Brazil. The name alone evokes images of balmy beaches, bronzed bodies, or Bossa ballads. But beneath the veneer of this plastic surgery tropical paradise lurks an ugly,...

In the United States and Europe, people worry that their well-paying, high-skill jobs will be, in a word, “Bangalored” — shipped off to India.

Authorities are now offering rewards to informers who provide tips about pornographic Web sites, the state-run Xinhua news agency reports (in English and...

No, not music, we just love high-tech gadgets. Here’s this year’s vote for the top ten Israeli-invented gadgets of all time, picked by “Israel in the 21st...

Newspaper publishers will now be able to set a limit on the number of free news articles people can read through Google, the company has announced. The concession...

There is nothing more aggravating then spam (unsolicited bulk email). Those obnoxious emails for viagra, or for herbal products that claim to enlarge male and female...

As part of disaster management plans, the United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) will install three tidal gauge meters along...

The down server in Common Admission Test (CAT) added a bitter flavor to the tastes of the CAT aspirants. Total number of students taking CAT over 10 days period is...

A website has published what it says are 573,000 intercepted pager messages sent during the 9/11 attacks in the United States.

Internet ScamsThe term Internet Scam or Internet Fraud refers to any type of fraud scheme that uses one or more online services to conduct fraudulent activities....

SOCIETIES the world over, whatever be their stage of development, from primitive times to modern days, have never been static. Either progressive or retrogressive...

The sharp rise of crime in Turkey for the last decade is mainly from high growth of population and local immigration. Unemployment and deprivation have caused dense...

According to research that’s supposed to be published later this year, growing demand for Internet use will soon outstrip the stamina of the infrastructure...

An impasse in nuclear talks between world powers and Iran would only hurt the West by making Tehran push harder to advance its technology, according to the latest...

WASHINGTON: After the announcement of the path breaking discovery of presence of water molecules on the lunar surface by Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) on...

Nokia, the world’s biggest mobile phone maker, issued on Monday a global recall for 14 million chargers made this year because some of them could be faulty. The...

Read Only If You Have a Burning Desire for India’s Progress My friend Gurpreet returned to India after working for twenty five-years in the West. On reading about...

Human eggs and sperm have been grown in the laboratory in research which could change the face of parenthood. It paves the way for a cure for infertility and could...

Turkish website hackers are on rampange defacing government and media websites in developing countries. The latest casuality in the Kampala dispatch (a newsletter) that...

The Moroccan inventor, Mohamed Nabil Srifi, won the award ‘Made in the Arab World” contest organized by the Arab Science and Technology Foundation award for...