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Indian Railways introduces e-ticketing

Thu, 20 Oct 2005 12:00:00 +0000

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ritzkini 25 Oct 2005 1:16 pm: wouldnt it make more sense for them to introduce it on on a pilot basis in one of the more e-savvy states ? rather than amritsar,kalka and lucknow..bu then again we are talking indian railways here..

Flat world

Mon, 04 Apr 2005 12:00:00 +0000

It’s a flat world after all. Thomas Freidman on Globalization, Bangalore, …

Second, the Netscape stock offering triggered the dot-com boom, which triggered the dot-com bubble, which triggered the massive overinvestment of billions of dollars in fiber-optic telecommunications cable. That overinvestment, by companies like Global Crossing, resulted in the willy-nilly creation of a global undersea-underground fiber network, which in turn drove down the cost of transmitting voices, data and images to practically zero, which in turn accidentally made Boston, Bangalore and Beijing next-door neighbors overnight.

Yes, crazy overinvestment can be good. The overinvestment in railroads turned out to be a great boon for the American economy. ‘But the railroad overinvestment was confined to your own country and so, too, were the benefits,’ Singh said. In the case of the digital railroads, ‘it was the foreigners who benefited.’ India got a free ride.

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Genmys 4 Apr 2005 3:56 pm: Some articles are star marked. Why?
S Anand 5 Apr 2005 3:03 am: They are popular or interesting articles.

Terrorists use the Internet well

Tue, 27 Apr 2004 12:00:00 +0000

Terrorists use the Internet well.

Indian Railways site

Thu, 10 Apr 2003 12:00:00 +0000

The Indian Railways reservation site is among the largest e-commerce sites in Asia-Pacific.

Cybergeography

Wed, 24 Oct 2001 12:00:00 +0000

Cybergeography: the geography of the Internet.

Internet indicators

Sun, 10 Sep 2000 12:00:00 +0000

Internet Indicators has a report on how the 4 layers of the Internet economy have been progressing.