There is a talk about spreading internet connectivity in rural India. There are 601625 villages in India. As on 30.06.11, number of villages covered under internet connectivity are 169201. Under Rural Wireline Broadband Schemes, broadband connections were provided to 288454 villages. It is a long way to go before India covers every village under internet connectivity. Even here, the number of usages will be minimal as most of the villagers are not aware of computer usage. But the young people in villages are eager to taste internet and its benefits. Therefore the government should go ahead and provide access to the nook and corner of India.

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Internet against Holy Koran?

From 1990 when the worldwide web (www) was invented and the first website http://info.cern.ch was published on August 6th 1991, the internet usage has grown in geometric progression. Today, millions of people are glued to the Net. It has touched the lives of people all over the world except Afghanistan where the Taliban regime banned the internet as it considered that Internet was against the Holy Koran. But now that ban has also been removed by the Hamid Karzai government in Kabul.

Hacking is threatening Net functioning

As the benefits of internet percolated down to all parts of the world, so also has the misuse along with it. Hacking has grown phenomenally. High profile victims of hacking attempts in the past few months include Sony, Lockheed Martin and Google. Even the government websites had been hacked. Wickileaks secured through illegal means the valuable information about American diplomats’ communication to their government about various issues and personalities. Companies, whose websites are hacked, are often scared of the potential reaction of corporate partners and investors in their firms. Many organisations are embarrassed to reveal the impact. Recently experts gathered at a cyber security conference in London organised by the Eastwest Spell Institute to discuss these matters. Even though a complete solution may not be possible to prevent hacking, the web security can certainly be strengthened by using innovative technologies.

Secure DNS will reduce hacking

Parallely, a small group of internet security specialists gathered in Singapore recently to start up a global system to make email and e-commerce more secure, end the proliferation of passwords and raise the bar significantly for Internet hackers. The discussions were centred on an elaborate technical arrangement to create and then securely store numerical keys that will be kept and stored in three hardened data centres in Singapore, Zurich and San Jose, California. The keys and data centres are part of a technology known as Secure DNS or DNSSEC. DNS refers to Domain Name System. It is a directory connecting internet names to numerical internet addresses. The system is not yet completed and if it is completed and made available, then hacking will be very difficult if not impossible.

Cure may prove worse than the disease

Apart from hacking, companies and organisations are indulging in digital surveillance all over the world to gather information for their marketing and other purposes. Privacy watchdogs are stepping up the pressure, calling for laws that would require companies to stop digital surveillance. Advertisers track the movements of the users across the Web all the time. But the problem is that in the name of enacting laws, the governments may try to take away the rights of the users or curb their activities. In other words, the cure may prove to be worse than the disease. This is also the opinion of the Internet freedom crusader Barlow. He says that the curbs are stupid. In his words, he says,” It is the usual problem (clamping down on internet) where you have a bunch of people who don’t know the environment trying to protect you from things that might go wrong in it. And trying to impose themselves in the ways they can’t otherwise”.

IPv6 will facilitate more connectivity

The present version of iPv4 (Internet Protocol Version 4) is running out of address space. The current version provides an approximate 4.3 billion connections. We have reached nearly the end of this limit. The push is gaining for IPv6, which enables more people to come on board the Internet wagon. The new IPv6 will enable providing trillions of connections, comfortable enough to meet the expanding requirements of users.

Medical prescriptions in Net

Medical technology is increasingly relying on Internet. Your therapist will see you in the Web and prescribe cures for your ailments. Internet-based psychotherapy is gaining ground. Of course the solutions do not work for everybody. There is nothing like visiting your doctor personally and discuss with him about your ailments. The personal touch is lacking in online consultations.

Online coaching

Similarly, education and coaching has taken a deep root in the Net. Online coaching classes are available for almost every class and course. They serve the purpose of the students very well. There are even facilities for doing the homework of the students. Here again, there is nothing like visiting your coach in person and taking guidance from him. Personal touch can do fantastic transformation. However, as the saying goes, something is better than nothing. In the absence of a good personal coaching available in your area, it is better to go for an online coaching. In future, there may be even online marriages registered. There may be online sexual experiences provided on a defined platform. Couples who do not know each other will be online husbands and wives. All these things cannot equate personal touch. There are online facilities to worship in a temple and even to conduct Pooja. But it cannot equate the experience of a personal visit to the temple and worshipping the deity.

