Archive for October, 2008
Mobiles, SMS play a role in Afghanistan security
The October 7, 2001, invasion of Afghanistan did more than mark the beginning of the “War on Terror.” It also paved way for the introduction of the first mobile phone networks into the country, networks that today find themselves pawns in the fight between the Taliban, the government and security forces.
Within months of the U.S.-led [...]
Five warning signs a tech startup is in trouble
The sound of a tech start-up crashing to Earth is loudest when it’s unexpected. However, there are several warning signs that investors and customers can look for that almost always spell trouble:
1. Key people start to leave.
In every business, employees will come and go, and most people have heard the HR mantra that “everyone is [...]
Windows Task Manager Extension
Windows task manager is a handy tool to monitor you computers performance, running applications and memory that is being used by those applications but the control it provides is limited in several ways. Windows Task Manager Extension is quite an useful plug-in for windows task manger to overcome the obstacle of limited control. it expands [...]
Can Machines Think?
Can machines think? That was the question posed by the great mathematician Alan Turing. Half a century later six computers are about to converse with human interrogators in an experiment that will attempt to prove that the answer is yes.
In the ‘Turing test’ a machine seeks to fool judges into believing that it could be [...]
