Ray Tomlinson, widely credited as the creator of email passed away at 74. Tomlinson invented direct email messages in 1971. Before his invention, electronic messages could be shared only on a very......
November 12 marked 25 years of the beginning of the World Wide Web. Shivanand Kanavi gives us the story of how it all began. 'Great Cloud. Please help me. I am away from my beloved and miss her......
'Biometric Aadhaar-based surveillance is not only about violation of privacy, but also about the treasure hunt for unprecedented financial surveillance and economic intelligence in the economic......
Why do Innovation Revolutions happen outside India, asks Ajit Balakrishnan. Illustration: Dominic Xavier/Rediff.com If you are born, raised and educated in India, high chances are that the......
Email turned 32 on Saturday but how many of us know that this quick method of message transfer was invented by Indian American V A Shiva Ayyadurai when he was just 14. In 1978, Ayyadurai created a......
This is the original location of the first ARPANET node at UCLA in Los Angeles. The original lab, which for years had been used as a classroom, has been recreated as it was in 1969, and will soon......
Bill Gates testified in front of the US House Committee on Science and Technology on Wednesday, making an impassioned plea to reorder the nation's educational priorities. Without a strong emphasis......
There are two ways to confront the pirating of copyrighted material on the Web. One, pioneered by the music industry and embraced now by Hollywood, throws lawyers in the path of digital progress.......