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  • Net talk

    IBM hopes to make Internet telephony more attractive. When personal computers (PCs) convert speech into data packets, two people can talk over the Internet. But there is no way of sending a ringing

  • Virus hunted

    Computer viruses flourish on the Internet. Every time a file is downloaded, there is a chance that a virus is taking a ride. Some viruses even hide in e-mail attachments.

  • No time to lose

    The Internet has even changed the way we compute. Search for Extraterrestrial Life (SETI) is planning to send the data gathered by the radio telescope at Arecibo, Puerto Rico, to the general

  • Caught in a net

    Caught in a net

    A recent coup on the Internet, which broke the monopoly held by the Netherland's state publishers over information, throws light on what is being referred to as Internet activism

  • For a whole new world

    For a whole new world

    The cyber revolution is swamping the world. But what is it engendering - concept of the global village or information elitism?

  • For your eyes only

    In the past, 'encryption' was a term closely related to espionage, which entailed the cloak-and-dagger despatch of secretly coded messages by spies from behind enemy lines. But in the modern world

  • Superhighway or superhypeway?

    The Internet has been doubling its size every year since 1988: it is the fastest growing communications medium ever. More than 40 million people have access to it today. Over 110 countries have

  • Network

    Private access Two Purdue University students discovered a major flaw in the highly-regarded Kerberos software, developed by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and

  • MONEYMAKERS

    COMPUTERESE IN CHINESE: When in China, turn Chinese. The US- based Microsoft Corp seems to have no qualms about following this strategy. It has just set Chineselanguage standards for its

  • Easy communication

    Potential Internet users are often intimidated by, its complexity. different protocols, data formats and applications needed to make full use of the information and services. The Financial

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