New Delhi: A Delhi court on Monday reserved its order on the plea of Facebook India seeking removal of its name from the civil suit against various social networking sites for allegedly displaying objectionable content. Administrative Civil Judge Parveen Singh reserved his order for May 22 after Facebook India said that it is not responsible for the contents appearing on website, facebook.com. The court was hearing a petition moved by...
08:13 PM, May 14, 2012
New Delhi: A Delhi court hearing a civil case against various social networking sites for allegedly displaying objectionable content on Wednesday ordered that summons be served to US-based social networking site, Facebook through email. Meanwhile petitioner's counsel Santosh Pandey moved an application seeking the government should be brought as a plaintiff for proper adjudication of the case as it is related to national issues. Administrative Civil Judge Parveen Singh order...
01:27 AM, Apr 19, 2012
New Delhi: A Delhi court on Wednesday ordered for serving summons to US-based social networking site Facebook through e-mail to respond to a suit which seeks action against it for allegedly hosting objectionable contents. Administrative Civil Judge Parveen Singh ordered serving of summons to Facebook through e-mail within three days as the internet giant has made no representation to the court and several summons issued against it have gone unserved....
06:32 PM, Apr 18, 2012
New Delhi: US-based search engine Google Inc, facing a civil lawsuit along with 21 other websites for allegedly hosting objectionable contents on its web posts, has told a Delhi court that the blanket ban and monitoring of material would be against the right to freedom of speech and expression guaranteed under the Indian Constitution. In a reply, filed before Administrative Civil Judge Parveen Singh, Google Inc said, "Its mission is...
11:25 AM, Mar 04, 2012
Sao Paulo: Facebook's popularity in Brazil has exploded over the past year, and the company may have its biggest competitor to thank for it. In its recent initial public offering filing, Facebook said its number of active users in Brazil had nearly tripled in 2011, finally placing it ahead of Google Inc's Orkut service as the No. 1 social network in the country. "I can't think of an example where...
08:13 AM, Feb 16, 2012
Mumbai: Four accused, acquitted by a local court in the case of kidnap and murder of teenager Adnan Patrawala, were on Tuesday released from the Arthur Road jail in South Mumbai after they spent over four years behind the bars. "The four were allowed to go home this afternoon after they completed all the legal procedures," a jail official said. The family and friends of the youths were eagerly awaiting...
03:36 PM, Jan 31, 2012
Mumbai: Four people accused in the Adnan Patrawala murder case were let off by a Mumbai court on Monday. The accused Sujit Nair, Amit Kaushal, Ayush Bhat, Rajeev Dhariya were acquitted after the prosecution failed to produce evidence in the court linking them to Adnan's murder. Five people were arrested for Adnan's murder with one of the accused being a minor and his case is being tried in a juvenile...
02:03 PM, Jan 30, 2012
Davos: Ahead of a court hearing, technology giant Google facing controversy in India allegedly for hosting obscene and objectionable content on Thursday made it clear that it is not possible for the company to monitor everything on its website. Google and Facebook are among 21 companies whose executives have been summoned to appear in person in a lower court in Delhi on March 13 for allegedly hosting obscene and objectionable...
10:11 AM, Jan 28, 2012
New Delhi: Google has received government requests for the removal of 358 items from its services, including YouTube and Orkut, during the January-June period, according to a report by the Internet search giant. As many as 255 item removal requests cited the government criticism as the reason, said the Google Transparency Report. The government had asked Google to remove 236 items from Orkut and 19 items from YouTube for the...
10:18 PM, Dec 07, 2011
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Ever since its inception in 2005 - Facebook has come a long way. A lot has changed in the interface, the applications have doubled and ...
07:35 PM, Aug 23, 2011
New Delhi: Internet giant Google's social networking platform Orkut has lost yet another turf to the surge of Facebook. India, one of the few countries where Orkut retained the top spot amongst social networking websites, now has more people logging on to Facebook, says marketing research company comScore. According to comScore, Facebook grabbed the number one ranking in the social networking category for the first time in July with 20.9...
11:26 AM, Aug 25, 2010
Brazilian prosecutors opened an investigation into Google over pedophilia, defamation and false identity on Orkut. ...
11:49 AM, Jul 22, 2010
While social networking is a great thing, some of your actions there can come back to haunt you. ...
04:23 PM, Jul 14, 2010
A new survey has thrown up some warnings, saying that millions of us leave ourselves prone to cybercrimes. ...
11:27 AM, May 05, 2010
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