They may not be forever emailing, facebooking or tweeting; but they are grateful to the internet. A whole generation that grew up on radio is rediscovering their lost pastime, of listening to faraway radio stations. Thanks to live online streaming, shortwave radio freaks are smiling again. They are bookmarking stations on web browsers and listening in while working on their laptops.

The hobby is called DXing: D for distance and X for the distant radio station. The fun was in tuning i ... Read more »

Cisco is in networking what Intel is in PC processors and Microsoft is in PC operating systems. So dominant that you don't often hear about its rivals. One company though that has successfully challenged Cisco in core areas of networking, such as routers and switches, is Juniper Networks. It was founded in 1996 by Pradeep Sindhu, a graduate from IIT, Kanpur, and a PhD from Carnegie Mellon University, US. Wikipedia describes him as "a technical visionary in the field of high performance and netwo ... Read more »

As your read this blog post, residents of the tiny hamlet of Tembhali in northern Maharashtra's Nandurbar district are creating history by getting their Unique ID Numbers. The UIDAI or Unique ID Authority of India's "Aadhar” project has been officially flagged off by the Prime Minister and UPA Chairperson Sonia Gandhi and the world's largest IT project is all set to roll.


For those interested in the geekier aspects of the project, the tech can broadly be divided into three areas ... Read more »