Railway Minister launches SMS-based ticket booking system

Keeping in mind the high mobile phone penetration in India, the railways on Friday launched an SMS-based ticketing system aimed at improving customer convenience.Launching the service, being run as a pilot project, Railway Minister Mallikarjun Kharge said it will also help the transporter deal with the touts who fleece the passengers."This service will be particularly useful for labourers...

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How Email Works

In this diagram, the sender is a human being using their company account to send an email to someone at a different company. Step A: Sender creates and sends an email The originating sender creates an email in their Mail User Agent (MUA) and clicks 'Send'. The MUA is the application the originating sender uses to compose and read email, such as Eudora, Outlook,...

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How Internet Search Engine Works

SEARCH ENGINE OPERATION There are three major functions for which the search engines are known for: index building and crawling, relevance calculation to provide results and result serving. Crawling and indexing The World Wide Web can be determined as a big city subway system with numerous stops. And, these stops are the unique documents ranging from html pages to jpg files to pdf...

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Hacker VS Programmer

1. A hacker beats the system. A programmer maintains the system. 2. A hacker is trying to get in. A programmer is trying to stop things getting in. 3. A hacker does things because he believes in them. A programmer does what he is supposed to. 4. A hacker changes the way things are. A programmer tries to keep the status quo. 5. A hacker is agile. A programmer is a small cog in a big slow...

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Airtel, Google team up to provide free mobile Internet to subscribers

Bharti Airtel said it has partnered with Google to launch a service ‘Free Zone’, wherein subscribers will be able to access Google services such as Gmail, Google+ and Google search on their mobile phones without any data cost.  The users, however, have to pay for advanced services such as attachment downloads, the company said in a statement. “…Free Zone powered by Google, will give Airtel...

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Facebook aims to drive revenues by making it easier to advertise

  The overhaul of advertising on Facebook is "part of an ongoing process to make the advertiser's life easier," Facebook director of product marketing Brian Boland said at a media event to explain the company's new approach. (Jessica Guynn / Los Angeles Times / June 6, 2013)   In a bid to get marketers to spend more money, Facebook is...

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