Reuters: Security researchers said they found a vulnerability in the Google Inc mobile payments platform which is currently available in phones sold by Sprint Nextel Corp. Mobile payment services that allow consumers to pay by waving their phone at a check-out terminal, instead of using a credit card, have long been available in Japan and some other countries but are only just emerging in the United States. Isis, a venture...
10:19 AM, Feb 11, 2012
New Delhi: The Enforcement Directorate has issued a foreign exchange violation notice to internet giant Google for alleged irregularities in transfer of funds to its foreign entities. The Directorate has asked the Indian arm of the company to explain to it all the permissions the company has obtained from RBI in this regard and its source of income in the country along with I-T returns filed earlier. "We have an...
05:42 PM, Feb 10, 2012
New Delhi: Online search engine Yahoo India's plea challenging the summons issued to it by a magistrate for allegedly allowing objectionable content on its site, will come up for hearing at the Delhi High Court on Friday. The High Court has also sought a response from the Delhi Police in the matter. A lower court had on December 23 issued summons to 21 websites, including Google and Facebook, for allegedly...
08:53 AM, Feb 10, 2012
New Delhi: Google Inc., reportedly, is set to launch a cloud-storage service - called Drive - which is expected to give a tough competition to the cloud-storage provider Dropbox Inc, said a report from the Wall Street Journal. Drive will allow people to store photos, documents and videos on Google's servers so that they could be accessible from any Web-connected device and allows them to easily share the files with...
01:01 PM, Feb 09, 2012
San Francisco: A consumer watchdog group is suing the Federal Trade Commission in an attempt to prevent Google from making sweeping changes to its privacy policies next month. The planned revisions would enable Google Inc. to bundle the personal information gathered by its Internet search engine and other services, such as Gmail, YouTube and Plus, so the company can gain a better understanding of its users and potentially sell more...
11:47 AM, Feb 09, 2012
London: Google is to soon launch hi-tech glasses with in-built computer displays, a media report said, quoting a company insider as saying. Speculation is rife that hi-tech "heads up display" glasses are being developed at Google's secret "Google X" lab for months. Now, sources claim to have seen a prototype of the new product, the 'Daily Mail' reported. The glasses will be armed with cameras, an Android operating system, and...
05:24 PM, Feb 08, 2012
New Delhi: Google has finally introduced the first ever version of Chrome for Android. However, the browser (a beta) is currently available only for Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich phone or tablet. In other words, a beta version of Google's desktop browser can be installed on any device that runs Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich. "Like the desktop version, Chrome for Android Beta is focused on speed and simplicity, but...
10:47 AM, Feb 08, 2012
Lahore: Pakistani authorities and Google have signed an agreement to use Google Maps to promote historical and tourist sites across the country's most populous province of Punjab. The Punjab provincial government and Google Inc yesterday signed a memorandum of understanding for cooperation in information technology at the Arfa Karim Software Technology Park in Lahore. Under the agreement, Google Inc will promote historical and tourist sites on the internet, particularly Google...
04:12 PM, Feb 07, 2012
New Delhi: The Google doodle commemorating the 200th birth anniversary of the greatest English novelist of the Victorian era features famous characters from Charles Dickens' novels. The British author created unforgettable characters such as Ebenezer Scrooge and David Copperfield. The doodle with a Victorian feel does not link to the usual Google search engine results but since it's about Dickens it instead directs users to the Google Books results page...
09:21 AM, Feb 07, 2012
Bangalore: All websites, including social media sites, would have to operate within the India laws and be responsible for hosting any content, Minister of State for Communications & IT Sachin Pilot said on Monday. "Be it a social media website or any other site on internet, they all have to operate within the laws of the country and they should be accountable and responsible for what they put up on...
01:10 AM, Feb 07, 2012
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11:54 PM, Feb 06, 2012
Bangalore: The government on Monday said there was no question of blocking or censoring social networking and other websites hosting content but maintained that they should operate within the ambit of Indian laws and be accountable. "Whether it's social media website company or any company for that matter, they all have to operate within the laws of the country. And what we have said is there must be responsible behaviour...
03:29 PM, Feb 06, 2012
New Delhi: A Delhi court has asked 22 social networking websites to file their compliance report on removing objectionable contents within 15 days. The next date of hearing has been fixed on March 1. The court in Rohini passed the order after the social networking websites asked for copies of CD's which contained objectionable content and had been filed by the petitioner. Facebook India on Monday filed its compliance report...
01:44 PM, Feb 06, 2012
New Delhi: A Delhi court will be hearing a civil suit against 22 social networking websites on Monday. The websites were asked to remove all objectionable content and file a reply stating the measures taken to screen uploaded content. A criminal suit is also being heard in the Patiala house court on Monday, which had summoned representatives of websites including that of Google and Facebook. The counsels for the web...
06:46 AM, Feb 06, 2012
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