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What Google can your Wife cannot? – Read your mind!

November 2, 2013April 28, 2018 Shankar Ananth Asokan 0 Comments Google, India, Pakistan

Just realized how powerful Google can get. It did find out what was in my mind with a few words.

India’s Mobile Potential

February 16, 2013April 28, 2018 Shankar Ananth Asokan 0 Comments India, Internet, mobile, mobile vs desktop, statcounter

I am not sure if any other country has this. India’s internet mobile users are higher than desktop users. Though

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World Cup – Welcome Home!

April 3, 2011April 28, 2018 Shankar Ananth Asokan 0 Comments Against, ball, balls, Bollywood, businessmen, calendars, Cricket, factor, factors, From, generation, geography, goal, gods, history, Home, horizons, hours, humans, India, languages, Many, motivation, nation, odds, opponent, player, players, politicians, predictions, religions, Science, self, spectators, Srilanka, statistics, strategy, Though, venue, victory, Welcome, World Cup

1983 – We the last of the Generation X were born before India won its first cricket world cup and

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More on Stuxnet – Some Views

September 30, 2010April 28, 2018 Shankar Ananth Asokan 0 Comments ANSI, automation, Bloggers, blogs, Both, Carr, categories, Centre, colleagues, Cuba, customer, customers, data, Direct, discussion, Documents_Produits, Doordarshan, doubts, failure, forum, glitch, guests, Hard, Home, imagination, imaginations, India, industry, infection, INSAT, INSAT-4B, Iran, ISRO, Jeffery, Korea, Language, linux, Liquid, method, Microsoft, needs, North, operators, organization, PageIndex, panels, plants, PostID, processor, products, Propulsion, quotes, reduction, representation, Research, result, satellite, services, Siemens, SIL4, SILs, SIMATIC, Software, Some, Space, Stunxnet, Stuxnet, Sudan, supports, Symantec, Syria, system, systems, Tata, Traffic, VSNL, website, Whether, WinCC, Worm

Stunxnet is beyond imagination. Bloggers claim its targets are beyond process, power and nuclear plants. Siemens systems are also

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Stuxnet – The New Generation Control Systems Computer Worm

September 29, 2010April 28, 2018 Shankar Ananth Asokan 0 Comments Acquisition, attackers, automation, Belarus, Bhopal, bullion, Bushehr, Computer, Control, controllers, Cyber, data, DCS, defense, Destruction, disaster, dollar, Eagle, Enemy, ERP, example, Games, generation, Google, Hard, Hollywood, image, imagination, India, Indonesia, industry, infestation, infrastructure, IPS, Iran, June, life, logic, mass, mechanism, Microscope, Microsoft, nation, nations, nature, nuclear, OLE, Oops, OPC, piece, Plant, platforms, PLC, PLCs, purpose, region, SCADA, September, Siemens, SIS, solution, Source, State, strength, Stuxnet, Supervisory, systems, themes, Threat, tragedy, Under, versions, virus, VirusBlokAda, weapon, Wikipedia, WMD, Worm

Stuxnet is a Windows-specific computer worm first discovered in June 2010 by VirusBlokAda, a security firm based in Belarus. It

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JnNurm

June 12, 2010April 28, 2018 Shankar Ananth Asokan 0 Comments activities, areas, Ashoka, buses, census, crores, December, Development, government, Governments, Independent, India, infrastructure, initiative, investment, investments, Jawaharlal, Jawaharlal_Nehru_National_Urban_Renewal_Mission, JnNurm, life, Local, logo, management, Manmohan, Many, Marcopolo, mass, million, Minister, Mission, modernization, National, Nehru, period, policies, population, Prime, product, Renewal, requirement, Requirements, result, roads, sanitation, Sector, services, Singh, State, sticker, Tata, technology, transportation, ULBs, Urban, Volvo

Ever wondered what the JnNurm sticker on city buses you see in Bangalore mean? Initially I thought it to be

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India’s gateway to Internet

February 28, 2010May 15, 2018 Shankar Ananth Asokan 0 Comments Africa, Airtel, APCN, Around, article, Asia, Bharti, blogspot, BSNL, cable, canal, Changi, Chennai, Cochin, Colombo, contents, Curious, discussion, Durban, East, Europe, Falcon, Fiber, FLAG, friends, From, gateway, gateways, Globe, Google, google apps, government, Governments, image, India, Indicom, Indo, Internet, Lanka, Link, loop, Mauritius, Melkbossstrand, message, Middle, Mumbai, Note, notification, notifications, Optic, reliance, SAFE, SIngtel, South, Suez, system, Tata, Telecom, Tuticorin, VSNL, website, Western, World

During a casual discussion with friends I was imagining how Governments are able to block web content. During my visits

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Chinese Vegetarian

December 24, 2009April 28, 2018 Shankar Ananth Asokan 0 Comments appetite, Bian, China, China World Trade Center, Chinese, Chinese Vegetarian, colleagues, Curious, dictionary, didn, direction, dishes, District, Domino, Dominos, Dongcheng, European, food, Gan Bian Dou Jiao, gentleman, goat, hotel, India, Indian, Indians, item, Jiao, Jinbao, Look, McDonalds, meals, meat, member, menu, mutton, Nobody, Note, office, Oops, paper, People, personnel, piece, Pizza, pork, recipe, recipes, Regent, restaurant, restaurants, Spicy, Street, subway, Taj Pavilion, taxi, Tomato, True, Vegetable, Vegetarian, victim, word, worth

My first visit to China was short and all I could risk to enjoy local experience was to take the

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India – Top Websites

October 29, 2009April 28, 2018 Shankar Ananth Asokan 0 Comments Alexa, archive, Bengali, Blogger, candidates, Chatrooms, columns, Corporation, Cricinfo, custom, database, Dialup, encyclopedia, engine, English, ESPN, Facebook, Features, files, Free, friends, Games, Google, Hindi, images, India, Indian, Indiatimes, industry, interface, Interfaces, International, IRCTC, LinkedIn, links, Live, Main, Marathi, Microsoft, Music, Network, news, newsletter, online, option, options, Orkut, PageRank, Part, partners, photos, planner, player, portal, Premium, product, protection, provider, rail, Railway, RapidShare, Rediff, reservation, results, Search, services, Social, statistics, status, subject, Tamil, technology, Telugu, templates, ticket, tickets, tool, Tourism, translation, Twitter, Upload, Usenet, users, version, Websites, Wikipedia, Yahoo, YouTube

Below is the list of top websites (Top 20) in India as per Alexa as queried today. All websites are