A DIMINUTIVE bird that weighs less than a bag of sugar has completed the longest migration on record. The sooty shearwater travels the Pacific Ocean in a figure-of-eight pattern each year, flying up to 46,000 miles on its migration route. The distance puts it far ahead of the Arctic tern, which until now was thought to have the longest annual .. more »

oogle Blogoscoped does some poking and prodding and tries to figure out how many sources Google News REALLY has. "To find out how much (and what) they really index, for the past days I polled roughly 1,4 million news stories per day by searching Google News for semi-random words every few minutes. I found over 8,600 unique news sources in Google .. more »

Bangalore, often viewed as the hub of India’s Silicon Valley, is looking to join a growing list of cities with wireless broadband everywhere... more »

How does your website stack up on the web? Here's a tool that scores your search engine rankings... more »

Think your brilliant idea will make you a million bucks if you could just turn it into a business? Before you sink your life's savings into launching that business, consider these points... more »

Research scientist Tristan Miller set up a page begging his email correspondents not to send him Microsoft Word attachments. Why no Word, you ask? Miller's got a whole long list of reasons. A sample: Microsoft Word documents are not guaranteed to look and print the same way on every computer and printer. Microsoft Word documents are extremely large .. more »

Cringley writes in his column, that online news last longer on the net. So by reading a news-paper you know more on different things, compared to online readers. I guess, he is right. The Mob effect is very much visible on the net. That's both the strength and weakness of internet... more »

Tharsisindia.com is a website focussed on promoting space science in India. It is an effort by Dr Ghosh and the NASA team... more »

When somebody directs terror at you, nation-States are expected to hit back with maximum force, carry the fight into the enemy camp. It is not enough to possess unrelenting, unremitting muscle power -- it also becomes necessary, once in a while, to display that power. And not merely through caparisoned missiles parading down Janpath once a year, .. more »

The US government is asking for comments on how the internet should be run, and anyone is allowed to comment - but you'll need to be quick. Check out how?.. more »

India's security establishment is rattled following the arrest earlier this month of S S Paul, a systems analyst at the National Security Council Secretariat, for passing on sensitive information to an American woman using a Pen Drive... more »

The Nero d’Avola by Cusumano - a full flavoured, lovely red wine.. more »

A space telescope scheduled for launch in 2007 will be sensitive enough to detect theoretical miniature black holes lurking within our solar system, scientists say. By doing so, it could test an exotic five-dimensional theory of gravity that competes with Albert Einstein's General Theory of Relativity... more »

NewsForge looks at a few content management systems. "It seems as if everyone is a Web publisher today -- from the habitual bloggers and online diarists to the companies running major news outlets, portals, and magazines -- and they're all using some kind of database-backed content management system (CMS) to do it. There are a lot of CMS choices -- .. more »

Planning to go on a long holiday and wondering what to do with your blog? Now you can hire a professional blogger who will act like a blogsitter and will blog in your absence while you travel around the world on a vacation... more »