Mumbai: If you were of the thinking that incidents of hacking were predominant abroad, then you're sorely mistaken; read on. Reportedly, the latest victim, in a long series of hacks is the high-profile website of the Indian Microsoft Store. The store suffered a hack, carried out by a team of hackers called 'Evil Shadow Team'. WPSauce first reported about the incident, and according to a statement in the report, "It...
11:27 AM, Feb 13, 2012
San Francisco: Yahoo Inc Chairman Roy Bostock and three other directors will step down as the struggling company ploughs ahead with an internal overhaul, including discussions on dealing with its stakes in China's Alibaba Group and Yahoo Japan. The corporation - once a Web powerhouse but now agonizing over a range of options to revive flagging growth, on Tuesday said it appointed former Rovi Corp CEO and IBM veteran Alfred...
04:38 AM, Feb 08, 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: Mohammed Wasim is a young helpline operator at India's National Association for the Blind (NAB) who could only perceive brightness and lights, but the lack of ability to discern shapes meant living in a shapeless world where every small obstacle could prove a barrier. However, viSparsh, a belt-based sensor system (sparsh means touch in Hindi) created by a young team of engineers, could herald a revolutionary change for...
12:34 PM, Feb 06, 2012
New Delhi: Facebook India on Monday filed its compliance report before the Delhi court which had ordered it and 21 other websites to remove objectionable content from their websites. Google India also told the court that it has removed certain web pages from the Internet on which objections were raised by the petitioners. Meanwhile, Facebook, Yahoo and Microsoft told the court that they have no role to play in the...
12:30 PM, Feb 06, 2012
New Delhi: Kinect for Windows is finally here! On January 9th, Steve Ballmer announced at CES that Microsoft would be shipping Kinect for Windows on February 1. And finally, it hits! Microsoft in a blog post stated, "The version 1.0 of our SDK and runtime were made available for download, and distribution partners in our twelve launch countries are starting to ship Kinect for Windows hardware, enabling companies to start...
11:34 PM, Feb 01, 2012
Helsinki: Nokia, the world's largest cellphone maker by volume, is expected to remain barely in the black in the fourth quarter, with its new Windows Phone models yet to compensate for diving sales of its legacy smartphones. Nokia is expected to report fourth-quarter earnings per share falling 82 per cent from a year ago to 0.04 euros and to forecast a weak start to 2012, when it releases results at...
11:24 AM, Jan 26, 2012
Seattle: Microsoft Corp's fiscal second-quarter profit fell very slightly as lagging computer sales to cash-strapped consumers in the United States and Europe hurt its core Windows business. Companies and emerging markets are still hungry for new PCs, according to the latest data, but customers in mature markets are ditching their Windows-powered netbooks in favor of Apple Inc's iPad, Amazon.com Inc's Kindle or postponing a PC purchase until the economy improves....
04:18 PM, Jan 20, 2012
New Delhi: The Delhi High Court on Monday adjourned the hearing of the petition filed by Google and Facebook challenging the trial court's order to prosecute them for objectionable content, till January 19. Google, Facebook and 19 other social networking sites face legal action for alleged offences of promoting enmity between classes after the Government granted sanction to prosecute them on Friday. The Government on Friday told a Delhi court...
04:56 PM, Jan 16, 2012
New Delhi: The Delhi High Court will hear the case against social networking websites on Monday. This comes after Facebook and Google challenged the trial court's order to prosecute these companies for objectionable content. The government is expected to give its reply on Monday. Google, Facebook and 19 other social networking sites faced legal action for offences of promoting enmity between classes after the Government granted sanction to prosecute them...
08:41 AM, Jan 16, 2012
Las Vegas: Don't trash your keyboard and mouse just yet. But three companies at the International Consumer Electronics Show demonstrated depth-sensing cameras that let you to control your computer by moving your hands or body. Microsoft's Kinect add-on for the Xbox 360 console has already popularised these cameras for gaming. Now, the technology is being set loose for use on other devices. However, like many gadgets shown at the annual...
10:51 AM, Jan 14, 2012
New Delhi: The Government has given sanction for the prosecution of 21 social networking sites like Facebook, Google, Microsoft and Yahoo India in the ongoing spat between the companies and the Government of India over content regulation. The Centre told a Delhi court on Friday that there is sufficient material to proceed against the 21 social networking sites for offences of promoting enmity between classes and causing prejudice to national...
01:58 PM, Jan 13, 2012
Beijing: Dozens of workers assembling Xbox video game consoles climbed to a factory dormitory roof, and some threatened to jump to their deaths, in a dispute over job transfers that was defused but highlights growing labour unrest as China's economy slows. The dispute was set off after contract manufacturer Foxconn Technology Group announced it would close the assembly line for Microsoft Corp.'s Xbox 360 models at its plant in the...
11:42 AM, Jan 13, 2012
New York: Microsoft Corp has put its talks with media companies about an online subscription service for TV shows and movies on hold, according to people familiar with the discussions. The technology giant had been in intense talks with potential programming partners for over a year and was hoping to roll out the service in the next few months. But it pulled back after deciding that the licensing costs were...
11:47 AM, Jan 12, 2012
San Francisco: Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer struck a familiar chord Monday in his swan song at the International Consumer Electronics Show. Much of the 70-minute presentation revolved around Microsoft's work on software that Ballmer has been promising will make the company a bigger factor in the increasingly important market for smartphones and computer tablets. Microsoft Corp. hopes to make its biggest breakthrough with Windows 8, the next version of its...
01:55 PM, Jan 10, 2012
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