Apart from reviewing startups, we’re now responding to some of the issues that our readers have been constantly asking for. Many of our readers have suggested us to write about basic networking concepts, but simplified and digestible.

From now on, you can expect a regular flow of such write-ups relating to Web and Networking concepts. Here goes the first one…

OSI Model

Open System Interconnection (OSI) Model is a well defined hierarchical architecture of  seven communication layers, each of which, represents several protocols, serving particular requirements for efficient and error-free data communication over …

Web browsers have been the gateway for end users to the world of Internet. Technically, Web browser is a desktop application that lets users access web based applications, web services and web based information sources, with the help of website addresses(URLs).

But Web browser is one such sector in internet landscape that has seen the most fierce competition from some of the biggest technology companies in the world. What once started as an experimental software by Netscape communications, grew up massively in no time by hooking up tens of  thousands of …

Hypertext Markup Language, popularly known as HTML is well known to most of us. It is probably the first lesson taught to any guy who aspires getting into the field of web development. But XML, although high relevant to the web, has not gained awareness to great extent.

To keep things simple and digestible, here is an in-depth brief-up of XML, explaining its meaning, basic purpose and relevance to the web. Take a look.

What is XML

eXtensible Markup Language, abbreviated as XML, is a markup language which is meant for the purpose …

We have reviewed & written about plenty of high-profile smartphones out there in the market(such as T-Mobile G1, Nokia N97, XpressMusic,  Dell Smartphone) but most of them are sold by the handset manufacturers in consortium with national mobile carriers.

For instance, Apple iPhone is sold all across U.S. along with a compulsory 2 year contract with AT&T. Same is the case with T-Mobile G1, which is sold with a mandatory contract with T-Mobile. Although, such a contract appears alluring to the customers as …

Just like water, electricity, gas, mobile network coverage among others, Internet has also become a must-have utility, not only in urban cities but also in developing cities and townships. Ticket Booking, bill payment, shopping, education, entertainment, communication medium…etc..etc are all done online nowadays. A PC without Internet seems a dumb piece of hardware, isn’t it ?

Leaving major cities aside, rest of the far-off cities, townships, villages etc are generally deprived of broadband internet connectivity. Until the population of any town grows to a significant level, even service providers don’t find …

Do you remember the day when Twitter, the latest rage across the web right now wasn’t accessible to any of its users for tens of hours(and remained unstable for a couple of days). At the same time, many other popular web services such as Facebook and LiveJournal suffered a significant downtime due to similar cause.

And the cause was DDoS Attack.

A couple of days passed by and most of us forgot that fatal attack which almost killed Twitter for a while.

Even after creating such a havoc, there’s hardly(barring tech minority) anyone …

Apart from the Internet industry, the other industrial landscape that i have been closely associated with is “Networking and Telecommunications Industry”. After pursuing my bachelors in the field of Telecommunications, i have been working in Networking and Telecommunications industry along with many other things.

And today we’re featuring a service that, according to me, may serve (or might already be serving) as ‘Life Saviour’ for enterprises that relate to the field of Networking and Telecom. industry. We’re talking about MLCP.

At the moment, every corner of industrial sector is facing the scorchy …