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Mobile Network Providers and Technologies

There are several networks and technologies that enables communication between mobile devices and the supporting devices. The following are the forever and widely used most influential standards and technologies :                                                       1) GSM      GSM stands for Global System for Mobile Connection which is most widely used standard for mobile phone in the world. The promoter of  ' GM's Association ', estimates that 82% of the Global Mobile Market uses this standard. In more than 200 countries and territories over 2 billion people uses GSM Phone. The prominent advantage of GSM systems to customer have been the better voice quality and low cot alternatives to making calls for eg- Short Message Service(SMS). One of the advantage for network operators is the ease of getting equipment from any that implement the standard. GSM users also gets the availability of GPRS ( General Packeting Data Service) mobile data service. GPRS allow

Internet Protocols

There are various internet protocols such as HTTP, E-Mail, FTP, Telnet and SSL 1.      HTTP- it is the Internet protocol used to transfer web pages. HTTP was developed by World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) and the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF). HTTP runs in the application layer of TCP/IP model. An HTTP session begins when the client browser requests a web page from a remote internet server, when the server responds with the client’s requested page, the HTTP session for that object ends.  Since a web page contains many objects such as graphics, sounds, videos, frames. Each of them must be requested by a separate HTTP message. 2.      E- Mail- it is one of the oldest, most important and frequently used internet services. Like HTTP, the various internet protocols used to handle e-mail all run in the application layer of the TCP/IP. Simple Mail Transfer Protocol is the Internet Protocol used to send e-mail to the server. SMTP is relatively simple, text based protocol tha

10 Google Search Tips

10 Google search tips Search within a specific site by typing site:www. sitename.com after your search term Narrow your search results by adding quotation marks before & after the search term Exclude words from results by adding "-" sign & your word after typing the search term Words with similar meaning can be found by using the "~" symbol in front of the word Search for definitions by typing define:yourword into the search box Calculate anything by typing the query (for example, type 1234 * 5678) Covert currencies by using the appropriate codes (for example, type 50USD to INR) Convert between units instantly: For example, type 90cm to inches or 1 lbs to grams Get weather info for any city: Just type weath Find specific file types by typing filetype:ppt or filetype:doc Source:http://articles.economictimes.indiatimes.com/2012-02-01/news/31012997_1_search-results-search-page-search-engine

Cyber Security threat

Source: Economic times http://articles.economictimes.indiatimes.com/2012-01-23/news/30655461_1_google-ceo-larry-page-users-social-networking India needs to be get serious on the virtual front. Need of the hour a full-fledged military cyber command as there are online espionage and other attacks from China, Pakistan and others. Cyber attacks were greatly highlighted in the Munich Security Conference on Sunday. There is emergence of cyber-weapons like the Stuxnet software 'worm' that was used to sabotage Iran's nuclear programme over a year ago. In a economic time article it was told that it was a new class of weapon that caused a thousand centrifuges in Iran to self-destruct. It has been observed that the developed countries would be the "main victims'' of cyber-warfare as they were the most inter-connected in terms of information technology. Impact of cyper attacks can be enormous. Cyber-attacks can cripple a nation's military assets and st

Changing trends of the world

I was reading an article in Economic times Economic Times . It said in 2000, application development was dominating Indian industry, after that three new ideas, each of them billion dollar plus ideas came up. One was engineering outsourcing, second was BPO led largely by small entrepreneurs outside IT and the third was remote infrastructure management. We have to admit that the world has changed, and there are significant threats and significant amounts of opportunities. So instead of waiting for the golden old days we need to adapt to the changing world.

Volunia- Will it be a answer to Google?

While reading economic times I found that the Italian professor has come up with Volunia which he hope will challenge the US technology giant. The same computer prifessor came up with the "Hyper Search" algorithm in 1990's. It has been told that this new site allows users to view the components of particular websites to find the subject of interest more quickly and to interact with registered users who might be looking at the same web pages. I have added my e-mail ID to the list of power users. Lets c if I am able to get chance to use it as power user before it gets public.