Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), a grand name in Indian IT Industry, a brand that’s publicly traded and counted as one of the most elite IT solution providers for countless private and public sector projects across and beyond the country, has recently been hacked by some anonymous hacker group.

It brings nothing less than tons of shame to the IT Giant that consults/sells enterprise solutions to other companies(both indian and foreign) for security and all other facets of IT.

If you would pay a visit to the homepage of TCS right …

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 …

It’s interesting to look around and realise that the stuff we use on a daily basis, the gizmos we keep in our pockets, the machines we spend hours upon, the place we start browsing web from, the space that keeps us in touch with our friends, the platform that tells us what’s hot and what’s not, the virtual world that keeps us engaged for hours…is only because of some handful of tech folks out there.

There’s no exaggeration in calling them as Celebs, or may be Tech Celebs…

Here, you would see something much more …

In my early days with the whole new world of computers(internet came much later), there was a lot of stuff running ‘behind the scenes’, which i was completely unapprised of.

I only knew that i have to wait a couple of minutes after i power on the CPU and my computer will be ready to operate afterwards. I was not really interested what was happening before i could see my Windows wallpaper as my real interest was computer games, movies  and other stuff.

I also admit that computer problems used to be …

If there’s an existant system that has been masquerading the sophisticated and complex side of Internet then it has to be Domain Name System. Without Domain Name System(DNS) in place, it would almost be impossible for us to use web with a comfort and ease that we relish today. Inspite of DNS being so relevant to Internet (and all of us), most of the population that uses Internet doesn’t even know what DNS is all about.

What is DNS ?

“Domain Name System”, commonly referred as DNS is a hierarchical naming system …

With enhanced demand and rising competition, “Smartphones” have slowly turned a household name as a prime consumer electronics item but astoundingly, the proper definition of a ‘Smartphone’ is still blurred.

According to David Wood, EVP at Symbian Ltd, the company which is currently leading the Mobile OS market, “Smart phones differ from ordinary mobile phones in two fundamental ways: how they are built and what they can do.”

The main reason why smartphones are still identified distinctly and categorized easily is because of the unique characteristics that majority of Smartphones possess.

Skype is a one of the most popular services for Instant Messaging and VOIP(Voice Over IP) today. There are other popular instant messaging services such as AIM, Yahoo Messenger, GTalk, MSN Messenger, Meebo among others but Skype is distinctly known for its exceptional speech quality, video chat feature and ‘cheap calling rates’ across the globe.

Apart from its popularity, another peculiar and rarely known fact about Skype is its Origin. By origin, we mean the origin of the term ‘Skype’ and not the service itself.

Back in late 2002, when Draper Investment Firm …

Internet and World Wide Web are terms that are generally used synonymously but there are much different in actual meaning.

How are they Different ?

The term Internet evolved from Inter-Networking. It is a massive super-network of millions of networks built all across the globe. It actually represents the overall network infrastructure comprising of Fibre optic cables, routers, switches, gateways, computers among other network constituents. Every node(computer) on internet is accessible by every other node connected to the Internet and that’s how Internet is primarily used for communication and Information sharing.

There are some well defined Internet protocols …