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......
It has been startling and brutal, the change in California's fortunes, especially that ofthe Silicon Valley. Just three years ago, it was the center of the universe, its so-called 'New Economy'......
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......
Necessity is certainly the mother of invention. Gone are the days when we used to stand in long queues to pay our utility bills. In came Internet and along with it the online payment mode that has......
Computers Today computers are an integral part of our lives, both at work and home. Take the rediff biz quiz and find how much you know about this very essential gadget. Biz Quiz is best viewed in......
Ever since Neal Stephenson published Snow Crash in 1992, the virtual world he described in his seminal dystopian novel has been the Holy Grail for a generation of tech whizzes. The metaverse, as......