May 3, 2003 Welcome to a generous selection of articles from DAWN's Weekly Sci-Tech World. This page is updated every Saturday. For current issue Click here IT education: can our universities come up to expectations? THE fuel that drives knowledge-based approach to economic development comprises elements derived from government and industry, as well as education.... Who’s breaking into your computer? AS we are moving forward in the virtual world we are getting in secure. Viruses are sent to destroy valuable data, Hackers break in to our system to spy on us and newer ways of robbery have been introduced through Internet. It is not worth mentioning.... Local musiq on the Web Site: FORGET Napster, forget Mp3.com, and forget the global cards. If boogieing on desi tunes is your obsession, then gear-up your act, as the net is equipped with immeasurable entertainment.... Webwatch This site explores the explosive intersection between terrorism and weapons of mass destruction, and the threats from nuclear, biological and chemical weapons. The stress is on “Avoiding Armageddon” and using multimedia... Terms for computer junkies PUMP up your computer-related vocabulary! Load your brains with these frequenty used i-terms. Bluetooth: A wireless personal area network (PAN) technology from the Bluetooth Special Interest Group (www.bluetooth .com) founded in 1998 by Ericsson, IBM, Intel, Nokia and Toshiba..... Foxtail weed helping aphid insurgence on wheat crop WEEDS, the undesirable plants that appear to have grown up by themselves in a cultivated area, compete with the sown crops for space, water, mineral nutrients, air and light. If not... Listening for an ET signal SEARCHING for signals from other civilizations in outer space and looking for an answer to the question “Are we alone?” is not an easy task but worth doing. Chief scientist of SETI@home Dan Werthimer says, “I believe that we will likely discover... The ABC of ERP ENTERPRISE resource planning software, or ERP, doesn’t live up to its acronym. Forget about planning, it doesn’t do much of that, and forget about resource, a throwaway term. But remember the... The magic of sound and imagery EVER imagined how our most favourite singers keep coming up with an album every now and then. I always wonder from where on earth all this variety comes. Their songs are... 50th anniversary of double helix model of DNA celebrated in Pakistan THE 50th anniversary of DNA is being celebrated all over the world to mark the occasion of its discovery in 1953 as reported in Nature on April 25 1953. The discovery... Microsoft delays Office 2003 launch FOLLOWING feedback from beta testers, Microsoft plans to release a “refresh” of Office 2003 beta 2 before finalizing the product, pushing back the commercial launch of the productivity software suite until the third quarter, said the company. “We are making a number of improvements to the beta 2 version... Transiting exoplanet discovered GERMAN astronomers have found a third star in which a planet, somewhat larger than Jupiter, moves in front of its parent star.... ‘Bunker buster’ missiles directed at Moon TESTS have been carried out on ground penetrating missiles using “bunker buster” technology that could be fired into the depths of dark lunar craters to look for ice.... Hominid fossils show their age AUSTRALOPITHECUS fossils from caves in South Africa may have been buried about 4 million years ago, as much as 1 million years earlier than previously thought.... Utility computing: to what purpose? EVER since the first computer was constructed more than fifty years ago, the general trend has been towards newer experiences in all IT related fields. This going ahead requires manipulating computing... Byteback Problems galore 1. Please tell me what these types of file extensions represent: .msi, .pdf, .mdi? And what programs can be used to run these files? 2. What is the minimum hardware requirement... ITeaser THINK your IT knowledge is really good? Rack your brain with this I-Teaser and find out for sure:... Cool gadgets JAPAN’S electronics giant Matsushita Electric employee displays a prototype model of the electronic-book player ”Sigma-Book” which carries comic contents to provided with a stamp sized SD memory card at the company’s showroom....

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