Washington: The National Security Agency and the FBI are tapping directly into the central servers of nine leading US Internet companies, allowing investigators to examine e-mails, photos and other documents that can be used to track people and their contacts over time, The Washington Post reported on Thursday. The highly classified anti-terrorism program, code-named PRISM, had not been disclosed publicly before. A US government source who was not authorized to...
12:06 AM, Jun 08, 2013
Details are now emerging that the US government allegedly has been monitoring internet activity of millions of people worldwide. The Washington Post and The Guardian are reporting that the National Security Agency (NSA) and the FBI are tapping directly into the servers of nine leading Internet companies, including Microsoft, Yahoo, Google, Facebook, AOL, Skype, YouTube and Apple. ...
11:51 PM, Jun 07, 2013
New York: US-headquartered IT services major Cognizant has been ranked at 12th place on a Forbes list of America's 25 fastest growing tech companies, which has been topped by business networking site LinkedIn. Social networking giant Facebook is ranked second, followed by global IT major Apple at the third place. NASDAQ-listed Cognizant, which recently pipped Infosys as the second-largest IT services firm in India, is the only company on the...
10:37 AM, Jun 07, 2013
Minister of State for IT, Communications and Shipping Milind Deora joins a Google+ Hangout as he discusses the Future of Information Technology and Communication in India on 6th June, 2013 at 7PM. ...
06:47 PM, Jun 06, 2013
New Delhi: Google has rolled out its Android virtual keyboard - Google Keyboard - to its Play Store. Google Keyboard is available in the Play Store for devices running Android 4.0 and above. Google Keyboard includes gesture typing, automatic error correction, and word predictions. It also lets users tap the microphone to compose messages with voice typing. The company says that the app provides Nexus typing experience on Android phones...
04:51 PM, Jun 06, 2013
San Francisco: This scene isn't in the movie, but it might have been fitting if The Internship had ended with stars Vince Vaughn and Owen Wilson wearing ruby red shoes while clicking their heels and dreamily whispering, "There's no place like Google; there's no place like Google." The new comedy depicts Google as corporate America's equivalent of the Emerald City from The Wizard of Oz - a colourful place where...
01:18 PM, Jun 05, 2013
New Delhi: Soon after MiKandi, an adult app store, announced the availability of its porn app - Tits & Glass - for Google Glass, Google has changed its policy to ban adult content on Glass. Mashable reports that now the first paragraph of the "Content policies" section reads, "We don't allow Glassware content that contains nudity, graphic sex acts, or sexually explicit material. Google has a zero-tolerance policy against child...
02:14 PM, Jun 04, 2013
New Delhi: The first Apple iPhone was available more than a year before the first Android phone made its appearance. While the iPhone changed the definition of and expectations from what consumers identify as a smartphone, it is Android that democratised this new smartphone experience, more so in emerging economies such as India. The Nexus 4 is the new revered leader in this Android democracy. For many technology enthusiasts, the...
01:36 PM, Jun 03, 2013
San Francisco: A US federal judge has ruled that Google must comply with the FBI's warrantless demands for customer data, rejecting the company's argument that the government's practice of issuing so-called national security letters to telecommunication companies, Internet service providers, banks and others was unconstitutional and unnecessary. FBI counter-terrorism agents began issuing the secret letters, which don't require a judge's approval, after Congress passed the USA Patriot Act in the...
01:11 PM, Jun 01, 2013
San Francisco: A US judge has ruled that Google Inc must comply with the FBI's warrantless demands for customer data, rejecting the company's argument that the government's practice of issuing such requests to telecommunication companies, Internet service providers, banks and others is unconstitutional and unnecessary. FBI counter-terrorism agents began issuing the secret, so-called national security letters, which don't require a judge's approval, after Congress passed the USA Patriot Act in...
