How the Internet was born, 25 years ago

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......

Is the future of education leaving India in the dust?

The digital revolution in education is coming at a most opportune time for India. Leadership in this is something India could seize, if only it had the vision, feels Rajeev Srinivasan. Part I: Why......

Unix's revenge

I was personally rather astonished to hear that Sun Microsystems and Microsoft had buried the hatchet in their long running war of words. This startled me, because I had become used to Sun being......

India as a punching bag

You have to time it right to get the full impact. I happened to, purely by chance: for I showed up at 8 am and had to wait in the glass-encased security building for about half an hour before my......

Tough job for Adobe's Indian boss

As Adobe inches towards the $3 billion revenue mark, a new Indian-born CEO, Shantanu Narayen, replaces Bruce Chizen. He will be joining Adobe's board of directors on December 1 this year. He's not......

2 Indians in 25 most influential CTOs list

IBM's Ravi Arimilli and Juniper Networks' Pradeep Sindhu are amongst the 25 most influential senior IT managers in the world, according to InfoWorld's CTO forum.The main objective of CTO Awards,......

Newsmaker: Shantanu Narayen

He was a year junior to cricket commentator Harsha Bhogle at the upmarket Hyderabad Public School, and the duo made a crack debate team. The debating skills have obviously come in quite handy for......

Gurindar Sohi in patent row with Intel

The University of Wisconsin has sued Intel Corp, the world's largest computer chipmaker, after the two failed to agree on licensing a patent related to microprocessors. The school's research arm......

World Cup 2019: When coaches took over

'This World Cup is likely to be much more a clash of plans than of talent,' says Devangshu Datta. IMAGE: Head Coach Ravi Shastri and Captain Virat Kohli confer after rain stopped play during the......