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March 25,1998 00:00:00 AM
NEW DELHI, March 24: Her name is Jennifer. She's 21 years old. She speaks with an American East Coast accent. And while she's on the job, sh...
Wed, Mar 25, 1998
March 17,1998 00:00:00 AM
Analyser is 18 years old. He wears faded tee shirts, jeans and Ray-Bans, not thick spectacles. He doesn't look too sharp. In fact, he has a ...
Tue, Mar 17, 1998
March 16,1998 00:00:00 AM
Analyser is 18 years old. He wears faded tee shirts, jeans and Ray-Bans, not thick spectacles. He doesn't look too sharp. In fact, he has a ...
Mon, Mar 16, 1998
March 02,1998 00:00:00 AM
Now that Motorola has embraced Java, the incantation brigade that would have us believe that soon you'll prefer to order your groceries over...
Mon, Mar 02, 1998
February 16,1998 00:00:00 AM
This election is a bore. No issues, no leaders, no agenda and, thanks to the glum types at Nirvachan Sadan, not much festivity. But it marks...
Mon, Feb 16, 1998
February 15,1998 00:00:00 AM
Yet again, India expects. But that's about all that the voter is certain of. He is not sure precisely what it expects of him. His mission ob...
Sun, Feb 15, 1998
January 01,1998 00:00:00 AM
Though people aren't feeling the tremors just yet, the future may remember 1997 as the year in which India actually became a card-holding me...
Thu, Jan 01, 1998
December 21,1997 00:00:00 AM
Detainee No. 872686/X often has bad nights. His lawyer says he is going though an identity crisis. He is afraid that, shut away in a French...
Sun, Dec 21, 1997
December 16,1997 00:00:00 AM
NEW DELHI, Dec 15: If you always wanted to know precisely how Sonia Gandhi's security detail is deployed, you needn't be afraid to ask any ...
Tue, Dec 16, 1997
December 08,1997 00:00:00 AM
Apart from riling a lot of English-speaking people one either side of the Atlantic, the au pair trial also reduced 21 news organisations to...
Mon, Dec 08, 1997
November 24,1997 00:00:00 AM
This autumn, almost unnoticed, a British phone company has been field-testing in a new technology that could electrify communications. They...
Mon, Nov 24, 1997
November 19,1997 00:00:00 AM
It is half a decade since the Fifty-second Constitution Amendment was first felt to be inadequate in handling political defections. The sam...
Wed, Nov 19, 1997
October 20,1997 00:00:00 AM
October 19: This summer, with a landmark judgment on the case American Civil Liberties Union versus Janet Reno, the US Supreme Court put a ...
Mon, Oct 20, 1997
October 06,1997 00:00:00 AM
Spam, originally, was just Spiced Pork and Ham, and lived a quiet life in unassuming little tins on store shelves. Then Monty Python brough...
Mon, Oct 06, 1997
October 02,1997 00:00:00 AM
I pressed the fire control... and ahead of me rockets blazed through the sky... -- Whaam! (1963)Early in the sixties, a silent revolution s...
Thu, Oct 02, 1997
August 25,1997 00:00:00 AM
Every other week, Internet analysts report that the Web is growing exponentially, so all the little people all over the world can close the...
Mon, Aug 25, 1997
July 28,1997 00:00:00 AM
If you own a company, decide to set up the Website mycompany.com and find that someone else has already registered it, are you seriously ex...
Mon, Jul 28, 1997
July 14,1997 00:00:00 AM
The computer virus as public enemy has been around since the early eighties, when America was invaded by a virus called Brain. Written by t...
Mon, Jul 14, 1997
July 03,1997 00:00:00 AM
Last week, in its first extended interpretation of the right to expression in many decades, the US Supreme Court delivered a landmark judgm...
Thu, Jul 03, 1997
June 30,1997 00:00:00 AM
Twenty minutes before I started writing this article, I fired up my X-mailer and started it downloading. Even at 900-plus speed, its still ...
Mon, Jun 30, 1997
June 20,1997 00:00:00 AM
More than a hundred years ago, Victorian England persuaded the rest of the world that the objective of the Industrial Revolution was to red...
Fri, Jun 20, 1997
June 16,1997 00:00:00 AM
If you're kitted out with a brace of speakers, a 28.8 modem, a good sound card, a vidcam and the right sort of computer grunt there could, ...
Mon, Jun 16, 1997
June 02,1997 00:00:00 AM
About a fortnight ago, Bill Gates was in Manhattan, showing off a network running on a Windows NT server. Solaris and old-fashioned command...
Mon, Jun 02, 1997
May 16,1997 00:00:00 AM
MUMBAI, May 15: When an Indian exporter goes looking for a trading partner in Europe, he takes a flight to London, Frankfurt or Milan, and ...
Fri, May 16, 1997
May 12,1997 00:00:00 AM
Vast, dense and sometimes mysterious, it looms and beckons like an unknown jungle. To the unlimited (sic), it may seem impenetrable, yet th...
Mon, May 12, 1997