Piracy crackdown coming

Piracy is another evil affecting the world. Web providers are planning for a piracy crackdown. Those who illegally download songs and movies will be warned to stop, and if they don’t, they could find their internet access slowing to a crawl. This is a good measure more effective than enforcing any law by the government. The remedy attacks the root of the problem and brings in an effective solution.

Net facilitates travel

Travel is an important domain where the Net has deeply percolated. As online travel plans gain currency across the world, the players in the domain including travel agencies and hotels are beefing up their presence on the net. It is very convenient to sit at home and book railway or air tickets, hotel accommodation and travel plans. You need not have to visit anywhere. Everything is arranged online.. But online shopping has not gained currency yet. Except buying tickets, Indians are not using shopping facilities online. A large number of users surf in the Net only to gain information about various products. There are two reasons for this. One reason is that people are afraid of using their credit cards in the Net. Second reason is that Indians want a personal touch to shopping. During festival seasons or during functions like marriages, the family visits the shop and loves to purchase various items ranging from apparels to jewellery. This personal touch is missing in online shopping. Even in case of books, people love to visit bookshops to peruse various books before arriving at their buying decision. Nevertheless, online shopping is increasing slowly and by 2014, it is expected to touch a figure of Rs.1500 crore in India.

Beware of social networks

Social network hacking is another big problem faced by the users. Whatever sensitive information they provide in the social network sites is hacked not only by illegal hackers, but monitored if not hacked by the governments and police also. One should be more careful while using these sites. Even the employers monitor these sites about their employees’ activities, interests and opinions.

Writers can freely voice their critical opinion

But the greatest role of the Internet is the facility for the writers to freely voice their opinions without fear or favour and also the readers to read such opinions. Take for example Sunil Gavaskar. No writer can criticise Gavaskar’s play or his opinions because he is considered as a demi God in India. Gavaskar has a deep influence with the cricket administrators including the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI). No editor of any newspaper will publish the writing of any writer that is sacrilegious to Gavaskar or the Cricket Board. All the newspaper editors receive free passes for all the cricket matches and they visit these matches along with their families and sit in the VIP lounges. Naturally, they will not publish anything against the Cricket Board or Gavaskar. But a writer like me can always publish critical opinion about Gavaskar or the BCCI without any fear. There is no need to fear that the editor may refuse to publish my views. I myself can publish such views in my blog or there are thousands of websites which offer a chance to publishers like me to publish my articles. In other words, Internet is a much more superior media than newspaper or journal. One can call Manmohan Singh a thief or David Cameron a fool in the Internet. This is hardly possible in print media. Naturally, millions of people are switching over to the Net to read varied opinions about various things that interest them from politics to sports. One can even start a newspaper in the Net without incurring lot of expenses and make it popular among the Netizens.

Snail mail is similar to an email, where a mail parcel is delivered by the postman to recipient’s mailbox. The key difference is, snail mail/parcel is the actual physical mail form where the item delivered is tangible, real.

About snail mail…

Way before email, instant messaging and other social networking platforms for sending messages exist, snail mail was the one of the few available methods for people to keep in contact with pen pals, lovebirds and for businesses to manage their business process

Other than communication needs, snail mail is also required for delivering physical items ranging from accessories to apparel, stationary to electronic good etc.

However, recent years has seen that snail mail for communication is quickly replaced by email, instant messaging, etc 

Why? Some of the drawbacks faced by snail mail…

1. With distance, it means that snail mail will takes time to reach, unlike email or instant messaging which is immediate. This makes communication efficient and instant.

2. Cost will differ based on mail’s weight and location. Email and instant messaging are free. (Excluding the cost of the internet provider subscription) Even sending a mobile text to worldwide are made affordable.

3. Lost mail due to unforeseen circumstances 

However…

No doubt the need for communication via snail mail has decline over the years. But with the introduction of internet, another new small business group also emerged who depends on snail mail for delivering their products. These are the online retailers. 

