Coming soon! A smart PC that watches all your moves

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Spend a single day in London, and you'll be videotaped at least 300 times. More than 11,000 cameras watch every move you make. Thank God India doesn't violate your privacy like that - right? Consider this. When London's underground Metro was bombed five years back, the terrorists were arrested within a week. The cops played back hours of recorded footage from the area. Then followed the men back from the station to their homes - sitting at their computer terminals. Have the 2008 Delhi bombers been arrested yet? Or the folks who started the Mumbai riots? Two of India's biggest airports, some of our busiest sea ports and a few of our most famous religious shrines are now being watched. With technology even more advanced than London's security system in 2005. The company behind it, HCL Security Ltd., a 100% subsidiary of HCL Infosystems Ltd. I'd always thought HCL....

A Pen that's mightier than – your PC?

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in its electronic brain, and forms the words you've written down. Now, all that's left to do, is connect the pen to your PC, through a cable. And transfer all the data. You can read all about it at livescribe.com. But all that isn't cheap. The pen costs close to Rs. 12,000. The ball point can be replaced. But you'll have to buy it from the dealer, when the ink runs out. You get a thick notepad full of dot covered pages with the pen. But when that runs out, a replacement notebook costs about Rs. 250. If you can afford the pen (I can't -I'm hoping an Indian, or Chinese copy hits the market soon!) - it sure is a great idea. My first thought was about my wife. She's a school teacher and writes out sample question papers and....

Get smart! Save 12K on your next laptop

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Got your attention didn't I? The fact is, when most of us buy a computer at the store, we pay not just for the electronic hardware, but also for the Operating System (OS) software that makes the hardware work. Most of us use the Windows OS, and a genuine, latest version of Windows 7 costs upto twelve grand. What if you got an OS, that does everything Windows can. For Free. Tempting? But of course - most of us don't buy genuine software. Slip five hundred rupees to your friendly neighborhood computerwala and he'll come home and install a pirated version of Windows for you, won't he? Yes. But tech gurus say such pirated copies come pre-packaged with all sorts of computer viruses. And of course, once you're on the net - it's full of viruses designed with lots of love, to wreck PCs that run on Windows.....