New Delhi: There is a strong possibility that you won't be able to indulge in your favourite internet activities like shopping and surfing due to a hacking group - Anonymous - which has threatened to shut down the net on Saturday. "Operation Global Blackout 2012 looks to shut down the Internet for a whole day tomorrow (Saturday) by disabling its core DNS servers, making websites inaccessible," said Interpol's Secretary General,...
09:14 PM, Mar 30, 2012
Srinagar: Mobile phones across the Kashmir Valley stopped functioning as service providers shut off connectivity as part of the high security drill for the 63rd Republic Day Thursday. Mobile phone services in Srinagar were withdrawn to prevent separatists from triggering electronically-controlled remote devices. "This is part of the standard security drill. The services will be restored immediately after the official parade ends here," an intelligence officer said. ...
10:55 AM, Jan 26, 2012
Hyderabad: Wednesday morning, the city (the world too) woke up to a day without Wikipedia. So whatever questions one had, they had to be shelved for a day because - the English version of Wikipedia went offline for 24 hours in protest against the provisions of the proposed US anti-piracy laws (Stop Online Piracy Act or SOPA as well as the Protect IP Act, or PIPA). Groaned a helpless Abhishek...
11:40 AM, Jan 19, 2012
New York: Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg has joined the growing chorus against the proposed anti-piracy bills in the US, saying the two "poorly thought out laws" are not the "right solutions" to the problem of piracy but will only harm the Internet. Zuckerberg posted his remarks against the Protect IP Act (PIPA) and the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) on his social networking website's wall. Within two hours, his post...
07:48 AM, Jan 19, 2012
New Delhi: January 18 - Internet Blackout Day - is a date that will live in ignorance, as the world's largest encyclopaedia Wikipedia started a 24-hour blackout of the English version of the website. Wikipedia joined other big and small websites in a protest against pending US legislation aimed at shutting down sites that share pirated movies and other content. Wikipedia and other proponents of a free Internet believe that...
12:10 AM, Jan 19, 2012
Wikipedia Co-founder Jimmy Wales says that the Stop Online Piracy Act is not needed - not in the US atleast. ...
01:57 PM, Jan 18, 2012
New Delhi: Most of us rely, heavily, on Wikipedia to get information on almost any topic, theme or subject. But in a protest against the proposed US anti-piracy legislation, Wikipedia has blacked itself out for 24 hours starting 10:30 AM (IST) on January 18. As a result, people are no longer able to access the content of English version of the site, and therefore facing an information blackout. But there...
01:03 PM, Jan 18, 2012
San Francisco: A blackout scheduled for Wednesday to protest against proposed legislation on online piracy has failed to get the support of the biggest Internet players. Despite calls for the participation of sites such as Facebook, Twitter and other big names, the biggest participants are the online encyclopedia Wikipedia and the social-news website Reddit. The situation shows that, while technology companies are concerned about the legislation, the House's Stop Online...
11:26 AM, Jan 18, 2012
New York: Can the world live without Wikipedia for a day? The planned shutdown of one of the Internet's most-visited sites is not sitting well with some of its volunteer editors, who say the protest of anti-piracy legislation could threaten the credibility of their work. "My main concern is that it puts the organization in the role of advocacy, and that's a slippery slope," said editor Robert Lawton, a Michigan...
08:41 AM, Jan 18, 2012
The blast had resulted in a blackout in dozens of villages in the region. ...
11:10 PM, Nov 22, 2009
Mumbai's restaurants will switch off exterior lights every Monday, Thursday. ...
11:22 AM, Aug 20, 2008
Adelaide: Former Indian captain Sourav Ganguly has blasted the Indian team for putting up an ordinary batting display on a lifeless track at the Adelaide Oval in the fourth and the final Test against Australia on Thursday. Ganguly was baffled by the abject surrender of the Indian batsmen who, barring Virat Kohli (116), failed to score on a track which was the closest to the pitches in the subcontinent. Another...
11:22 PM, Apr 15, 2008
Hyderabad: Indian Test batsman VVS Laxman is desperate to help India regain their No 1 Test title, and has targeted the West Indies series starting November 6 as well as the tour of Australia later this year. India traveled to England this summer as the top Test side, but a 0-4 hammering saw then slip to third in the ICC's rankings for Test teams, behind England and South Africa. It ...
02:45 AM, Mar 15, 2008
Dubai: The pitch of the Galle Test between Sri Lanka and Australia has been rated as poor by the match referee Chris Broad, the International Cricket Council announced on Monday. In accordance with the ICC Pitch and Outfield Monitoring Process, which came into effect in 2006 and applies to all Tests, one-dayers and T20s, Broad submitted a report to the ICC expressing his concerns over the quality of the pitch....
01:14 AM, Feb 27, 2008
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