News Around WWW--2001219

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Indian software brands. Not many around, right? Wrong

Now there's a growing trend of top Indian IT companies launching their branded products, particularly in the banking and financial services software segment.

Read more at http://www.economictimes.com/today/18tech01.htm

Source: ET Newsbrief
Author:
E-Mail: webeditor@economictimes.com


President to Receive India's First Digital Certificate

India's first digital signature certificate will soon be issued to the country's top citizen--President K.R. Narayanan.

Read more at http://india.internet.com/news/article/0,1942,1281_515041,00.html

Source: india.internet.com


Return of the Native

SILICON Valley-based Indian Vinod Guptas $350 million company InfoUsa is soon going to open a software development centre in India.

More at http://www.economictimes.com/today/19tech02.htm

Source: ET News Brief
Author: Chitra Narayanan
E-Mail: webeditor@economictimes.com


Wipro's netKrackerä makes PC affordable

Monthly payments as low as Rs. 999 a month - choose your own configuration, FREE home delivery in less than 72 hours plus unlimited netKracker Internet access for a year!

Read more at http://www.netkracker.com

Source: www.webgyor.com
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Dotcoms take a trillion-dollar knock from 52-week highs

Going, going, now it's $1 trillion that's dot-gone. The combined market capitalisation of 200 listed Net companies in the US has fallen by almost $1 trillion ($1,000 billion) from their 52-week peaks.

http://www.economictimes.com/today/20lead01a.htm

Source: ET Newsbrief
Author:
E-Mail: webeditor@economictimes.com

Supercomputing Takes Yet Another Turn

Start-up companies are offering methods of doing supercomputing over the Internet on home and office computers that would otherwise be idle.

http://www.nytimes.com/2000/11/20/technology/20SUPE.html

Source: "Technology Headlines from NYTimes.com"
Author:
E-Mail: nytdirect@nytimes.com

ZDNet India & Yahoo! India to Launch Instant Messenger

ZDNet India has teamed up with Yahoo! India to develop a co-branded Yahoo! instant messenger (IM) service with ZDNet India to let India users to send instant messages to anyone around the world...

Read More at http://www.zdnetindia.com

Source:Melcole PR
Author:nssr
E-Mail: nssr@vsnl.com

Adobe touts Acrobat as e-book platform

Adobe Systems plans to make a major play to promote its Acrobat PDF reading format for portable devices and other e-book platforms in India.

Read more at http://www.techweb.com/wire/story/reuters/REU20001117S0004

Source:Mike's Digest


Deep Digging

Hundreds of millions of pages of useful information, including free searchable databases, fail to get into indices of search engines. This article links to resources for helping you navigate the invisible web.

Read it at http://www.llrx.com/features/mining

Source:Mike's Digest
Author:Mike Lean
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Now on campus: untethered Internet access

Colleges, at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Wesleyan University and others, are beginning to experiment with wireless technology that allows students with laptops to access the Internet without needing to plug in their computers.

Source:NYTimes.com and Mike's Digest
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E-Mail: nytdirect@nytimes.com


CYBERBUS - driving the information economy forward in Australia

Information Technology and the Arts, has launched the Cyberbus project which will provide new opportunities for isolated youth in regional Victoria to access the Internet and other online services.

Read more http://www.dcita.gov.au/nsapi-graphics/?MIval=dca_dispdoc&ID=5419&template=Newsroom

Source: Mike's Digest
Author: Mike Lean
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Online Fraud: Young Dogs, Same Old Tricks?

Online fraud is no more prevalent than offline fraud. According to officials at Visa and MasterCard, overall fraud rates are less than 1%,and the rate of fraud for internet transactions are roughly the same for offline transactions.

http://www.emarketer.com/etopics/articles/20001113_fraud.html

Source:I-Advertising Digest
Author:Claudine Thompson
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VSNL seeks proposals for cellular entry

Videsh Sanchar Nigam has asked investment bankers to come up with proposals for strategic alliances and even for outright acquisitions for its plans to enter the cellular business. It has also asked the government to give it a free entry into the 9fourth cellular operator slot, as compensation for taking away its monopoly ahead of schedule.

http://www.economictimes.com/today/20tech02.htm

Source: ET News Briefs
Author: Vivek Law
E-Mail: webeditor@economictimes.com.com


Price cuts spark portable PC price war

Compaq Computer and Sony have slashed notebook prices. Hewlett-Packard and Toshiba too are expected to match Compaq and Sony with price reductions or rebates.

