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Avinash Subramaniam

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Guess What!

Google’s auto-suggest is not really as stupid as you think. It offers ‘weird’ suggestions because some people across the web found them useful.

15 December 2009
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ICC Test Rankings

What are we supposed to make of India’s number one test cricket team ranking?

10 December 2009
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Readability

It completely transforms your web experience: no more ads, no more searching for the text among pop-ups or nasty Flash animation.

09 December 2009
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Coma and Locked-in States

Rom Houben is said to be in a locked-in state, not coma, where the brain is conscious but the body totally paralysed.

02 December 2009
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Surviving the Web

Just because your kids are on the computer at home, they’re not out of harm. Short of a Facebook ban, this is how you can keep them safe.

02 December 2009
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Mobile Number Portability

Here is how it will work in India.

26 November 2009
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How to Help Your Battery

Don’t over-charge or under-charge it. Keep it powered at anything from 20 per cent to 80 per cent, and it’ll stay with you longer

26 November 2009
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David Coleman Headley

Headley is believed to have visited India seven times between 2006 and 2008 to plan terror attacks

19 November 2009
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New Technology for the Old

If your grandfather thinks he is too old for Facebook, Gmail and SMS, then for once at least, he is seriously mistaken.

18 November 2009
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Bing! Google’s Still the Best

Nifty gadgets and cool homepages don’t make for a sexy search engine. Relevant results do

16 November 2009

Authors

Pratap Bhanu Mehta

Pratap Bhanu Mehta is one of India’s most influential columnists and public intellectuals

Brahma Chellaney

Brahma Chellaney is a geostrategist and the author of two award-winning books on water: Water, Peace, and War and Water: Asia’s New Battleground

MJ Akbar

MJ Akbar is the author of, among several titles, Tinderbox: The Past and Future of Pakistan. His latest book is Gandhi: A Life in Three Campaigns

Ram Madhav

Ram Madhav is a member of the National Executive of RSS and a founding member of the governing council of India Foundation. He is the author of, among other titles, Partitioned Freedom and The Hindutva Paradigm

Makarand R Paranjape

Makarand R Paranjape is an author and columnist. Views are personal.

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