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Thiruvananthapuram, July 12 (IANS) Panchayati Raj Minister Mani Shankar Aiyar inaugurated the country's longest broadband terrestrial education grid connecting the Indian Institute of Information Technology and Management (IIITM-Kerala) and Nagaland University here Saturday.

London, July 12 (ANI): Security experts fear that internet giant Google's Street View project, a follow-up to the popular Google Earth that will let people view their home on the net closer up than ever before, may end up helping burglars in planning their next job.

Brian Caulfield, Forbes.com
Confession: It's been easy to warn folks away from buying an iPhone this year. A newer, better phone was clearly on the way. And last month Apple proved the predictions true by introducing a cheaper model loaded with GPS and a zippier wireless connection that will go on sale Friday, July 11.

Melbourne, July 10 (ANI): Australian experts have developed a new technology that they claim can make web surfing 100 times faster in the near future.

London, July 9 (ANI): Computer giants like Microsoft, Sun, and Cisco are distributing new software to tackle a major security glitch in the internet addressing system.

Kathmandu, July 8 (IANS) Though their romance landed criminal mastermind Charles Sobhraj, 64, and his 20-year-old fiancee Nihita Biswa in a raging controversy, it has proved to be a golden goose for a bunch of enterprising techies.

Melbourne, July 7 (ANI): Carmakers in the US and across Europe are vying to be the first to launch a vehicle with the facility of wireless Internet onboard.

Helsinki (Finland), July 6 (IANS) The scientist who invented DNA fingerprinting in 1984 can't help but see the lighter side of the technology and says it has acquired an entertainment angle now, given the high-profile cases it is used for.

Bangalore, July 4 (IANS) Can India make the most out of its investments in scientific research to spur its growth and promote domestic talent through the Open Access route, a global expert in the field says.

Sydney, July 3 (ANI): More and more Computer Science students in Australia are turning to programmers in countries like India to have their assignments completed cheaply, and university staff say that they are powerless to detect and prevent such acts.

Washington, July 2 (ANI): A new study suggests that firms using personalised marketing e-mails containing people's names, hobbies, and other personal information to pitch sales may be at risk of losing prospective customers.

Panaji, July 1 (IANS) A blog run out of Goa anonymously has claimed credit for misleading large sections of the Indian media by planting an untrue story about a 'Nazi' being held along the state's border with Karnataka.

Who's tops in broadband access and cellular connectivity? Not the U.S., which barely makes it into the top 10.

Darmstadt (Germany), June 30 (DPA) A perfect couch potato set-up, with chips and the remote in easy reach, is pointless when there's nothing good on TV. But where a lack of good TV would have once meant running to the video store, nowadays home viewers can turn on their computer to download one of their favourite movies.

Hamburg, June 30 (DPA) One identical image appears on 20 computer monitors scattered across Germany: a dragon, with a group of figures in the foreground preparing to face off against him.

London, June 27 (ANI): Come 2009, and almost any word will be able to replace ".com" in a Web page address - thanks to a decision made by the organization that manages the technical underpinnings of the Web, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, (ICANN).

New Delhi, June 26 (IANS) Displaying its prowess in the field of information technology, India will be setting up an e-networking infrastructure in 53 African nations to share its expertise in the field of medicine and education.

London, June 26 (ANI): American and Italian researchers say that a technique called 'acoustic time reversal' can facilitate wireless broadband communication under the sea, a task that has been difficult to accomplish thus far because water molecules absorb radio waves.

London, June 25 (ANI): Want to know your post- cosmetic-surgery look without actually going under the knife? Well, then just log on to 'Lift Magic,' a website that provides an improved version of you at the click of a mouse.

Melanie Lindner, Forbes.com
In the Internet age, keeping pace means cultivating contacts at a mean clip.