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New York, May 19 (IANS) A study in the US has shown that about 20 percent of all American heads-of-households have never sent an e-mail and about 20 million households, or 18 percent, are without Internet access.

New Delhi, May 18 (IANS) If Ravi Singh, CEO of one of America's first internet electioneering sites, has his way, Indian political parties will be campaigning on the web in the next round of elections.

New Delhi, May 16 (IANS) Here's some good news for all you bloggers. If you want your blog writings to be published then here's an opportunity by Sulekha.com, a web portal.

Andy Greenberg, Forbes.com
As devices like the iPhone have demonstrated, a phone today is more than a phone: Beyond simple calls, handsets play music, take photos and serve up Web video of skateboarding dogs. Now banks and security researchers are hoping to squeeze another function into the wireless devices that people all over the world now carry: putting an end to identity theft.

The BlackBerry Bold may look like an iPhone wannabe but Research In Motion won't give up any customers without a fight.

Elizabeth Woyke, Forbes.com
Got a pink BlackBerry Pearl? Chances are, you're a busy, 30-something mother who wields the phone like an electronic Filofax. The Pearl's compact design, speedy access to e-mail, and electronic calendar and to-do list make it a perfect fit for on-the-go Gen X moms, says Jonathan Steuer, a vice president at cultural trends researcher Iconoculture.

Sramana Mitra, Forbes.com
Alchemy refers to a medieval science that turns metals into gold. As our planet depletes natural resources at a frantic pace, one brand of alchemy that will become critical to humanity's survival is technology that turns sea water into drinking water.

Mobile alerts, flashlights, heart monitors and global positioning data: cellphones are chock full of security features that protect us.

Elizabeth Woyke, Forbes.com
The Nokia 1200 will never win a beauty contest. Slightly clunky, with a basic candy bar shape, the phone is pure practicality, from its monochrome black-and-green screen to its plastic one-piece keypad. Industry commentators have been catty, describing it as "plasticky" and "sad-looking.

Gadgets we once thought were necessities are now things we can scrap. Of course, you might want to invest in a few replacements.

The latest laptop alternatives promise road warriors the ability to keep their computer light, tight and out of sight.

While the computer maker's flashy designs grab the attention, software has always been Apple's secret sauce.

The other day a colleague mentioned how he never ever went to an astrologer. 'Sara suspense khatam ho jayega (It will kill all the suspense). As I walked down the leafy golden pavement trying to match my steps with the cuckoo's song, his words came back to me.

WHEN NEWs of the Tiananmen Square massacre broke out in 1989, we were in the first year of our college with newspapers and scant television reports as our primary sources of information.

Out there in the blog world, there is a lot of humour, little nuggets that tickle the funny bone. So, on a rotten day when everything is going wrong, it might be a good idea to switch on the box and trawl through the labyrinths of the webbed world in search of a good joke that would lift the gray shadows.

The $50-billion opportunity for the business process outsourcing (BPO) industry that the NASSCOM-Everest study has revealed shows that India has established a fairly substantial lead over competing countries with a market share of 37 per cent ahead of Canada at 27 per cent and Philippines at 15 per cent.

Can a little-heard-of man from Hyderabad do the near-impossible for Microsoft's audacious gambit to catch up with Google in the most difficultterrain of all-search? Even as software giant Microsoft struggles to consummate its $44.6 billion unsolicited bid for Internet company Yahoo, one of the company's executives, Satya Nadella, is finding himself thrust into the unlikely spotlight.

China, often considered the world's manufacturing muscle, is strengthening its software and outsourcing businesses too. India, beware!

The avid, core gamer, hunched over the console, is quite a familiar entity to most marketers and has been fed with core action games regularly by players such as Sony. But now, newer consumer segments are emerging

In spite of the growing Internet connectivity, increasing awareness of the Right to Information act and a spurt in the funding of e-governance programmes, the digital divide between the government and its citizens only seems to be widening in India with the country's e-Government readiness ranking falling to 113 from 87 in 2005.