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10:43 PM, Feb 11, 2012
Washington: Hacker group Anonymous Friday night took down the website of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). Though the CIA website was back in a few hours, but it seemed to be struggling to be fully on its feet at the time of filing this report. "CIA TANGO DOWN: https://www.cia.gov/ #Anonymous," the hacker group wrote on Twitter. But in a later tweet, @YourAnonNews, the Twitter account believed to be associated with...
01:25 PM, Feb 11, 2012
London: With growing worries about the threat of "cyber warfare," militaries around the world are racing to recruit the computer specialists they believe may be central to the conflicts of the 21st century. But whilst money is plentiful for new forces of "cyber warriors," attracting often individualistic technical specialists and hackers into military hierarchies is another matter. Finding the people to command them is also tough. After a decade of...
10:54 AM, Feb 11, 2012
Washington: It isn't often you see the words "love", "romance", and "Federal Reserve" in the same sentence. But on Friday, the US central bank and many economists who spend countless hours monitoring its decisions began their Valentine's Day flirtations a bit early. It started with Justin Wolfers, an economist at the University of Pennsylvania, who tweeted this morning: "You're my long-run target; my nominal anchor" - with the attached hashtag,...
10:10 AM, Feb 11, 2012
Shanghai: If anyone can pull off the labyrinthine deal between Alibaba Group and Yahoo Inc, it is Jack Ma, who founded the e-commerce group and within a decade unlocked China's huge online shopping potential. The former tour guide and English teacher, who is now worth around $1.6 billion according to Forbes and has dubbed himself 'China's Forrest Gump', built his e-commerce empire from scratch and has steered it through numerous...
03:20 PM, Feb 10, 2012
New Delhi: Criminal proceedings will continue against Yahoo India which had moved the Delhi High Court against a lower court order summoning it for allegedly hosting objectionable content. Refusing to stay the criminal proceedings against the website, Justice Suresh Kait declined to pass any order "at this stage" and fixed the matter for March 1, saying he will hear the case before the trial court hears it on March 13....
02:26 PM, Feb 10, 2012
Sao Paulo: A request for an injunction to stop Twitter users from alerting drivers to police roadblocks, radar traps and drunk-driving checkpoints could make Brazil the first country to take Twitter up on its plan to censor content at governments' requests. Twitter unveiled plans last month that would allow country-specific censorship of tweets that might break local laws. "As far as we know this is the first time that a...
10:32 AM, Feb 10, 2012
Taiwan: A man from Taiwan was found dead after playing a computer game for 23 hours at an internet cafe. Police found the body of 23-year-old Chen Rong-Yu slumped in a chair at the cafe in the Taipei area with his hands stretched out towards the keyboard and mouse, the Herald Sun reported. Cafe employees say Rong-Yu walked in late on Tuesday and sat down at a corner computer terminal....
03:41 PM, Feb 08, 2012
New Delhi: Continuing with its tweaks to the Facebook user interface Facebook has rolled out its new photo viewer to more users. The latest change in the Facebook photo viewer seems to be inspired by that in Google+. Quite like the Google+ photo viewer the interaction panel is to the right, instead of its previous position below the image. This update to the Facebook photo viewer comes a year after...
01:51 PM, Feb 08, 2012
Vienna: US social media group Facebook seems ready to publish categories of data it collects from users, an Austrian student group lobbying for stricter privacy rules said on Tuesday. Facebook had agreed in December to overhaul privacy protection for more than half a billion users outside North America after a three-month investigation found that its privacy policies were overly complex and lacked transparency. "This (data) access issue as well as...
05:57 PM, Feb 07, 2012
San Francisco: With Valentine's Day just a week away disappointed daters wondering what went wrong with the romance have a new way to discover why the relationship fizzled. A website called WotWentWrong provides a guided way to request and respond to feedback on why things didn't work out. "It's for the people who are evolved enough to really want to be mature about it and find out so that they...
12:14 PM, Feb 07, 2012
San Francisco: Looking for a promising career in a lousy economy? A new study suggests you're apt to find it in apps - the services and tools built to run on smartphones, computer tablets and Facebook's online social network. The demand for applications for everything ranging from games to quantum physics has created 466,000 jobs in the US since 2007, according to an analysis released Tuesday by technology trade group...
12:06 PM, Feb 07, 2012
New Delhi: The Google doodle commemorating the 200th birth anniversary of the greatest English novelist of the Victorian era features famous characters from Charles Dickens' novels. The British author created unforgettable characters such as Ebenezer Scrooge and David Copperfield. The doodle with a Victorian feel does not link to the usual Google search engine results but since it's about Dickens it instead directs users to the Google Books results page...
09:21 AM, Feb 07, 2012
London: The Internet is one of the most significant vehicles for promoting violent radicalism - more so than prisons, universities or places of worship, according to a UK parliamentary report. The Home Affairs Select Committee of the House of Commons report 'Roots of Violent Radicalism', said that according to witnesses, the Internet played a part in most, if not all, cases of violent radicalisation. Indian-origin British lawmaker Keith Vaz, chairman...
06:56 PM, Feb 06, 2012
Washington: Cannot resist your urge to tweet or check emails? Don't get surprised, as a new study has found that checking email and social media is more addictive than cigarettes and alcohol. US researchers who carried out an experiment to test the will power of 205 people, aged 18 to 85, in the German city of Wurtzburg found that most of them were more likely to give in to urge...
06:27 PM, Feb 06, 2012
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