The writer, a defence and cyber security analyst, is former country head of General Dynamics
June 22, 2004 00:00 IST
The UPA government is replete with technocrats including, of course, Dayanidhi Maran, the communications and information technology minister...
May 06, 2004 00:00 IST
The BJP has highlighted its achievements in the Indian telecom sector in the India Shining ads, and has claimed that a revolution had been a...
March 03, 2004 00:00 IST
The schedule for elections for constituting the 14th Lok Sabha has just been announced. According to the Election Commission, the massive ex...
January 20, 2004 00:00 IST
One of the important aspects of the recently concluded SAARC Summit in Islamabad has been the call made by all the seven leaders for more ec...
December 23, 2003 00:00 IST
With January 2004 just days away, predictions are being made for the new year — particularly for the dynamic world of information commu...
November 28, 2003 00:00 IST
Microsoft recently announced cash awards of US$ 250,000 each for information leading to the arrest of the Sobig worm and Blaster virus write...
October 11, 2003 00:00 IST
Come October 14 and you will be unable to chat in MSN messenger, Microsoft’s chat services. Many in India and in some 30 odd countries ...
August 20, 2003 00:00 IST
The war on the mobile service provision has now entered a new and probably decisive phase. The Telecom Dispute Settlements and Appellate Tri...
July 08, 2003 00:00 IST
Prime Minister Vajpayee’s recent participation in the NASSCOM meet in Shanghai and the discourse it has set off on Indo-China IT cooper...
June 16, 2003 00:00 IST
India's information technology prowess is the cynosure of all eyes, albeit for different reasons. Developed nations still look to India as a...
April 03, 2003 00:00 IST
Flight 9W 406 between Mumbai and Delhi on 25 March on which two cabinet ministers were on board, one of them being Sahib Singh Verma has bec...
February 21, 2003 00:00 IST
Close on the heels of the new Homeland Security Department taking charge of all cyber security functions in the US, India is also positionin...
October 12, 2002 00:00 IST
There is a government proposal to issue microchip enabled machine-readable national identity cards for all citizens. The prime minister made...
August 14, 2002 00:00 IST
India and the US have collaborated in various fields over the last few years. While, on the diplomatic front, there has been far-reaching p...
June 26, 2002 00:00 IST
US Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld recently announced the possibility of placing US ground sensors on the LoC to check infiltration into t...
May 31, 2002 00:00 IST
Pakistan is not restricting itself to pushing terrorists across the border to India. It is active in other manners, both overtly and covertl...
May 07, 2002 00:00 IST
The explosive growth of cyberspace in the last few years has been characterised by anonymity, vastness and technology (AVT). The AVT factor ...
