San Francisco: Four out of five Facebook Inc users have never bought a product or service as a result of advertising or comments on the social network site, a Reuters/Ipsos poll shows, in the latest sign that much more needs to be done to turn its 900 million customer base into advertising dollars. The online poll also found that 34 per cent of Facebook users surveyed were spending less time...
07:55 AM, Jun 05, 2012
London: Over two decades after 'Satanic Verses' sparked a never-ending controversy and provoked a 'fatwa' for his head, author Salman Rushdie has only one thing to say to his detractors: 'I did not write it for the mullahs'. The India-born controversial writer who has lived for years under the shadow of his 1988 book, now liberally jokes about the whole issue. Speaking at the Hay Festival of Literature and the...
09:20 PM, Jun 04, 2012
New Delhi: Asus has announced two new notebooks - the ASUS TAICHI and ASUS Transformer Book at Computex Taipei. Asus TAICHI - dual screens for a notebook and a multi-touch tablet in one - is touted to be slim and ultraportable. Both 11.6-inch and 13.3-inch models have a double-sided LED-backlit IPS/FHD display. The device has a touch screen on the outside of the lid. With the lid open, the Asus...
04:20 PM, Jun 04, 2012
Dhaka: Bangladeshi police on Sunday launched a process to charge a 21-year-old university student for sedition after he posted a comment on Facebook alleging Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina's hand in the mysterious disappearance of an opposition politician. "Sohel Mollah (the suspect) is now in jail as we initiated a process for his indictment on sedition charges for threatening the prime minister," police chief of northern Mymensingh Gola Kibria said. He...
03:50 PM, Jun 04, 2012
Taipei: Acer has introduced its Windows 8 Ultrabook devices - the Aspire S7 series - at Computex Taipei. Available in two sizes, 13.3-inch and 11.6-inch, these are touch-enabled ultrabooks. Both are said to have a sleek aluminum metallic unibody design. The larger model additionally sports a glossy, sculpted glass cover, thereby delivering a trendy and elegant appearance. With the aluminum unibody design, the S7 Ultrabooks are slim and light. The...
10:32 AM, Jun 04, 2012
Pulsar aficionados, the wait is over! Bajaj dealerships have started accepting bookings for the new Pulsar 200NS. The booking can be made for Rs 5000. The Pune dealers have confirmed that the on-road price is Rs 94,280. Deliveries are expected to commence in 10-15 days. The 200NS is Bajaj's latest motorcycle for the performance enthusiasts. It has a 199.5cc single cylinder liquid-cooled engine which produces 23.52PS of power and 18.3Nm...
08:16 AM, Jun 03, 2012
New York: Facebook is letting its nearly 1 billion users vote on changes to its privacy policy beginning on Friday. This is the second time Facebook Inc. is letting users vote on policy changes. The first time was in 2009 when Facebook was a much smaller, privately held company with about 200 million users. The vote is over updates the company announced in May, a week before its initial public...
10:59 AM, Jun 02, 2012
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
New York: Thousands of authors can sue Google Inc in a class-action lawsuit over its plan to create the world's largest digital book library, a federal judge ruled on Thursday. US Circuit Judge Denny Chin in Manhattan also rejected Google's bid to dismiss claims by The Authors Guild and several groups representing photographers and graphic artists, which would have forced their members to sue individually. Plaintiffs in the seven-year-old case...
12:58 PM, Jun 01, 2012
Manu Bhagavan is associate professor in the Department of History at Hunter College and the Graduate Center, the City University of New York. He is the author or (co-)editor of four other titles, including Heterotopias: Nationalism and the Possibility of History in South Asia and Claiming Power from Below: Dalits and the Subaltern Question in India. Here is an extract from his new book, 'The Peacemakers,' published by Harper Collins...
11:54 AM, Jun 01, 2012
Moscow: VKontakte, one of Russia's most-popular social networks, has postponed its initial public offering indefinitely after the flotation of the world's largest social network Facebook took a hammering. "The Facebook IPO has destroyed the faith of many private investors so VK's IPO is postponed for an indefinite term," VKontakte founder Pavel Durov wrote in his Twitter page. Durov holds 12 per cent of VKontakte and has a right to vote...
11:07 AM, May 31, 2012
New Delhi: Facebook India's plea for dropping its name from a suit for action against social networking websites for hosting alleged objectionable content was on Wednesday dismissed by a Delhi court which held it cannot be said that the company has no say in running the site facebook.com. Administrative Civil Judge Parveen Singh dismissed the company's plea for deletion of its name, rejecting its contention that Facebook India does not...
04:23 AM, May 31, 2012
San Francisco: Google will try to win more converts to a computer operating system revolving around its popular Chrome Web browser with a new wave of lightweight laptops built by Samsung Electronics. Tuesday's release of the next-generation Chromebooks will give Google and Samsung another opportunity to persuade consumers and businesses to buy an unconventional computer instead of machines running on familiar software by industry pioneers Microsoft Corp. and Apple Inc....
06:51 PM, May 30, 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
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