Know IT World - By Trishant

India is now a leading player in Communication & Information Technology. The Government of India has also played an important role in achieving this gole by establishing many STPI across the country.

Software Technology Parks of India (STPI), is a society set up by the Department of Communication & Information Technology,Government Of India in 1991, with the objective of encouraging, promoting and boosting the Software Exports from India.

Links to all STPI running across india:

Srinagar
Mohali
Shimla
Dehradun
HeadQuarter
Noida
Lucknow
Jaipur
Kanpur
Indore
GandhiNagar
Kolkata
Rourkela
Nagpur
Bhilai
Hubli
Madurai
Warangal
VijayaWada
Guwahati
Bhubneshwar
Mumbai
Aurangabad
Pune
Hyderabad
Vizag
Manipal
Bangalore
Chennai
Coimbatore

Tiruvananthapuram
Tirupati
Mangalore
Pondicherry
Kolhapur
Guwahati
Allahabad
Nasik
Ranchi
Trichi
Triunelveli

The Founder of the most popular search engine "Google" , Sergey Brin and Larry Page, named as Men of the Year by the Financial Times.,.

The Men of the Year recognition reflects the effect the company created by Brin and Page only seven years ago

has had on internet users, as well as the worlds of business and technology, in the past 12 months.

Its soaring stock price has also made Google one of Wall Street's stories of the year.

It has a stock market value of nearly $130 billion, almost neck-and-neck with IBM and behind only Microsoft and

Intel in the technology industry.

The men, who are only 32, see plenty of scope to improve Google's core product. "It's clear there's a lot of room

for improvement, there's no inherent ceiling we're hitting up on."



Source: Business Standard

China overtook the United States as the world's biggest supplier of information and communications technology products last year, according to a report released Monday.
China exported $180 billion worth of information and communications technology last year. The United States exported $149 billion. In 2003, U.S. exports totaled $137 billion and China's exports totaled $123 billion.

China's share of global information and communications product trading, including imports and exports, rose from $35 billion in 1996 to $234 billion in 2003 and, finally, to $329 billion in 2004. The United States' share rose from $230 in 1996 to $301 billion in 2003 and finally to $375 billion in 2004.

China used to rely on the United States and Europe for electronic components such as computer chips. Those products are increasingly being provided by other Asian countries, including Japan, Chinese Taipei, Korea, and Malaysia, according to the report.

China is the largest exporter of those goods to the United States. The country supplies 27 percent of all U.S. technology and communications imports. Its technology trade surplus with the U.S. was $34 billion in 2004. It was $27 billion with the European Union.

Most of China's technology exports are computers and computer-related equipment, according to the study

courtsy
Techweb

Cyber cafes were once a very rarefied place that existed in only select parts of the city and visited by those in the know of the latest technology. But with the ubiquitous usage of Internet in all aspects of our life from work to play, cyber cafes have mushroomed in every nook and corner and at all public places imaginable. While this have made life easier and more efficient, there are security issues too that can compromise your online identity. As Niraj Kaushik, country head of Trend Micro says, “The public terminals at the airport, libraries, cyber cafes are not safe at all if one has to make online transactions that involves typing in sensitive information like the bank account’s username, passwords and other confidential data. Unless you are quite sure that the cyber café’s administrator has put in place all the security firewalls and softwares that can identify and block spywares, do not ever give out your credit card number details or anything that might be stolen by others at your cost. Sometimes your email account can be hacked and used to harm your reputation. Criminals may also hijack your screen name and use it for illegal purpose.” For Rajeev Barman, a cyber security expert, keyloggers that record every word you type is a great risk. “These run in the background unobtrusively and keep a log of your typing activity, including the passwords to your email and banking accounts. Even the highly trained security expert might be hard pressed to tell whether a particular PC has such kind of stealth programmes installed for they are hidden from the users,” says Rajeev.
So the best security tip is to desist from using any public Internet access terminal. If it becomes exceedingly important to use it for some urgent transaction, one should follow certain security tips (given in the box).

Be cautious


Look around. Make sure nobody is trying to look at your screen or keyboard. Also, don’t walk away from the computer while you’re logged in.

Beware of keyloggers:

Many public computers are locked down by the administrator to disallow installation of any additional softwares by the users. But there’s a chance a hacker could install a Trojan keylogger to capture keystrokes, and an industrious crook could use a hardware device—such as the KeyGhost Hardware Key-Logger—that connects between the keyboard and PC. Check the hardware carefully and if you find any suspicious piece of device, find another PC.

Don’t reveal sensitive information:

We recommend that you avoid typing any sensitive data at public kiosks. Many sites set cookies for an online session so if you close the browser and reopen it, you don’t have to log on again. If you close the browser and walk away, the next user could pick up where you left off.

Erase your tracks:

Be sure to delete your electronic trail of temporary files, cookies, and surfing history. If you’re using Internet Explorer, click on Tools / Internet Options. On the General tab, click on Delete Cookies, Delete Files, and Clear History.
Still in Internet Options, click the Content tab, then click the AutoComplete button. In the resulting dialog box, click the Clear Forms button and the Clear Passwords button.
If you downloaded any documents, delete them too. If you edited any documents, clear the “recently used documents” list.

Courtesy : Times of India

A Dutch technology company has breathed life into an

ambitious project to rid the Internet of suffixes such as .com or

.org




Soon people can choose to have a net address that doesn’t

have any prefixes like com, org, edu. Such a system, which

enables countries, individuals and firms to have a Web address

which consists of a single name, offers flexibility and is

language and character independent.
“The plan is to offer names in any
character set,” said Erik Seeboldt, managing director of

Amsterdambased UnifiedRoot.
UnifiedRoot offers practically unlimited numbers of suffixes,

unlike the short list of suffixes currently in use. Its offer is different

from other “alternative root” providers such as New.net which

offers to register names in front of a small range of new suffixes,

such as .club and .law.

Unlimited choices

“We’ve already had thousands of registrations in a single day,”

said Seeboldt after
the official opening of his 100-strong company which has

installed 13 Internet domain name system (DNS) root servers

on four continents.
Dutch airport Schiphol is one of the early customers.

Registering a name costs $1,000 plus an annual fee of $240.

Companies can then invent additional Web site addresses in

front of their top-level domain (TLD) name, such as

flights.schiphol or parking.schiphol.
Critics argue alternative root companies such as UnifiedRoot

introduce ambiguity because they bring a new set of traffic rules

to the Web which are, certainly in the beginning, only

recognised by a limited number of computers around the world.
“Those who claim to be able to add new ‘suffixes’ or ‘TLDs’ are

generally pirates or con-men with something to sell,” said Paul

Vixie, who sits in several committees of the Californiabased

Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers

(ICANN) with day-to-day control of the Web, on his CircleID

blog.

A welcome initiative

“The existence of alternate roots, and the possibility of new

ones, provides a useful competitive check on ICANN,” said Jon

Weinberg, a member of ICANNwatch which keeps a critical eye

on ICANN.
ICANN is overseen by the U.S. Department of Commerce and

operates the root servers of the Internet
which guide all Web traffic. The organisation also determines

which top-level domains are recognised by those root servers.
At the United Nations World Summit on the Information

Society earlier this month, many countries said they wanted to

take part in the governance of ICANN. But the United States

would not give up control.
UnifiedRoot plans to take advantage of unhappiness about

ICANN by offering geographic locations for free to countries,

regions and cities. It is left to speculation whether its plans

would succeed.

Courtesy :Times of India