Happy Birthday Internet!

Today is the 39th Birthday of the Internet.
April 7, 1969: Birth of that thing we call the Internet
 1969: The publication of the first “request for comments,” or RFC, documents paves the way for the birth of the internet.
April 7 is often cited as a symbolic birth date of the net because the RFC memoranda contain [...]

Vir Sanghvi Blasts the Communists

He actually called the CPI(M) as ‘thugs and murderers’ for the massacre of innocents in Nandigram and infact he goes on to draw parallels with Mao and Stalin and the finest traditions of ‘global communism’.
One wonders how long  it is before Vir Sanghvi is denounced as a “counter-revolutionary” and a “closet communalist” by his leftist [...]

Pakistan Implements Mobile Number Portability

Pakistan has implemented Mobile number portability across all carriers. While at the same time DoT in India under pressure from the Cellphone companies has virtually shelved the plan which would have benefited hundreds of millions of subscribers across the country.
Number portability allows a customer to move from one mobile service to another within GSM, and [...]

Google’s Monopoly Of the Internet

In a series of articles on ZDNet Donna Bogatin analyses whether Google has come to monopolise the Internet.
Is Google the Internet?

The ramifications of Google’s 50%+ search market share permeate the Web’s entire ecosystem.
 
In “Scoring Google on quality” I discuss the significant influence Google has on the proprietary content of literally millions of third-party Websites.
 
Every [...]

US Senate Bill Aims to Plug H1B Loopholes

Senate Bill gives Americans preference for Tech Jobs
Just before Congress departed for its spring recess at the end of last week, Sens. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) introduced a bill–which appears to be the first of its kind in the Senate–designed to curb abuse of the controversial worker visa system.
“Our immigration policy [...]

UN Watch Blasts the UNHRC

And see the intolerance of the UNHRC to any criticism of its conduct and the threat to ban the UN Watch representative’s speech. This has become a stalinist organisation through and through dominated by the same third world dictatorial thugs from many parts of Asia, Africa, the Arab world and latin [...]