Mumbai Terrorists used advanced technology

Mumbai Terrorist Tech Surprises Indian Authorities

This week, as spectators around the world either watched TV news, tracked Twitter feeds, read blogs and sites in horror as the Mumbai terrorist attacks unfolded, the terrorists themselves were tech'ed up in order to track the police response themselves.

While police and the military were impressed by the arsenal carried by the terrorists, they were also impressed by the technology they carried as well. According to reports from multiple sites, backpacks carried the Mumbai terrorists showed multiple BlackBerry handsets. Read more about Mumbai events.

A typical move in such a standoff is to cut the TV feeds to buildings, shutting down any information feed the attackers may have to track government response. But in Mumbai the terrorists used their BlackBerrys to surf the web and keep track of police movements and global reaction to the attacks, according to analysis of the recovered devices.  more

Internet - a reliable resource

Internet reach was a reliable resource during Mumbai terror drama

Sat, Nov 29 05:55 PM

Washington/Mumbai, Nov.29 (ANI): The Internet proved to be a reliable resource during the terror mayhem in Mumbai.

New media allowed the world to look in on a city in crisis and receive real-time information from citizen journalists' as events unfolded, reports CBS.

Before the sights and sounds of the attacks in Mumbai could be televised, cell phones and the Internet were abuzz, both in blogs and with images as the horror unfolded.

"What's important is to get a quick sense of what's happening. One of the first real photographs of the scene was posted by somebody on Flickr," said social networking expert Gaurav Mishra. more