Starting up a server at home using an open source operating system can really come in handy. You can use the server to create a music or a photo library to share with family and friends, run a website, send and receive e-mails, and many other tasks. You won’t necessarily need a fast computer unless the size of the files you’re storing on the server are large. What you’ll need to start building a server?…
The 2nd ever ICANN meeting in India is well on its way at the International Convention Centre in Hyderabad right now, as I write this. If you’ve been part of it for Day 1 & 2, you know how awesome it’s been to exchange ideas with those at the event, network with experts in the industry and understand how things will impact your web presence business in the near future. What does ICANN mean for our…
When you sit down to think about your USP – Unique Selling Proposition that gives your Web Design and Development business a competitive advantage over other companies, Price, Quality, Efficiency and Reliability are obvious metrics you will consider. To deliver on these, there are multiple processes that need to be put in place and today we will explore one very critical aspect. Project Management is extremely critical to any business, let alone the Design and…
“Chat apps will come to be thought of as the new browsers; bots will be the new websites. This is the beginning of a new internet.” -Ted Livingstone, Kik Founder. If you are a developer or an entrepreneur trying to build an app, you might want to pay attention because your next requirement or project could just be a bot. Bots are one of the hottest trends in the technology and business world today…
Everyone’s moving to the mobile. If you’ve got a website, great. But if you’ve got a mobile app for it, even better. Mobile apps are trending due to their on-the-go usability and single tap access to any and every part of the Internet! As a web developer, you’re probably already familiar with building apps and if my guess is right, you might have built native apps with Java scripts. Allow me to introduce to you PhoneGap…
According to internetlivestats, as of 2015, there are more than 3.2 billion internet users and 944 million websites and many more being added every second. In this enormous universe of the internet, the importance of having a secure website is critical. Staysecureonline states that more than 1.5 Million people fall prey to cyber crime every day, that breaks down to 18 people per second. Cyber criminals use exceedingly effective computer software programs that automatically detect…
I’m sure you are well aware of the basic architecture on which the ‘World Wide Web’ functions. Invented by Tim Berners-Lee in the CERN Laboratories in Geneva, the Hyper Text Transfer Protocol(HTTP) is the foundation of the Web and HTML. Before the introduction of HTTP, publishing content on the web was an expensive affair. HTTP managed to drop the publishing cost significantly and liquefy information distribution making things not only convenient but also accessible. I’m…
The E-Commerce Boom From real estate to clothes to pet products to tomatoes, there’s a an e-commerce site for each of these. It’s hard to ignore the growing trend of start-ups today. Some stand-out features to note about the latest crop of start-ups are that they are tech based, web driven & mobile rich, operating in a lean model and owned & run by young people who are native to the Internet. From a financial …
A year or so ago, India surpassed Japan in the number of Internet users and has now comfortably placed itself at number 3 followed by the United States at number 2 and China at number 1. Undoubtedly, India has a vast population in comparison to most other nations, so a base of 300 million Internet users is not surprising. However, ease of access is mostly restricted to the metropolitan cities and semi-urban regions in the nation. We all recognize…
Cyber attacks are a looming threat in modern times. You could unintentionally be giving away your personal information if you are not cautious of your actions on the web. No entity present on the internet is foolproof. Thus, cyber safety is of prime priority. The intent of unlawful hackers is to modify the features of a website/system, which is not in accordance with you. Most security breaches have the intent of using your server as an…