Creation of living and working spaces which are a harmonious blend of technology, multimedia, intelligent systems and user interactivity, that is Cyber + Architecture. These spaces can be...
Making an e-mail message appear to have come from one place when really it comes from another is called spoofing. It is generally used by spammers, who do...
Google Panda refers to the change introduced to the search algorithm used by Google in 2011, to give better search results. The change aims to lower the rank...
A Google bomb is an effort to inflate a website’s search ranking for a particular term. Google gives importance to pages linking to a particular page for ranking...
Pharming involves rerouting the traffic of a particular website to a bogus one. This is done by exploiting the weaknesses of the site’s Domain Name System (DNS) server....
Cybersquatting is registering a website in the names of popular brands. The word squatting in this context means unauthorised occupation of someone else’s property. In the internet domain,...
Much like hypochondriacs who obsess about any small ache or pain they may have, cybercondriacs frequently surf the internet to glean information about anything that affects them. They...
The word ‘Simputer’ is an acronym for ‘simple, inexpensive and multilingual people’s computer’. It is a small, inexpensive, handheld computer, intended to bring computing power to developing countries....
A simple webcam comprises a digital camera attached to a computer. These cameras are easy to connect through a USB port. A piece of software grabs frames from...
