Washington: "Cloud", "team" and "Mexico" - these are some of the words used by government spies to scour the social networking sites and online media for evidence of threats to the US, it has emerged. The intriguing list, released by the US Department of Homeland Security under the Freedom of Information Act, also includes obvious choices such as "attack", "al Qaeda", "terrorism" and "dirty bomb", the 'Daily Mail' reported. Department...
06:52 PM, May 27, 2012
Chennai: A software engineer couple in Chennai have been troubleshooting all 'trash' problems. Chennai grapples with over 3,200 tonnes of solid waste everyday and much of it is recyclable. This struck two young software engineers, Sujatha and Jegan, the couple who started Kuppathotti.com in November, 2011. Kuppathotti, when translated in Tamil means a 'trash can'. This eco-friendly initiative also helps some souls to make a quick buck. The process is...
10:20 AM, May 23, 2012
New Delhi: The preview copy of the director Quashik Mukherjee's acclaimed film 'Gandu' has been leaked on YouTube. The film is about an aspiring rapper Gandu who is frustrated with his life and poor Kolkata neighbourhood. He steals money from his mother and has a rickshaw puller friend called Ricksha. The two are the partners in everything. They are addicted to drugs which hampers there sense of deciding what is...
02:24 PM, May 22, 2012
New Delhi: Rounding off the last of the Xperia phones to be announced is the Sony Xperia P, which is up for pre-order, right now on Infibeam.com for Rs 25,500. The phone will be available from May 25 onwards across the country. The Xperia P is a slightly tamed version of the Xperia S and will feature a 4-inch Reality Display that Sony claims is the brightest on any screen,...
10:59 AM, May 21, 2012
Beijing: Online shopping transactions in China will surpass those in Japan in 2012 and the US by 2013 to become the world's top most, a report has forecast. The China Business Development Report Forecast (2011-2012) was released this week by the National Academy of Economic Strategy under the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, the China Daily reported. The report, however, said that the thriving online market was not enough to...
10:21 AM, May 20, 2012
New Delhi: With the Indian Certificate of Secondary Education (ICSE) and the Indian School Certificate (ISC) results to be declared at 03:00 pm on May 19, the wait for students will finally be over. Candidates can check their results at http://www.cisce.myschool.in.com. Principals have been given personalised passwords to view results of their schools. The CDs containing the results have already reached the respective schools. To get your individual results on...
12:41 PM, May 19, 2012
San Francisco: Twitter will honour requests from users who do not want their online behaviour tracked, the company said on Thursday, in contrast with Web companies such Google Inc and Facebook Inc whose business models rely heavily on collecting user data. Twitter said it will officially support "Do Not Track," a standardised privacy initiative that has been heavily promoted by the US Federal Trade Commission, online privacy advocates and Mozilla,...
08:02 PM, May 18, 2012
Based on today's world, where online dating is as common as cheese, both Aryan and Alisha luck out as Worddiva is a 28-year-old lawyer Alisha Menon and Wordfreak is a 25-year-old architect Aryan Chawla. By coincidence they both not only live in Mumbai but are also gorgeous and rich to boot. Alisha and Aryan meet each other at a blind date and fall for each other like a ton of...
05:18 PM, May 18, 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 York/London General Motors Inc's decision to stop advertising on Facebook may be a wake-up call for the No. 1 social network, but top advertising executives say it's far too early to know if the site will take off as an advertising platform. "There's a lot of potential but it's not a slam-dunk," said Martin Sorrell, chief executive of WPP Plc, the world's largest advertising agency. "Showing the impact of...
12:55 PM, May 18, 2012
Detroit/San Francisco: General Motors Co said on Tuesday it will stop advertising on Facebook, even as the social networking website prepares to go public, with a source familiar with the matter saying the automaker had decided Facebook's ads had little impact on consumers. The decision by GM, the third-largest advertiser in the United States, marks the first highly visible crack in Facebook's strategy and underscores doubts about whether advertising on...
02:31 PM, May 16, 2012
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The State Government has accorded official sanction for the City Corporation to adopt online procedures in all the 12 offices under it for sanctioning work permit on a proposed building, including processing of application, scrutiny and decision finalisation, thereby giving impetus to a drive for more transparency and avoiding delay in results.The Corporation had made a formal request to the Government to allow switch over to the online system...
12:02 PM, May 11, 2012
New York: Whether it is photos, personal status or unwanted comments, most Americans think people 'overshare' personal information online and a third admit not everything they post is true. A survey for Intel Corporation on mobile etiquette and digital sharing showed that 90 per cent of Americans think too much is being divulged, and nearly half feel overwhelmed by all the all the data that is out there. One in...
12:08 PM, May 10, 2012
San Francisco: Facebook Inc unveiled a new hub for consumers to find games and other apps on the social network, including its first storefront for selling paid apps, in the company's latest effort to expand the ways it makes money from its massive audience. The new App Centre, which Facebook said will launch in the next few weeks, comes as the company is preparing an initial public offering that would...
10:59 AM, May 10, 2012
New Delhi: The recently unveiled mid-range Android phone from Sony - Xperia U - is now available online for sale. Online retailers like Flipkart and Letsbuy are selling the Sony Xperia U smartphone at Rs 16,499 and Rs 17,399, respectively. However, the company said that it will (officially) announce the availability of the Xperia U handset sometime this month. The Xperia U was unveiled at the Mobile World Congress 2012,...
04:19 PM, May 07, 2012
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