“The desktop metaphor has been static for the last 10 years”
With ‘Project Looking Glass’, Sun wants to bring about a big change in how the desktop will look. On a recent visit to India, Lionel Lim, vice president and managing director, Asia South, Sun Microsystems, spoke to Venkatesh Ganesh on this futuristic project that Sun says will change the way applications are built

“70 percent of unauthorised access is committed by employees”
Though every corporate feels it is secure, there is a wide gap between awareness of identity theft and the perceived ability to stop it. A recent survey by RSA Security throws up some interesting numbers.

VXML breathes new life into phones
What if your telephone could give you access to a wealth of resources through your Web infrastructure? Or if callers could access all the information on your Web servers from their telephones? Or if you could share your website with people who didn’t even have Internet access?