10:56 AM, Jun 01, 2013
New Delhi: The doodle on the Google home page on Friday celebrates the 161st birth anniversary of the German bacteriologist Julius Richard Petri. Petri is most famous for inventing the Petri dish, ubiquitous in microbiology labs. Contamination by airborne bacterial pores was a worry for bacteriologists and Julius Richard Petri who was then assisting the pioneering bacteriologist Robert Koch devised a solution. Petri's 1877 eponymous invention is a shallow dish...
11:27 AM, May 31, 2013
San Francisco: Google is adding the recently released HTC One to its lineup of smartphones running on an unmodified version of its latest Android software. An HTC One model relying on the same version of Android as Google's Nexus brand will go on sale on June 26 for $599. That's the same day Google will start selling a Samsung Galaxy 4S that runs on a pure version of Android for...
06:49 AM, May 31, 2013
New Delhi: The interactive doodle to celebrate German bacteriologist Julius Richard Petri's 161st birth anniversary features the eponymous Petri dishes in Google colours. Julius Richard Petri was born on May 31, 1853 in Barmen and died aged 69 on December 20, 1921 in Zeitz. Julius Richard Petri had, in 1877, invented the shallow cylindrical laboratory glassware as an assistant to the pioneering bacteriologist Robert Koch. Petri dishes are used by...
06:00 AM, May 31, 2013
New Delhi: Six Petri dishes in Google colours form the interactive Google doodle on Julius Richard Petri's 161st birth anniversary that falls on Friday, May 31, 2013. The shallow cylindrical laboratory glassware was invented by Julius Richard Petri in 1877 while assisting the pioneering bacteriologist Robert Koch. Petri dishes are used by microbiologists for growing cell cultures. Nowadays single-use disposable Petri dishes are preferred over glass. Petri dishes are also...
05:10 PM, May 30, 2013
New Delhi: With the view to give users more control over the content they receive everyday in their inbox, Google has redesigned Gmail for both mobile and Web, and has done away with the single inbox. The new inbox groups your mails into categories which appear as different tabs. These categories include Primary, Social, Promotions and Updates. There is a separate tab titled "Primary" for your important mails that you...
11:00 AM, May 30, 2013
Rancho Palos Verdes: Motorola plans to launch a new, made-in-the-USA "Moto X" smartphone, CEO Dennis Woodside said on Wednesday, confirming speculation the once-dominant cellphone maker intends to make a comeback in the hotly competitive mobile market. Motorola, which Google bought for $12.5 billion in 2012, has steadily ceded market share to Apple and Samsung Electronics, with its latest phones garnering a relatively lukewarm reception. The "Moto X", details of which...
06:31 AM, May 30, 2013
New Delhi: This was waiting to happen. MiKandi, an adult app store, has announced that it is working on a porn app for Google Glass, Google's wearable computer with a head-mounted display that has been making news for more than a year now. MiKandi, an adult app store that distributes pornographic videos and apps, has said that it is working on an app for Google Glass. MiKandi's app will not...
06:03 AM, May 30, 2013
Tamil actor Vijay has proved his mettle not only as an actor but also as a dancer and a singer. The actor sung a song in the film 'Thuppakki', 'Google Google' and in 'Thalaaiva'. Vijay is currently shooting for 'Jilla' alongwith veteran actor Mohanlal. However, it is the music composer of the film Immam who has special plans for 'Jilla'. "We are trying all positive moves to make Vijay sir...
04:26 PM, May 29, 2013
It's hard not to think about Google when you read 'The New Digital Age'. The cover highlights the association of the authors with the company: Eric Schmidt is its executive chairman and Jared Cohen, the director of its think tank Google Ideas. And, with a subtitle that reads 'Reshaping the future of people, nations and business', it is hard not to think about the paradox of Google in India. In...
12:55 PM, May 29, 2013
Washington: Google Inc intends to finance, build and help operate wireless networks from sub-Saharan Africa to Southeast Asia, hoping to connect a billion or so people in emerging countries to the Internet, the Wall Street Journal reported on Friday. The Internet search giant - which has for years espoused universal Web access - is employing a patchwork quilt of technologies and holding discussions with regulators from South Africa to Kenya,...
04:43 PM, May 25, 2013
