San Francisco: Google Inc launched a special service to allow people in Egypt to send Twitter messages by dialling a phone number and leaving a voicemail, as Internet access remains cut off in the country amid anti-government protests. "Like many people we've been glued to the news unfolding in Egypt and thinking of what we could do to help people on the ground," read a post on Google's official corporate...
11:16 AM, Feb 01, 2011
Not an SMS or a Facebook message, when was the last time you penned down a love letter the traditional way? Have you ever written a love letter at all in the SMS era?
05:28 PM, Jan 31, 2011
London: People with busy lives don't necessarily live longer, but they might feel as if they do, an Indian-origin researcher-led study has claimed. Maneesh Sahani and colleagues at University College London have found that our brains use the world around us to keep track of time, and the more there is going on, the slower time feels, the 'New Scientist' reported. Brains were thought to measure time by using some...
06:44 PM, Jan 30, 2011
Boston: Making introductions by email can be an unexpected minefield, according to Harvard Business Review. The Management Tip of the Day offers quick, practical management tips and ideas from Harvard Business Review and HBR.org (www.hbr.org). Any opinions expressed are not endorsed by Reuters. "Helping people make meaningful connections is a worthwhile task. But you need to consider the time and best interests of those you are connecting. If you've decided...
12:49 PM, Jan 20, 2011
Washington: It looked like an innocent e-mail Christmas card from the White House. But the holiday greeting that surfaced just before Christmas was a ruse by cyber criminals to steal documents and other data from law enforcement, military and government workers, particularly those involved in computer crime investigations. Analysts who have studied the malicious software said on Wednesday that hackers were able to use the e-mail to collect sensitive law...
04:47 PM, Jan 05, 2011
Rochester Hills: A Rochester Hills man who says he learned of his wife's affair by reading her e-mail on their computer faces trial February 7 on felony computer misuse charges. Thirty-three-year-old Leon Walker used his wife's password to get into her Gmail account. Clara Walker filed for a divorce, which was granted this month. Leon Walker tells The Oakland Press of Pontiac he was trying to protect the couple's children...
12:15 PM, Dec 28, 2010
Sydney: Scientists from New Zealand are developing a new system to alert pilots on flights via e-mails about volcanic eruptions by detecting the lightning their ash clouds trigger. The system, publicly unveiled by US researchers, uses data from the World Wide Lightning Location Network (WWLLN) to create automated e-mail alerts within minutes of suspicious lightning activity occurring near volcanoes. The WWLLN was founded by now retired University of Otago professor...
02:51 PM, Dec 17, 2010
London: Using the internet and an obsession with email is turning us into 'lab rats' looking for rewards, says an expert. Nicholas Carr, former executive editor of the Harvard Business Review, said that information overload is stopping people from concentrating on tasks as they search for "pellets of social interaction". The non-stop information overload also makes it impossible to think deeply in a syndrome that has been christened Divided Attention...
06:57 PM, Dec 08, 2010
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Disclaimer: I haven't used Facebook Messages yet. This is merely Gyaan I've gleaned from Google baba and coughed up for a quick read. I've ...
09:56 PM, Nov 16, 2010
New Delhi: Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg says the newly launched Facebook messaging system will soon replace the regular mail. "We spent lot of time building a handful of products to fit what we think the need is in a modern messaging system," said Zuckerberg in his fresh attack on rival Google. So what is the difference between the newly launched Facebook messaging system and the good old Gmail? The new...
07:47 PM, Nov 16, 2010
Houston: Popular social networking site Facebook on Monday night come out with an improved messaging platform which aims to provide users with more than just an e-mail application. The new messaging system envelopes e-mail, instant messages, Facebook messages and SMS to help users communicate faster and more seamlessly with their friends. Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg said the site is rolling out a whole new messaging system over the next few...
08:30 AM, Nov 16, 2010
Houston: Social networking site Facebook may soon offer e-mail services to its 500 million members to compete gmail and yahoomail, making it the largest such service on the planet. More significantly, the offering could lead to a fundamental transformation of e-mail. Yahoo, Google and Microsoft are already scrambling to retool their e-mail services to build them more around people's social connections. Facebook would have a tremendous advantage because it owns...
11:42 AM, Nov 14, 2010
Melbourne: Four Australian police officers were sacked and disciplinary action initiated against 15 others in connection with the circulation of racist emails wherein they joked about the electrocution of an Indian. While four have been sacked, one has been demoted, another five have been fined up to $ 3000 and placed on 12-month good behaviour bonds for their involvement in the case. Nine officers will front the disciplinary panel on...
09:29 AM, Oct 10, 2010
Melbourne: The Ministry of External Affairs on Saturday summoned the Australian High Commissioner over the racist e-mail scandal involving top Victorian police officers joking about an Indian train passenger's electrocution. In a shocking incident, top Australian police officers were caught in a racist e-mail scandal joking about the electrocution of an Indian train passenger and suggesting that it could be "a way to fix the Indian student problem" in Melbourne....
08:19 AM, Oct 09, 2010
New York: Imagine if hundreds of people were talking to you simultaneously about dozens of different topics and each was expecting an immediate response. You'd go crazy, or at least turn up the volume on your iPod. Yet that's what it can feel like when you look at your email inbox: a surfeit of questions, comments and come-ons that invite a speedy reply. We know that it's polite to respond...
01:22 PM, Sep 21, 2010
Climategate scandal involved the leaked e-mails from scientists at the University of East Anglia's CRU. ...
10:36 AM, Jul 08, 2010
A hoax statement sent from an email address closely resembling that of the prime minister's press advisor said that he is ready to resign with few conditions. ...
04:29 PM, May 28, 2010
Survey shows that 36 pc of all web users are from small towns like Kolhapur, Thrissur and Panipat. ...
01:28 PM, Apr 06, 2010
Survey shows that 36 pc of all web users are from small towns like Kolhapur, Thrissur and Panipat. ...
01:28 PM, Apr 06, 2010
Survey shows that 36 pc of all web users are from small towns like Kolhapur, Thrissur and Panipat. ...
01:28 PM, Apr 06, 2010
