Wednesday, 5 December 2012  In The News 1  As a Technology
reporter, you get to be at the forefront of the Tech Industry.
In my case, I started with IT and then moved on to serious R&D
science reporting.  Reporting IT during the Dot-com Era was
exhilarating: There would be something new to write about every
week. The press releases we received piled up as thick as a loaf
of bread!  Back then, the IT industry was as a whole (i.e. on a
worldwide level) nascent: hardware, software, applications, etc,
- all were new, mostly driven by new PC/server releases and
internetworking products. There was LAN then WAN. Conference
meetings on the PC platform went from audio to video. Video
feeds evolved from analog to digital. The whole PC platform got
hijacked into a mobile phone. And thus was born the smart phone
and 3G network.  In a gist, that was what happened. But, of
course, the Dotcom Era was more than that. It was a time of
intense competition. The reason: everything was new. Products,
as well as network speeds.  E