The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) published the 2024 Global Education Monitoring Report: Gender report – Technology on her terms in France in 2024. The report examines the impact of technology on girls' education opportunities and future technological development. It highlights ICT's potential to overcome educational barriers …
Computer viruses flourish on the Internet. Every time a file is downloaded, there is a chance that a virus is taking a ride. Some viruses even hide in e-mail attachments. Researchers at IBM are working to block these destructive programmes. Steve White, a senior virus researcher, and his colleague Gregory …
The Internet has even changed the way we compute. Search for Extraterrestrial Life (SETI) is planning to send the data gathered by the radio telescope at Arecibo, Puerto Rico, to the general public. The data and the relevant software will remain in one's machine and whenever the machine is idle, …
THE agency that has ushered in the era of Internet activism is a bureau called Jansen and Janssen, named after Thomson and Thompson, the two detectives who feature in the Tintin comics. Jansen and Janssen is a spin off from the powerful squatter movement which occurred in Amsterdam in the …
• In Londona cafe called the Cyberia sells a cup of coffee for us$2.35 - and for another us $2.85half an hour"s access to theInternet on one of its 10 computers. • The Japanese call it maruchimedia or multimedia - and theypropose to link it to every home in Japan …
In the past, 'encryption' was a term closely related to espionage, which entailed the cloak-and-dagger despatch of secretly coded messages by spies from behind enemy lines. But in the modern world of computing, encryption has moved from the realm of the clandestine to that of the commonplace. The use of …
The Internet has been doubling its size every year since 1988: it is the fastest growing communications medium ever. More than 40 million people have access to it today. Over 110 countries have a direct access to the Internet and if other E-mail networks are taken into account, 168 have …
Private access Two Purdue University students discovered a major flaw in the highly-regarded Kerberos software, developed by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and International Business Machines, US. Steven Lodin and Bryn R Dole claim that a hacker can read confidential mail and masquerade as anauthorised user once he can penetrate …
COMPUTERESE IN CHINESE: When in China, turn Chinese. The US- based Microsoft Corp seems to have no qualms about following this strategy. It has just set Chineselanguage standards for its much- vaunted operatint system Windows 95 being sold in Beijing. Microsoft has signed a pact with two units of China's …
Potential Internet users are often intimidated by, its complexity. different protocols, data formats and applications needed to make full use of the information and services. The Financial Times (June 22), London, reports that Wollongong, a Californian software company, has developed a simplified ac@ess product allowing users to surf the net, …
BY HOOKING on to computer networks like the Internet, the amount of information you can access through your computer is mindboggling. But this glut of information comes complete with a special, needle - in- a- haystack problem: the retrieval of relevant data, especially when the information is image-based. Now, researchers …
WHO says that dead men tell no tales? They do, but in a tearing hurry: cadavers can't be preserved for too long. But now "The Visible Man" -- a cyberspace cadaver, actually a highly detailed atlas of the human body available over Internet-- has been unveiled by American researchers. The …
WHO would have thought of archaeologists and anthropologists using cutting-edge computer and laser technology in their disciplines? Now, the scribble pads beloved of anthropologists and archaeologists' calipers could well be given a decent burial for all time to come. At the University of Texas at Austin, for instance, researchers are …
Intel Corp, the leading US chipmaker, has joined hands with the Beijing-based Jitong Communications Co. Together, they plan to grab lucrative offers. An exhibition will open in Beijing of Intel's networking and personal conferencing products. "Intel and Jitong can help China's industry merge the power of the PC with the …
AS MORE and, more North Americans fall victim to the myriad charms of a personal computer and avail of on-line consumer information services, electronic companies in the us are rushing to find a place in cyberspace. There are already 60 million users of home computers in North America and the …
IT'S TIME you took your neglected stamp collection seriously, for mail may soon become electronic. The familiar sound of the postman's bicycle bell will be replaced by the beep of the computer and the crackle of telephone lines as electronic mail, or E-mail, transforms communications. Already about 15 million people …
From July people in Belarus will not be allowed to enter Internet cafes without passports or other identification proofs. The country’s president Alyaksandr Lukashenka passed a decree to that effect in the first week of March. The order, which has been criticized by human rights groups and Western countries, obliges …