And lately, more businesses are adopting the e-commerce concept, having their own online shops available to worldwide customers.

Thus, unless sending of physical items no longer requires physical transportation, else snail mail would still be around for as long as delivery of physical items is required.

Selling eyeglasses is an illustration to those who claimed the products that needed to be sold in person could never attain success online. There couldn’t be anything more personal than eyeglasses, and the most wonderful thing comes with the variety that online companies provide for the selection of eyeglasses. With a superior customer care and convenience to select from among the user friendly list of designer eyeglasses from which the customer can try on putting on a virtual set of eyeglasses and even that with a low cost that devoid the rate of a middle man, there won’t be a reason for which any online shopper won’t prefer buying his-her personals online (1).

This indicates the freedom today’s consumer possess in increasing the interaction with machine intelligence. It also suggests the scope for a brighter e-commerce, and this prevalence itself promises a successful era, based on the intelligent man-made machinery. What is needed is to understand the human side of consumer behavior, the taste and flexibility to adapt to the growing phases that e-commerce brings to us. Because modern day man has one thing running short, and that is time. Capitalizing on this opportunity to make the most of the available time is a worth thinking phenomenon, to which the new sellers are escorting.

(1) http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/17/technology/17glasses.html

Time: Do not leave your strategy to celebrate until the last minute, putting in place plans or come up with plans for the week of Christmas is too late. In general, I would advise being prepared for the Christmas season from September, online shopping is where busy people rely on to do their Christmas shopping to make sure it is ready and the promotion of a favorable service.

Whenever Delivery: While shopping online is certainly becoming the preferred choice for many at Christmas one of the main concerns is to ensure buyers have to be delivered on time and in tact. A delivery service transparent and competent is a necessity and online retailers must do everything possible to reassure customers of the safe and timely delivery to ensure the business. Make it clear that the last cut of dates for Christmas delivery time are both in the UK and internationally. Consider running a Christmas promotion offering customers free delivery with a special code, this is good to bring in business and customers to remember this type of promotion. If you can offer customers an express, engraving service, next day delivery but be clear about the limitations and time commitments for these services cut. The most important thing is to keep your word and try our best to offer their customers on time and in good condition save a lot of problems. If there is a problem, be sure to inform their customers immediately and assure you that is doing everything possible to solve the problem.

It’s Christmas, it is clear: Consider adding a specific category of Christmas to your cart and fill it with the right products, gifts, special offers buyers will appreciate this as I put everything before them, nothing to take some of the problems of Christmas shopping. Christmas is the best time for sales, multiple purchases, discount codes, gifts to buy and buy, no matter what time of year. Give a little something and will remember your site and spread the scheme to other friends and family. Harness the energy “free” communication by word of mouth, let your customers to promote. If you have a blog consider doing some Christmas themed posts if their work in the kitchen, survival guides, is the feast of Christmas or current guidelines. Christmas presents many opportunities for you to find something to blog about which we know to be popular with a lot of people.

Beat the Boxing Day Blues: Some people can often be hit by an attack of melancholy, once the holiday season has passed and the January sales are something to look forward and to brighten the long nights of winter, after Christmas. Make your site happy and of course, have good deals for their customers, not just trying to flog them all the old stuff three years ago until now no one ever wanted to even 80% off. When it comes to time of sale that the number of consumers and the amount of traffic instead of large profits from expensive products and few customers.

Hopefully these tips have given you something to think about when it comes to getting your e-commerce shopping cart ready for the holiday season, which is beneficial to both businesses and consumers to participate!

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Evaluating Your skills

Make a list of all the skills you have. Put stars next to the ones you’re really good at. Next circle the ones you need to improve on. Then take and high-light the ones you want to use in your new career. Then take the means to improve on the other ones.

What You Love To Do

Make a list of things you love to do. If that’s writing, cooking, sewing, what ever. Put it on this list, make it long. Put a lot of thought into this. Get creative anything go’s.

Design

Take both lists and start working on a plan. Decide what skills go well with what hobbies. Don’t forget that you can do just about anything on the internet. So put that in your plan as well. Tapping into your talents could make happy and make you money.

And Remember

Stay positive, objective, and motivated.