The mass improvements of Internet technology and virtualization bring us in a stage where we nearly buy/want to buy everything from online. But as the online shopping spree grows so is the online scam and fraud. There are thousands of online shopping sites out there with lowest quality products (that they can’t sell on site), some with zero customer care, much worse some are just crooks/frauds. So they only way to be safe is buying from someone reliable, certified by proper authority. In United States BBB online reliability program is one such scheme, where they scrutinizes online companies to …

Up until now ICANN, the organization that assigns Internet domain names was busy with different TLDs to make domain name more custom, but always limited within roman characters. It’s been a long time coming. A little over seven years ago, ICANN, committed to the idea of providing support for internationalization of those names. ICANN has now announced that the first sites using fully internationalized domain names will be accessible to Internet users starting Monday (15th Aug 2007). On Monday ICANN will begin testing of whether allowing the character sets of 11 languages to be included …

Let’s begin this with a very simple question, what is the most fundamental means of interaction with a physical object? Undeniably the answer would be “Touch” or “Grab”. Microsoft re-introduced that very basic method of interaction recently at the D: All Things Digital conference in Carlsbad, California, with the launch of Surface.

Six years ago Stevie Bathieche and Andy Wilson of Microsoft had a concept to mix virtual and physical worlds to bring a …

There was such a time when business community used to gather in country clubs or aristocratic restaurants/bars to exchange views and information for mutual benefits. Those sorts of clubs still do exist, which are strictly limited to members and memberships are hard to come by. But business world did changed a lot, especially when more and more industry started to have their cyber journey. In this new age we have new kinds of portals, the online portals where business community gathers for mutual benefits, by breaking down the aristocratic, national, international, and cultural barriers. Sounds world-shattering isn’t it :). …