New York: On July 1, we say goodbye to Google Reader, a handy tool for bringing headlines and articles from your favourite websites into a single place.
With Reader, I've been able to see at a glance all the updates from various news services, blogs and company websites I follow. Although many of these items relate to work, I have added a few fun topics, too, including news on Antarctica and a daily dose of passive aggressive notes that people send each other.
I have spent a lot of time curating Reader, so I'm not keen on seeing it die.
Fortunately, there's an afterlife. Google has made it easy to move your list of sites you follow, known as feeds, to another service. And many of those rival services have made it easy to accept those feeds, especially after Google said in March that it would retire Reader....
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01:17 PM, Jun 20, 2013
Seattle: Google asked the US Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court on Tuesday to allow it to publish aggregate numbers of national security requests it receives separately from criminal requests, on First Amendment grounds. In its filing, Google requested the court to allow it to publish the aggregate number of national security requests it receives, including disclosures under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), claiming it as part of its First Amendment...
08:40 AM, Jun 19, 2013
Chandigarh: Google India launched a campaign which is aimed at simplifying the web for the country's internet users. "The objective of the campaign is to help simplify the Web for Indian users, showing how they can get instant answers to their most common queries," Sandeep Menon, Director, Marketing, Google India, said here. He said that as more Indians come online for the first time, they are increasingly looking for convenient...
10:35 AM, Jun 18, 2013
Mumbai: Search engine giant Google today launched a new ad format 'Product Listing Ads' in India to provide users information like images, price and brands of products, which will help people shop better both online and offline. Everyday, millions of shoppers use Google search to research and discover products to purchase online and offline, and this new format connects users to rich product-information like looks, price and brands, Google India...
05:03 PM, Jun 17, 2013
Christchurch: Wrinkled and skinny at first, the translucent, jellyfish-shaped balloons that Google released this week from a frozen field in the heart of New Zealand's South Island hardened into shiny pumpkins as they rose into the blue winter skies above Lake Tekapo, passing the first big test of a lofty goal to get the entire planet online. It was the culmination of 18 months' work on what Google calls Project...
01:19 PM, Jun 15, 2013
San Francsico: Facebook and Microsoft have struck agreements with the US government to release limited information about the number of surveillance requests they receive, a modest victory for the companies as they struggle with the fallout from disclosures about a secret government data-collection program. Facebook on Friday became the first to release aggregate numbers of requests, saying in a blog post that it received between 9,000 and 10,000 US requests...
12:47 PM, Jun 15, 2013
New Delhi: Acting on its concern and surprise at the internet data mining by US intelligence agencies, including from India, the Indian government has taken up the issue with the US envoy, government sources said on Thursday. National Security Advisor Shivshankar Menon, who also helms the India-US cyber security dialogue along with his US counterpart, took up the issue on Monday when he met US Ambassador Nancy Powell. The issue...
04:45 AM, Jun 14, 2013
Islamabad: Amid reports that Google could be blocked in Pakistan, the country's new IT Minister on Thursday said the PML-N government does not intend to do so and only wishes to have an effective mechanism in place for shutting out blasphemous contents. "PML-N government does not intend to block Google in Pakistan rather we wish to have an effective and efficient mechanism in place for blocking blasphemous contents before YouTube...
02:14 AM, Jun 14, 2013
Gone are the days when interning meant running around to get coffee or finishing chores for little or no money. Companies like Google are paying interns much more than what many full time employees are able to make in a year. ...
09:42 AM, Jun 13, 2013
San Francisco: Google is asking the Obama administration for permission to disclose more details about the US government's demands for email and other personal information transmitted online in an effort to distance itself from an Internet dragnet. In a show of unity, Google rivals Microsoft Corp. and Facebook Inc. also supported the attempt to pressure the US Justice Department to loosen the legal muzzle that limits disclosures about government surveillance...
12:19 PM, Jun 12, 2013
Jerusalem: Internet giant Google announced Tuesday that it is purchasing Waze, an Israeli company whose navigation software uses social features to improve directions and traffic reports. The average value of private companies acquired in the Israeli high-tech sector has steadily risen since 2008, according to IVC Research Center, reaching $111 million last year. But at $1.03 billion, the sale of Waze is one of the largest high-tech acquisitions in Israeli...
07:50 AM, Jun 12, 2013
San Francisco: Google is buying online mapping service Waze in a $1.03 billion deal that keeps a potentially valuable tool away from its rivals while allowing it to gain technology that could improve the accuracy and usefulness of its own popular navigation system. The acquisition announced on Tuesday ends several months of speculation as Waze flirted with potential buyers interested in its rapidly growing service. Waze blends elements of a...
12:36 AM, Jun 12, 2013
Washington: Majority of Americans seem to back Obama administration's controversial secret surveillance programme to facilitate terrorism investigations even if personal privacy is compromised, according to a new survey. A solid 62 per cent Americans said the federal government's investigations for possible terrorist threats were more important, even if that intrudes on personal privacy, the national survey released on Monday by the Pew Research Centre and the Washington Post found. A...
05:27 PM, Jun 11, 2013
Jerusalem: Google is close to buying Waze for $1.3 billion, an Israeli newspaper reported on Sunday, potentially trumping rival offers for the Israeli mapping start-up. The report on the website of financial newspaper Globes did not cite sources or provide further details. Last month sources told Reuters the Internet search giant was in talks to acquire Waze, while a second Israeli newspaper reported Facebook was willing to pay up to...
09:23 AM, Jun 10, 2013
Islamabad: Pakistan's new IT minister has warned that Google could be blocked in the country if the company fails to remove blasphemous and objectionable material from its video-sharing website YouTube. Minister of State for IT and Telecommunication Anusha Rahman Khan made the remarks on her first day in office yesterday while talking about Pakistan's efforts to end a nine-month ban on YouTube for hosting clips from the controversial film "Innocence...
11:58 AM, Jun 09, 2013
New Delhi: Snubbing reports that the US National Security Agency (NSA) and the FBI are "tapping directly into the central servers of nine leading US Internet companies" through a secret program known as PRISM, new reports have surfaced claiming the NSA never had direct access to the servers of the major tech companies. According to a new report from CNET, those reports are not true and are based on a...
04:17 PM, Jun 08, 2013
New Delhi: After Samsung and HTC, now Sony is reportedly working on the Nexus variant of its top-of-the-line smartphone, Xperia Z. According to a report from AndroidGeeks, the Sony Xperia Z running stock Android will also be sold in the Google Play store. The Nexus variant of the Xperia Z will exclude Sony's software customisations, but will have identical hardware specs. Though the exact release date of the Sony Xperia...
11:36 AM, Jun 08, 2013
San Francisco: Major tech companies including Apple Inc, Google and Facebook Inc said they do not provide any government agency with "direct access" to their servers, contradicting a Washington Post report that they have granted such access under a classified data collection program. The newspaper reported that the US National Security Agency and the FBI are "tapping directly into the central servers of nine leading US Internet companies" through a...
10:47 AM, Jun 08, 2013
Washington: President Barack Obama on Friday defended the newly revealed government surveillance programmes as a small price to pay for keeping America safe from terror attacks. Sweeping up Americans' telephone records and monitoring Internet activity from overseas are "modest encroachments on privacy" that can help US intelligence analysts disrupt terror activity, he said during a four-day trip to the West Coast. "Nobody is listening to your telephone calls," he reassured...
03:07 AM, Jun 08, 2013
