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
Endemol India Private Limted, the pioneers in Hindi serial production is a big name in the entertainment industry of the country. They have now join hands with one of the most reputed Tamil production house Nemichand Jhabhak Productions for their maiden venture in Tamil. Endemol India Private Limited, keen to provide quality entertainment, comes to film production for the first time and have appropriately chosen to do the remake of...
12:11 PM, May 31, 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: Computer security analysts have issued an alert for Internet users and operators against hackers attempting to target websites of "reputed" government and private organisations. Cyber security agencies have also asked Internet users to deploy adequate firewalls and security measures to combat these attacks originating through Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS). "It is observed that some hacker groups are launching distributed denial of service attacks on websites of government...
10:19 AM, May 27, 2012
Beijing: China has successfully launched telecommunication satellite "ChinaSat 2A" to boost broadcasting and multimedia transmission. A Long March-3B carrier rocket sent the satellite into the orbit from the southwestern Xichang Satellite Launch Centre yesterday. The satellite, developed by China Academy of Space Technology, will be used to meet the demands for China's radio and TV broadcasting and broadband multimedia transmissions, China Satellite Communications Co Ltd said. The launch marked the...
10:14 AM, May 27, 2012
Thiruvananthapuram: The Centre for Development Studies here has started the ground work for the seventh round of the comprehensive study on international and internal emigration from the state, says the study head. S. Irudayarajan, chief of the migration unit of the autonomous research institute, told IANS that the next round of the study would be based on the 2011 Census. "Our previous studies were based on the 2001 Census. This...
02:14 PM, May 25, 2012
Coimbatore: CPI(M) Politburo member Brinda Karat on Thursday came down heavily on Trinamool Congress chief and West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee and some other UPA allies terming them as 'hyprocrites' on various issues, including the petrol price hike. If Mamata was really concerned about the well-being of the people, why was she not withdrawing support to the Centre, Karat asked on the sidelines of a demonstration organised by CPI-M's...
12:20 AM, May 25, 2012
Mumbai: An increasing number of teenagers in India are using social networking sites to remain in touch with each other with mobiles as their favourite gadget, said a study. The GenY Survey 2011-12 by Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) covered 12,000 high school students aged between 12-18 in 12 cities including Mumbai, Delhi, Kochi, Pune and Lucknow between July and December 2011. "While 84 per cent of the respondents had internet...
11:57 AM, May 24, 2012
New Delhi: Film producer Ritesh Sidhwani, who is co-producing Aamir Khan's next movie 'Talaash', is impressed with the actor's TV debut 'Satyamev Jayate', aimed at bringing a positive change in society. "Aamir's show is a brilliant effort. It is fantastic what he is doing. Through the show, he is making everyone socially responsible and aware," Sidhwani told IANS. The show hits upon social evils and issues in the country, and...
04:11 PM, May 21, 2012
Detroit/New York: Facebook may only have itself to blame for why General Motors rained on its IPO parade this week. GM announced the decision to drop Facebook paid ads on Tuesday in what was the first highly visible crack in Facebook's strategy and illustrated doubts about its perceived advantage over traditional media. GM's decision followed Facebook officials' failure to convince top marketing executives at the US automaker of the benefits...
02:06 PM, May 18, 2012
New Delhi: A number of Internet service providers had blocked access to popular video sharing websites such as Vimeo and DailyMotion as well as major torrent search services including The Piratebay and isoHunt apparantly following a court order obtained by Copyright Labs, a Chennai-based online anti piracy service provider. According to Copyright Labs, ISPs were asked to block specific websites but in a repeat of earlier instances they ended up...
07:08 PM, May 17, 2012
Bangalore: Pinterest, the increasingly popular online bulletin board, raised $100 million in a financing round that values the US start-up at $1.5 billion, the Wall Street Journal said, citing people familiar with the matter. The funding is led by Japanese e-commerce site Rakuten, with Pinterest's existing venture-capital investors such as Andreessen Horowitz, FirstMark Capital and Bessemer Venture Partners also participating, the report said. Pinterest could not immediately be reached by...
01:09 PM, May 17, 2012
The CBSE Xth and XIIth Board examinations' results, 2012, will be declared any time now and here are some of the websites which students can visit to know how they have fared. The official CBSE website, http://cbseresults.nic.in/, powered by the national informatics centre, will put the results up but increased traffic may lead to its unavailability. In that case, students can visit http://cbseresults2012.co.in/. Another website, http://cbse.examresults.net/, has a service by...
10:35 AM, May 16, 2012
New Delhi: Following the controversy over a 63-year-old BR Ambedkar cartoon by K Shankar Pillai the government assured Parliament that no political cartoons would be allowed in school textbooks. Finance Minister Pranab Mukerjee also announced that all the objectionable material would be withdrawn. But the National Council for Educational Research and Training (NCERT) book at the centre of the storm - India Constitution at Work, a part of the Class...
06:58 PM, May 14, 2012
Hyderabad: A two-day international congregation of IT/ITeS industry is being organised in Hyderabad from June 21. 'Advantage AP 2012' will be organised by Andhra Pradesh government, along with IT and ITES Industry Association of AP (ITsAP) and Software Technology Parks of India (STPI). At the event, to be held at Hyderabad International Conventional Centre, top Industry leaders will brainstorm on challenges and opportunities to invest and grow their IT-related business...
10:51 PM, May 09, 2012
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