Indian Railways are now becoming more technologied with e-ticketing, online and with SMS

A more efficient and people sensitive Railway Services system is being rolled out with Next Generation technology, which would make e-ticketing possible through mobile phones as also provide SMS alerts on reservation status. Railway Minister Pawan Kumar Bansal said that by the end of calendar year, Railways would put in place a Next Generation e-ticketing system which would bring about a "paradigm shift in internet rail ticketing". Mr Bansal...

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Top universities are in race to offer free online courses

More top universities outside the United States are joining the rush to offer "massive open online courses" that are broadening access to higher education. Coursera and edX, two leading providers of so-called MOOCs, announced major expansions that will roughly double the number of university partners offering free online classes through their websites. Mountain View, California-based Coursera said it will add 29 institutions, including 16 outside...

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Why 3D printing is becoming more promising

These printers can produce objects, even rather intricate ones, by printing thin layer after layer of plastic, metal, ceramics or other materials. And the products they make can be highly customized. Will the future be printed in 3D? At first glance, looking at past predictions about the future of technology, prognosticators got a whole lot wrong. The Web is a garbage dump of inaccurate guesses about the year 2000, 2010 and beyond. Flying cars,...

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Antivirus companies fight criticism more than hacks

Craig Elliott, chief executive officer of Pertino, a cloud-networking start-up, knows that the antivirus software his company uses won't deter all hacking attacks. That won't stop him from using it. "It's a safety blanket," he says. "It's CYA [cover your ass] more than anything else." That's why the antivirus industry, born in the late 1980s to combat floppy-disk viruses, has staying power, even in this era of sophisticated hacks from China and...

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