New Delhi: Facebook users upset with the two-column layout of the Facebook Timeline, may have some reason to cheer. According to Inside Facebook, the social networking service is testing a new design with a small percentage of users that has the posts in one column instead of the current format where posts are staggered in two columns. There is also a narrower right column which displays activity modules. The timeline...
05:17 PM, Nov 01, 2012
Bangalore: Several key government websites were hacked late on Wednesday night. These included the websites of DRDO and five other government departments hacked. A site hosted by the advisor to the Prime Minister was also hacked. Algeria-based hackers have been blamed for the hacking. The message pasted on the websites after they had been compromised read: 'SanFour25, Algerian Hackers' minutes after the hacking. The biggest hack was on the site...
02:37 PM, Nov 01, 2012
New Delhi: Porn star and Bollywood actress Sunny Leone has emerged as the most dangerous celebrity in cyberspace, ahead of Katrina Kaif and Kareena Kapoor, as searching for her on the web is the most risky. In a study conducted by McAfee, Leone topped the list with 9.95 per cent chances of luring people into clicking on malicious links. Katrina, who was the most risky celeb in 2011, held the...
05:51 PM, Oct 30, 2012
New Delhi: India is among the top three fastest growing Internet markets in the world, a study by industry body Assocham and ComScore has said. "Among the Bric nations, India has been the fastest growing market adding over 18 million Internet users and growing at an annual rate of 41 per cent," the study said. The Internet user base in the country is approximately 125 million, the study added. "China...
02:41 PM, Oct 28, 2012
Beijing: A lengthy New York Times expose published on Friday claimed the family of Premier Wen Jiabao has amassed assets worth $2.7 billion through a web of investments, most of it accumulated after he rose to high office in 2002. Chinese censors swiftly blocked the Times' Chinese-language site that carried a translated version of the story, although Internet users with the technical knowledge could still access it by penetrating China's...
02:48 PM, Oct 26, 2012
Dubmin: Russia's leading internet search engine, Yandex, will take the fight to Google in emerging markets like Turkey in a bid to offset the inroads made by the US giant in its home market. Yandex founder and chief executive Arkady Volozh told Reuters on Friday the firm was likely to use its own experts to expand into new countries, but would not rule out acquisitions or partnership deals. "We are...
01:37 PM, Oct 20, 2012
Seoul: Yahoo Inc's South Korean operation said on Friday it will quit the country, underscoring its struggle against Google Inc and local competitors expanding aggressively into mobile advertising and online services. South Korea is the first Asian country Yahoo is leaving, the firm said. An industry pioneer and household Internet brand, it has been overshadowed by global rivals including Facebook Inc and Google in recent years. "Yahoo has faced several...
03:38 AM, Oct 20, 2012
Berlin: Twitter has for the first time blocked an account using a new tool that allows it to bar content in individual countries, shutting out a banned German neo-Nazi group at the behest of local authorities. Twitter spokesman Dirk Hensen told The Associated Press in an email on Thursday that the account @hannoverticker has been blocked only in Germany, where its content is considered illegal. "At the beginning of the...
07:06 AM, Oct 19, 2012
San Francisco: Google is opening a virtual window into the secretive data centres where an intricate maze of computers process Internet search requests, show YouTube video clips and distribute email for millions of people. The unprecedented peek is being provided through a new website unveiled on Wednesday at http://www.google.com/about/datacenters/gallery/#/ . The site features photos from inside some of the eight data centres that Google already has running in the US,...
07:01 PM, Oct 17, 2012
New Delhi: A white sperm whale looms on the background of the Google doodle for October 18 that commemorates the 161st anniversary of the publication of Herman Melville's landmark novel Moby-Dick. Google's Moby-Dick doodle depicts a scene from the novel and shows Captain Ahab commandeering a whaling boat with a harpoon in his hands ready to strike at the enigmatic white sperm whale. Moby-Dick is swimming and spouting in the...
05:11 PM, Oct 17, 2012
New Delhi: A majority of mobile phone users in India prefer unlimited Internet data plans to usage-based plans, a survey by Ernst & Young has found. "In India almost 54 per cent of the respondents prefer unlimited mobile data for a fixed price per month," the survey, conducted across 12 countries including the US, the UK, China, Australia and Russia, to highlight short- and medium-term issues faced by operators, said....
04:13 PM, Oct 14, 2012
Wellington: In a move bound to provoke US prosecutors and entertainment executives, indicted Megaupload founder Kim Dotcom is planning to launch a replacement of his shuttered website and a new online music service by year's end. The file-sharing site that Dotcom started in 2005 was one of the most popular online sites before US prosecutors shut it down and filed racketeering charges against Dotcom and six other Megaupload principals in...
01:03 PM, Oct 12, 2012
New Delhi: Google is adding 400,000 kilometres of roads from around the world to Google Maps Street View in what is its biggest update ever. With this Google is doubling the number of its Street View special collections. With this update Google has added more countries to Street View. Users can now explore Chiang Kai-shek Memorial Hall in Taiwan or Catherine Palace in Russia right on their device screens. No...
06:58 PM, Oct 11, 2012
New Delhi: Google has extended its free SMS chat service to Indian users. The Gmail SMS feature is now accessible to Indian users along with 51 other countries in Asia, Africa and North America. Google had first made this feature available to its users in some African countries in 2011. Using the free Gmail SMS service users can send text messages to mobile phones via Gmail Chat. Responses to the...
06:57 AM, Oct 11, 2012
San Francisco: Amazon.com Inc is producing its own movies and TV programming using the consumer tracking and data crunching skills it developed while becoming the world's largest Internet retailer. Essentially, Amazon is crowdsourcing the creation of original content - movies such as Zombies versus Gladiators and the children's TV series Magic Monkey Billionaire. The retailer hopes the approach will result in more hits and fewer flops than the traditional Hollywood...
06:14 PM, Oct 10, 2012
Kolkata: Ever since US programmer Ray Tomlinson sent the first email 40 years ago, the new communication tool has taken the world by storm, but it took another 20 years or so to reach the Indian shores, Indian scientists recall. "In October 1971, Tomlinson wrote a software and was able to transfer a message from one computer to another, making it the first networked email, much before the advent of...
12:33 PM, Oct 09, 2012
San Francisco: After struggling for years, in late 2010, Driving Sports TV, a scrappy, two-person video production outfit led by Ryan Douthit, finally began supporting itself with advertising income from YouTube. It didn't matter that the channel's production set was simply a green screen in Douthit's cramped garage in a leafy Seattle suburb; Driving Sports TV's revenues were roaring like the rally car engines it featured. Achieving self-sufficiency on YouTube...
01:50 PM, Oct 05, 2012
To mark the occasion of it achieving a billion monthly active users, Facebook released a video titled 'The Things That Connect Us' on Thursday that, somewhat abstractly, seeks to illustrate its ubiquity and utility in connecting people to one another. Directed by Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu (Babel, 21 Grams and Amores Perros), the video starts off with an empty red chair suspended in midair in a forest. Then it moves to...
06:09 AM, Oct 05, 2012
New York: More than a billion people now log into Facebook each month to check up on old friends, tag photos of new ones and post about politics, religion, cats or what their kids are doing. That's double the 500 million it hit in July 2010 - what now seems like a lifetime but was a little more than two years ago. August 2008 marked another big juncture, 100 million...
06:05 AM, Oct 05, 2012
