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Javed Anwer
29 July 2010, 06:34 PM IST
Our government loves beating around the bush. It's convenient, it shows the public that they are trying and it takes little effort. After backing down a few months ago from their "ban BlackBerry" chant due to public outcry, our security agencies are ...
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Javed Anwer
15 July 2010, 01:20 AM IST
Auction over, Rs 67,710 crore collected, lots of noises made… isn't it time we get 3G? This is what I thought after my three-day hunt for a 3G connection came to a naught in Delhi, the exalted seat of power and the city housing the headquarters of MTNL, the...
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Javed Anwer
04 July 2010, 03:25 AM IST
If you are a keen follower of trends in mobile technology, you must be aware that the Finnish company has all but routed in the high-end market. Loved by all — and I must add, rightly so — for its easy-to-use and durable handsets, the company lost its way in...
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Javed Anwer
15 June 2010, 06:57 PM IST
Steve Jobs is on a mission to rid the world of all the slimy, steamy porn or for that matter anything that resembles naked skin. And the latest victim of this crusade is good ol’ James Joyce and his Ulysses . Initially, when Apple tartly told...
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Javed Anwer
11 June 2010, 04:12 AM IST
Android vs iPhone — that's the fight. Even its detractors will agree that in iPhone 4, Apple has a winner on its hands. The latest iPhone 4 has cutting-edge hardware: A4, the same processor which is in iPad but probably downclocked for the phone, excellent...
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Javed Anwer
04 June 2010, 07:50 PM IST
Two different places, two different settings, two tech-visionaries and two contradicting statements. Speaking at D: All Things Digital , Steve Jobs minced no words as he declared personal computers dead, terming the tablet connected to a Cloud as the...
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Javed Anwer
27 May 2010, 05:45 PM IST
Ultra-expensive computer hardware, a few kilos of dry ice, a massive dewar full of liquid nitrogen (LN2) and some chutzpah to put all this stuff at stake to chase computing records - that is the idea of weekend fun for hardcore computer hardware enthusiasts....
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Javed Anwer
23 April 2010, 12:05 PM IST
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Nobody knows how, why or exactly when it happened. In 2007, Hitler became an unlikely comedian on Youtube as amateur video editors took a liking to a scene in German...
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Javed Anwer
17 April 2010, 12:28 AM IST
Once upon a time, we had something called a floppy. It was a wonderful piece of engineering: a magnetic tape placed upon a spindle that could store, by the time I became old enough to use one, 1.44MB data. But as time went by, we came to realize the floppy was...
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Javed Anwer
08 March 2010, 07:19 PM IST
The Cake is not a lie , after all. Valve, the company which collided energy beams long before scientists in Geneva dreamed of it and gave us games like Half-Life, Counter Strike and Team Fortress 2, is working on a Portal sequel. The official announcement ...
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Javed Anwer
07 March 2010, 04:00 AM IST
Wikileaks is alive. But barely. The controversial website, launched in December 2006 reportedly with the help of some Chinese refugees, has in its short existence, become a thorn in the flesh of several governments. Its primary job is to "provide...
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Javed Anwer
03 March 2010, 01:17 AM IST
Strange are the ways of trade coalitions. They work to promote "the rule of law" and create a framework in which their members companies can do business in a just manner. But when push comes to shove, they are not far from eschewing the same...
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Javed Anwer
28 January 2010, 10:09 PM IST
Underwhelming. For me, this is the word that describes iPad , Apple’s latest gadget. And it’s not just because the hype was unprecedented — some had called it the second coming of tablet, the first being ‘the tablet’ of Ten Commandments, brought down by Moses...
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Javed Anwer
08 January 2010, 07:33 PM IST
Windows 7 is an old story but the world is still in the process of uncovering the innards of this operating software. A few days back, some hacks led the world into a hidden feature of Windows 7, dubbed GodMode by gleeful geeks, which allows users to...
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Javed Anwer
14 December 2009, 06:30 PM IST
How important is privacy on web? Not much, says CEO of Google Eric Schmidt . Instead, he asks web users not to grill (Lord) Google over its privacy policies. Worry about what you do on web, he says, because "if you have something that you don't want...
Javed Anwer is a geek at heart, a man of gizmos, gadgets and games. He spends the better part of his nights, and sometimes days too, roaming the virtual alleys of WWW. When he is not on the Internet, he is most likely tweaking his computer to coax more out of it. When he is not doing any of these, he works as a senior subeditor at The Times of India, Delhi. In this blog, WebWise, he tries to document his rendezvous with technology.
The views expressed in WebWise are the author´s own.
