As an unfortunate thing, India is figured in top 10 Spam sending countries in the world, accounting for nearly 3% of total spam sent globally in 2nd quarter of year 2008. As per report by security firm Secure Computing, it is estimated that these Top 10 countries account for 55% of total spam volume of the world. US is on top of spammers list with 16.56%, making a large gap between it following countries. Russian Federation, Turkey and Brazil is on 2nd, 3rd and 4th on list respectively. India ranked 9th in list accounts for nearly 3% of total spams sent across the globe. See - India high on Internet vulnerabilities - Orkut, Mozilla on List Interestingly the report also revealed a spam-based email attack that links to new Web-based malware and features news on Hollywood celebrities such as Angelina Jolie as bait, whose sole purpose is to download malware posing security threat. The report recognized 'Angelina Jolie' as a name used on top of list of malware containing mails followed by other big names such as Barack Obama, Paris Hilton, Britney and Jessica Simpson. Other interesting thing depicted in report in this report is that - out of the 2008 roster of Fortune ...

Question - With Free Internet Telephony just come up in India some of you could thought that, you were already making calls over the internet, than what's this Free Internet Telephony meant for? Answer - That works only over net-enabled PCs. You couldn’t terminate internet telephony calls on fixed and mobile networks and vice-versa. Now TRAI newest recommendation has now made it possible to do so. TRAI (Telecom Regulatory Authority of India) has broken the ice finally after all that scrutiny over illegal Internet telephony in India in last year's October when big names such as Skype, Google, Net2Phone has to go under scrutiny and alleged of 10 million minutes of illegal net telephony without any license. On 12th of May TRAI released a 12 questions consultation paper on "Issues related to Internet Telephony", which needs to replied by the stake holders, example of various countries and background of Internet Telephony in India. The question relates to whether ISPs should be permitted net Telephony services to land-line phones within India, what would be implication and Interconnections between computers and land-line/ mobile phones. On Aug 18 TRAI come with detail recommendation i.e. conclusion to permit Internet telephony to ISPs with permission to provide Internet ...

Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has announced the rejuvenation work to be implemented till year 2009 and that would be taken as biggest expansion in last 40 years in Internet, since its inception. ICANN has approved some recommendations that bring out the more of internet for people to express themselves. Below are some recommendation; New strings in domains TLDs (Top Level Domains) from presently .com, .org or .edu etc. to any user choice such as .YourCompanyName or .music for music industry or .brandName for any company brand or even your name like www.website.ramanarayan. New scripts/ languages support for domains, URI to be written in and that would extended to world's languages which will important for future of internet in Asia, Middle East, Eastern Europe and Russia. The Hint is that it can be written in these region's languages respectively, from presently 37 Roman characters only. Presently users have 21 Top Level Domains (TLDs) to chose from, soon after this expansion the users can have self chosen TLDs to name their domains, unless these TLDs are not offensive based on public morality and order. It is expected that ICANN will accept applications for new names in the second quarter of 2009. Importantly, ...