http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1006-200-3770292.html

Source:CNET News.comAlan
Author:Joe Wilcox, Staff Writer
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Porn sites lure kids

Toy manufacturers have become the latest victims of internet pornographers, who are using toy brand names to lure children to their sites. The porn links crop up in these internet searches because the pornographers have inserted the toy names into "meta tags", the labels attached to web pages that identify the page's content, on their sites.

http://www.qlinks.net/items/qlitem9042.htm

Source:quicklinks Newsletter
Author:
E-Mail: quicklinks@egroups.com


The buck stops at the parent

Guide to child safety online by Sally Kinnes, in two parts - Part one: It's so easy to access online pornography and Part two: Spotting the wolves in sheep's clothing

http://www.qlinks.net/items/qlitem9061.htm

Source:The Sunday Times and quicklinks
Author:
E-Mail: quicklinks@egroups.com

The Particle Adventure

People have long asked, "What is the world made of?" and "What holds it together?" The Particle Adventure is an award-winning site that allows you to explore the world of funda-
mental particles and forces and then to investigate the experimental evidence and techniques.

http://www.particleadventure.org

Source:http://focusbest.net


The Thinking Man's Thesaurus (808 KB)

an ideal pop-up utility for when the right word is eluding you. Includes a powerful thesaurus and a dictionary which can check the spelling of individual words as well as provide you with a list of similarly spelt words.

For Win 3.1, Win 95, and Win98.

http://www.ozemail.com.au/~kevsol/sware.html

http://home.primus.com.au/ksol/ththes12.zip



Venture Capital Resources

Updated information on Venture Capital news with searchable directories of Venture Capital firms, Investment Banks, Business Plans and related services.

http://www.vfinance.com/

Source: E.N. Compass - encompass@futuramail.com


The Ultimate Computer Source

is an educational resource for the world of computing - info you wanted to know about computers, for both new and advanced users.

http://library.thinkquest.org/25018/

Source: Alan - ashandrr@ashlists.org


The Food Allergy Network

FAN is a nonprofit organization providing education about food allergy to peanuts, nuts, eggs, milk, wheat, soy, fish, and shellfish. Symptoms include hives, difficulty breathing, and eczema.

http://www.foodallergy.org/

Source: Fin der Keepoers - finderskeepers@teacher.org.hk

SoYouWanna

is fast becoming a vast know-it-all site offering in-depth how-to articles on thousands of topics- Internet users can browse this site before trying anything else.

http://www.soyouwanna.com/

Source: Ben Cooper owner-site-of-the-day@ashlists.org


Zooish

"Zooish has hundreds of real life animations. Full of animal, nature, earth, space, and science knowledge. Visit world zoos, explore nature's wonders, listen to animal sounds, see and hear dolphins and whales ...

http://www.zooish.com/

Source:finderskeepers@teacher.org.hk


ZapSpot

Enjoyable games, available by e-mail, a leader in the computer games industry.

http://www.zapspot.com/

Source: phastbyder@psynet.net

The Web Gallery of Art

is a virtual museum and searchable database of European painting and sculpture of the Gothic, Renaissance and Baroque periods (1150-1750), currently containing over 7,300 reproductions. Biographies, commentaries, guided tours are available.

http://www.kfki.hu/~arthp/index.html

Source: Ben Cooper - acquiring@qwest.net
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Health Scout

is a personal health agent that brings you daily news and information about your special interests. It's also a universe of resources that can put you in total command of your health, and your family's.

http://www.healthscout.com

Source: F O C U S Newsletter
http://www.kuca.com/focus/home.htm

Maps Index

Here can you find Web sites about Maps, city plans, route planer, ski maps, earthquake maps, satellite pictures, historical maps, weather maps, science maps from a round the world.

http://www.mapsindex.com/

Source: Pierre Borochaults - pierre@borochaults.com

Close All

This is the home site of a handy little freeware program called CloseAll,which does just that. When you are installing a new program and are advised to close all running programs, click the icon which CloseAll will put in your system tray, and any programs on the task bar will close. Items in the systems tray, including virus checkers, are not affected. Very useful.

http://web.tiscalinet.it/bk/freeware.html


E-Cleaner

eCleaner is a free program that helps you clean the ">" marks that accumulate after an e-mail message has been forwarded many times. You can learn about it here:

http://members.tripod.com/schin26/index.htm
and download it directly by clicking here:
http://members.tripod.com/schin26/clean201.exe

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