this Divali. Gambling, an illegal activity in India,
is going off the course. Agreed this festive season, a majority of persons are
gambling offline in close coordinated groups, yet in what could be called a
trend indicator, a number of them are preferring cyber cafes to try their hands
at Nambling, a sobriquet for Net gambling.
Joints in
cable can hinder connectivity
by Vipul
Verma
HUMAN
beings biggest friend is a computer, in modern times. Today the world has become
a vast network of computers spread across the globe. Thus any computer, which is
being used for surfing the Internet is in a way a part of the networking.
Design on
computer, be seen on TV
by Sumesh
Raizada
RITU
BERI, Rohit Bal, J.J.Walia, hanu Athaiya! These are some of the names that can
easily be identified with the glamorous world of fashion designing even by
school children. Presently, all over the world, fashion industry is among the
most sought after and growing industries and has therefore become synonymous
with the culture and development of a particular country.
2,000 crore
plan for better IT workforce
by V
.P. Prabhakar
A
national programme for HRD in IT is being launched by the Union Ministry of
Human Resources Development, for which an investment of Rs 2000 crore till the
end of the Tenth Five Year Plan is envisaged. India
today faces the challenge of bridging the gap between demand and supply of IT
workers to make the most of the opportunity that the recent advances in
information technology have provided to the country.
IT didn’t come
to their rescue
by
Narayanan Madhavan
NEWSPAPERS
in the southern city of Bangalore, India’s answer to Silicon Valley,
often carry prominent advertisements to entice talented software
engineers, despite a global technology slowdown.
Indian
techies get lessons in post-attack etiquette
by Anshuman
Daga
FOR
thousands of US-based ethnic Indians, it is not just business that has been
affected by the September 11 attacks on the USA. Employers have turned cautious
after some Asian ethnic groups including Indians fell prey to suspicion and
barbs after the attacks.
E-mail
deluge hits real work
by John
Naughton
THE
days when US bond traders and media power-dressers were pleased to find white
powder in envelopes are apparently over. As the backlog of snail-mail mounts in
the US, and people all over the world begin to look suspiciously at every packet
that arrives in the post, the attractions of e-mail has become more tempting by
the day.
On Hardware
Athlon XP processor offers better audio and video editing
THE
AMD last week announced the launch of the new AMD Athlon™ XP processor, the
world’s highest-performance processor for desktop PCs, in India. The AMD also
announced the plans to drive an initiative to develop a reliable processor
performance metric that PC users can trust.
IT
Bookshelf
'Bible' that teaches Java
applets
Kids
Chat
Crackers online for pollution-free Divali
Newsscape
Ad spending slashed
Compuquiz
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