Search

Several blogs related to the use and buying of technology products are discussed including a cellphone case with Wi-Fi reception, electronic Ink reader display and an Internet phone service.

The author states that the values of scholarship that have created his worldview are being eclipsed by a new paradigm shaped by technology, globalization, and postindustrial affluence. Those factors have spawned a culture that celebrates and empowers the individual. The author asserts that a symptom of that pervasive shift is the decline of deference to traditional authority including the church, the schoolteacher, the family doctor, the business executive, the union leader, the politician, and the intellectual. The author postulates that the "infosphere," as he calls it, needs new and decentralized mechanisms of self-regulation and self-organization, just as economist Adam Smith realized more than two centuries ago that a complex economy needs the guidance of an invisible hand.

The article reports on the exhortation to drop a directive by the Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS) on select information technology (IT) and telecommunication products in India. According to the U.S.-India Business Council (USIBC), the directive would negatively affect the information and communication technology (ICT) imports into India. Some of the technology member companies of USIBC are mentioned which include Microsoft Corp., Apple Inc. and Google Inc.

The article presents the author's view on the electromagnetic pulse (EMP) in response to a question related to the potential dangers of EMP. The author provides a brief history of the development of EMP and discusses how it could have a devastating impact on electrical devices and systems. He also notes the increasing dependence on vulnerable electronics and circuitry and low-technology backup systems which renewed the EMP threat.

MOSCOW. Aug 1 (Interfax) - Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a document entitled "The Foundations of the State Policies of the Russian Federation in the Period until 2020 at the end of last week, Kommersant reported on Thursday. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]