Los Angeles: Facebook's website suffered sporadic outages on Thursday (Friday in some time zones), anywhere from half an hour to two hours according to various blogs, tweets and affected users, but the company said the problem has been fixed. "Earlier today, some users briefly experienced issues loading the site. The issues have since been resolved and everyone should now have access to Facebook," company spokesman Michael Kirkland told Reuters. The...
02:43 PM, Jun 01, 2012
New York: Thousands of authors can sue Google Inc in a class-action lawsuit over its plan to create the world's largest digital book library, a federal judge ruled on Thursday. US Circuit Judge Denny Chin in Manhattan also rejected Google's bid to dismiss claims by The Authors Guild and several groups representing photographers and graphic artists, which would have forced their members to sue individually. Plaintiffs in the seven-year-old case...
12:58 PM, Jun 01, 2012
Manu Bhagavan is associate professor in the Department of History at Hunter College and the Graduate Center, the City University of New York. He is the author or (co-)editor of four other titles, including Heterotopias: Nationalism and the Possibility of History in South Asia and Claiming Power from Below: Dalits and the Subaltern Question in India. Here is an extract from his new book, 'The Peacemakers,' published by Harper Collins...
11:54 AM, Jun 01, 2012
Moscow: VKontakte, one of Russia's most-popular social networks, has postponed its initial public offering indefinitely after the flotation of the world's largest social network Facebook took a hammering. "The Facebook IPO has destroyed the faith of many private investors so VK's IPO is postponed for an indefinite term," VKontakte founder Pavel Durov wrote in his Twitter page. Durov holds 12 per cent of VKontakte and has a right to vote...
11:07 AM, May 31, 2012
New Delhi: Facebook India's plea for dropping its name from a suit for action against social networking websites for hosting alleged objectionable content was on Wednesday dismissed by a Delhi court which held it cannot be said that the company has no say in running the site facebook.com. Administrative Civil Judge Parveen Singh dismissed the company's plea for deletion of its name, rejecting its contention that Facebook India does not...
04:23 AM, May 31, 2012
San Francisco: Google will try to win more converts to a computer operating system revolving around its popular Chrome Web browser with a new wave of lightweight laptops built by Samsung Electronics. Tuesday's release of the next-generation Chromebooks will give Google and Samsung another opportunity to persuade consumers and businesses to buy an unconventional computer instead of machines running on familiar software by industry pioneers Microsoft Corp. and Apple Inc....
06:51 PM, May 30, 2012
New Delhi: A Delhi court on Wednesday dismissed a plea by Facebook India to drop its name from a civil suit filed against certain websites for hosting "objectionable content". The internet company argued that its India office merely provided technical support to the parent company, based in US, and did not host any content. The court, however, said that prima facie there was enough evidence to implicate Facebook in the...
05:05 PM, May 30, 2012
New Delhi: Book readings could soon become passe if author Sathya Saran has her way. Hoping to make an instant connect with audiences, the veteran journalist is taking her biography of Bollywood legend Guru Dutt to the masses by enacting the book with a cast of six characters across India. The biography, "10 Years With Guru Dutt: Abrar Alvi's Journey", is a first person narrative of screen writer, filmmaker and...
01:11 PM, May 30, 2012
Oslo: Opera Software shares soared over 20 per cent on Tuesday on talks that Facebook was in discussion to buy the firm, while analysts said competition from Google and others could push the price tag of any deal over $1 billion. Shares of Oslo-listed Opera, coveted for its advanced mobile phone software technology, jumped as much as 26 per cent, valuing the firm at over $800 million. Opera's mobile technology,...
02:03 AM, May 30, 2012
Beijing: Social media sites and blogs have lit up after eagle-eyed viewers spotted a surprise cameo in a Chinese TV documentary about the country's police force: Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg and his now-wife, Priscilla Chan. The documentary by CCTV was part of a series on Chinese police and high-tech crime-solving methods. A few seconds of footage showing Zuckerberg and Chan walking behind two police officers were shown included in a...
08:30 AM, May 29, 2012
New Delhi: Air India, which is operating a curtailed global flight schedule due to the pilots' strike, is likely to reopen international bookings and firm up a fresh operating schedule by this weekend with the help of 130 executive pilots. The airline said the three-week agitation by over 200 pilots has seen a drop in the number of its international passengers by about 3,000 and that its financial loss had...
07:47 PM, May 28, 2012
New Delhi: After Google, which recently closed the deal with Motorola, now Facebook is trying to get into the hardware game. According to a New York Times report, Facebook is planning to come up with its own smartphone by next year. "Employees of Facebook and several engineers who have been sought out by recruiters there, as well as people briefed on Facebook's plans, say the company hopes to release its...
12:17 PM, May 28, 2012
Philadelphia: A woman was charged on Friday with killing her 18-month-old twins, named Adam and Eve, in the family home. Police said she also attempted suicide by cutting her wrists. Stacey Smalls, 41, was charged with two counts of first-degree murder, police said. Investigators believe one twin was strangled and the other was drowned. Authorities are awaiting autopsy results for the official causes of death. Police also allege Smalls gave...
04:36 PM, May 26, 2012
Washingotn: Facebook Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg spoke to Harvard University students in her first public appearance since the company's disappointing initial public offering, but refrained from addressing the controversy around its messy, glitch-plagued debut. Instead, Sandberg urged students graduating this week from Harvard's business school to work for fast-growing companies, communicate honestly and address inequality in the workplace. "We need to acknowledge openly that gender remains at issue at...
11:54 AM, May 26, 2012
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