Jasjit’s Cyberoughts

Last week, one of my very close friends called me for an advise on something strange and disturbing. He received a call from a lawyer representing his mobile telephone service provider informing him that he was required to appear before a court in Delhi for a hearing, as he had not paid his telephone bill. He was also informed that he was not traceable for last  one and half years and hence court summons could not be served. Read more »

Finally, Indian Schools get an open source content and software push through Shiksha India, a non-profit initiative of Confederation of Indian Industries. Shiksha India was launched in Dec 2001. The program is aimed at providing license free software, content and training to school teachers for e-enablement across 19 states in India. They are actively promoting open source course management software Moodle and mathematics software Geogebra.

Crude prices touched a high of USD 128 before retreating to a little over USD 124 on May 16, 2008. Rising crude prices have created a lot of problems for governments and businesses around the world. Countries like India have to contend with increasing import bills and rising prices of essential commodities, partially because of high oil and gas prices. Experts have warned that oil prices might touch USD 200 making personal transportation and goods depending on oil even more expensive. However, I feel that there is a bright side Read more »

I was very excited to hear about Google opening up its e-mail services for Internet domain owners. This made it possible for individuals and organizations to integrate e-mail into their respective websites and provide huge spam free mailboxes with minimum effort and technical knowledge. Google also made available a set of office automation tools for creating documents, spreadhsheet and presentations online.

With just a few mx and cname record changes in DNS servers I was able to integrate my website with gmail using custom e-mail addresses and custom urls like Read more »