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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.

Last week, VS Karthik, a 21-year-old medical student in Kerala committed suicide after a tiff with his girlfriend by hanging himself from a ceiling fan. What's bizarre: he chose to webcast his suicide live to his girlfriend back in Delhi.

Marriages are made in heaven but materialise online. Over the webcam. Saying 'I Do' online is the latest trend to catch the fancy of the tech-savvy generation caught between work shifts and long distance relationships.

It was International Women's Day and one of India's most enterprising women entrepreneurs was taking us on a whirlwind tour of her ventures in education. The Study Hall in Lucknow is a school like any other on the surface but reflects the quality that the caring Principal and her team could generate in the pedagogy process which uses technology to deliver subjects like mathematics and biology.

Helion Venture Partners, an India-focused venture fund company , has invested in its second fund worth $210 million. The company invests in technology driven businesses or those in the consumer space with a focus on sectors such as outsourcing, Internet, mobile and technology products, retail services, education and financial services.

If it weren't for YouTube, a man wearing a little black dress and a pearl necklace would be unlikely to get a question in for the leader of the Spanish opposition.

A Moroccan computer engineer appeared in court on Friday charged with setting up a Facebook account in the name of King Mohammed's brother.

Internet connections across the country hit by damage to undersea cables in Asia have been repaired and services are back to normal, industry officials said on Thursday. But lingering doubts remained as some complained of slow Net traffic.

Russia's Union of Journalists said on Tuesday a proposal to tighten state regulation of Web sites was a "hopeless" holdover from the Soviet era.

The arrival of a truly mobile Web, offering a new generation of location-based advertising, is set to unleash a "huge revolution", Google Inc Chief Executive Eric Schmidt said on Friday.

The high-definition DVD format war has not been won, at least not in the minds of the retailers.
Last week, Time Warner Inc's Warner Bros studio said it would exclusively release high-definition DVDs in Blu-ray format instead of Toshiba Corp's competing HD DVD technology.

Amazon.com Inc, the world's largest Web retailer, launched Askville.com, an information-sharing Web site where users can ask questions and answer queries from others, on Thursday.

Viacom Inc's MTV Networks is eyeing an expansion of its myMTV mobile video social network to other countries beyond Japan, said MTV's president for global digital media, Mika Salmi, on Wednesday.

The United States is working to prevent attacks on military, government and private computer networks, but any aggressive response raises legal, civil rights and policy questions that should be addressed, a U.S. military adviser said on Tuesday.

Google Inc is preparing a service that would enable users to store data from their personal hard drives on its computers, the Wall Street Journal reported Tuesday in its online edition.

Picture having an Olympian view of millions of photos the world's photographers and cameraphone users have produced over the last day.

Online retailer Amazon.com Inc plans to unveil its closely-guarded electronic book reader in New York on Monday, a source told Reuters.

Teachers need extra protection from pupils who abuse or humiliate them on "rate my teacher" Web sites, a British union leader said on Thursday.

A Los Angeles man on Friday admitted infecting 250,000 computers and stealing the identities of thousands of people by wiretapping their communications and accessing their bank accounts.