Jerusalem: The hostilities between Israel and Hamas have found a new battleground: social media. The Israeli Defence Forces and Hamas militants have exchanged fiery tweets throughout the fighting in a separate war to influence public opinion. Shortly after it launched its campaign Wednesday by killing Hamas' top military commander Ahmed Jabari, the Israeli military's media office announced a "widespread campaign on terror sites & operatives in the #Gaza Strip" on...
10:16 AM, Nov 16, 2012
New York: Indicating a growing trend of the government surveillance of Internet activities of people and organisations, India sought confidential web user details in as many as 2,319 cases from Google in the first six months of 2012. Besides, the number of items sought to be removed from Google's various internet platforms such as YouTube videos, search results, images and web pages, more than doubled to 596 in the six-month...
12:04 PM, Nov 15, 2012
San Francisco:: The latest version of Microsoft's Web browser is now available to the vast audience connecting to the Internet on personal computers running on the Windows 7 operating system. The redesigned browser, Internet Explorer 10, made its debut last month when Microsoft released Windows 8, which makes dramatic changes to an operating system that has been powering PCs for decades. Internet Explorer 10 initially is being introduced Tuesday to...
11:27 AM, Nov 14, 2012
New Delhi: Continuing with its tradition of getting wrangled into privacy issues with new features, Facebook has launched pages for couples. Much like the recently revamped friendship pages, the Facebook couples pages are joint digital profiles for couples that tracks all Facebook content connecting the two users in a relationship. The couples pages not only combine photos and posts in which a user and his/her partner are tagged but also...
09:15 AM, Nov 14, 2012
New Delhi: The doodle on the Google India home page on Children's Day has been created by Arun Kumar Yadav, a class 9 Kendriya Vidyalaya student from Chandigarh. Arun was selected as the winner from amongst 13 finalists chosen from over two lakh entries from more than 1000 schools across 60 cities in India. The Doodle 4 Google winning entry featured on the Google India home page on November 14...
06:22 AM, Nov 14, 2012
New Delhi: Born on November 12 1840, Auguste Rodin is recognised as the most important modernist sculptor in France during the 1880s and became world-renowned by the turn of the century for his mastery of the human form and use of light and shadow in his figurative sculptures. His popular works such as Le Penseur (The Thinker) and Le Baiser (The Kiss) are widely used as symbols of human emotion...
01:02 PM, Nov 12, 2012
New Delhi: Born on November 12 1840, Auguste Rodin is recognised as the most important modernist sculptor in France during the 1880s and became world-renowned by the turn of the century for his mastery of the human form and use of light and shadow in his figurative sculptures. His popular works such as Le Penseur (The Thinker) and Le Baiser (The Kiss) are widely used as symbols of human emotion...
11:49 AM, Nov 12, 2012
New Delhi: The coveted Samsung Galaxy S III, which became the world's best-selling smartphone model last quarter, pushing aside Apple's iPhone, is now available on Kaunsa.com for Rs 29,999. It seems to be a good deal as the same model is available for purchase on the Samsung India e-store for Rs 35,499. According to the e-commerce site, the smartphone will be delivered in 7 to 12 days. The phone features...
11:19 AM, Nov 12, 2012
San Francisco: Google Inc said several of its online services have been blocked in China. Traffic to Google's services in China dropped sharply beginning Friday evening there, according to an online "Transparency Report" website operated by Google, which provides updates about access to its services in different parts of the world. Among the sites affected were Google's search engine and its Gmail web email product. The disruptions come as China's...
05:31 AM, Nov 10, 2012
Vatican City: He already has a billion followers. Now, Pope Benedict XVI will join the Twitter-sphere, tweeting from a personal account along with the world's celebrities, leaders and ordinary folk. Vatican spokesman the Rev. Federico Lombardi made the announcement Thursday, saying details about Benedict's handle and other information will come when the Vatican officially launches the account, perhaps before the end of the year. The 85-year-old Benedict sent his first...
07:49 AM, Nov 09, 2012
San Francisco: Twitter says it mistakenly reset the passwords of some users as part of a routine security check-up. Thursday's mix-up triggered warnings on technology blogs and in tweets that the online messaging service had been attacked by computer hackers. Twitter sought to clear up the confusion with a post on its website a few hours after it sent out emails alerting some users that their accounts had been compromised....
07:44 AM, Nov 09, 2012
Singapore: Google launched a service on Thursday it hopes will push millions of people in the developing world to access the Internet - and Google's ads - via basic mobile phones. Google is launching the service, called Free Zone, first in the Philippines via local carrier Globe Telecom. The service allows phones with an Internet connection but limited functionality to access basic Google products like search, email and its social...
05:27 PM, Nov 08, 2012
New Delhi: Looking for an online archive of primary research material on South Asia? Now, here's a resource to uncover the history of the region with digital access to over five million pages of primary and secondary sources. Named South Asia Archive, the resource spanning from 1750s to 1950s brings together documents from across India, Pakistan, Myanmar, Afghanistan and Bangladesh. The archive includes a diverse collection of reports from colonial...
01:19 PM, Nov 08, 2012
New Delhi: The government has decided to crack the whip on fraudulent multi-level marketing companies that have duped hundreds of investors in the country by blocking their websites and tracking their online transactions. Corporate Affairs Ministry, the nodal department in this regard, has decided that its investigative arm - Serious Fraud Investigation Office (SFIO) - will coordinate with Department of Information Technology and Central Economic Intelligence Bureau (CEIB) to identify...
12:29 PM, Nov 08, 2012
New Delhi: According to a new report from TechCrunch, consumer adoption of Android is increasing six times faster than iPhone adoption. The fact came to light when KPCB analyst Mary Meeker, who apparently publishes her Internet Trends report once a year, delivered a presentation during an event at Bloomberg's SF headquarters in honour of Kleiner Perkins portfolio company Lending Club. The report states, "Android phone adoption is ramping up six...
12:34 PM, Nov 07, 2012
New Delhi: A new cyber jurisprudence, having no political boundaries, needs to be evolved to deal with Internet crime, Telecom Minister Kapil Sibal said today. Terming the Internet governance as oxymoron, he also said Internet cannot co-exist with the concept of governance. "Internet Governance is an oxymoron. Internet, by its very nature, cannot coexist with the concept of 'governance', which relates to a system designed for dealing with the issues...
10:20 AM, Nov 07, 2012
New Delhi: A new cyber jurisprudence, having no political boundaries, needs to be evolved to deal with Internet crime, Telecom Minister Kapil Sibal said on Tuesday. Terming the Internet governance as oxymoron, he also said Internet cannot co-exist with the concept of governance. "Internet Governance is an oxymoron. Internet, by its very nature, cannot coexist with the concept of 'governance', which relates to a system designed for dealing with the...
08:23 PM, Nov 06, 2012
Ahmedabad: The battle for Gujarat has intensified with just a month to go for the polls. The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and the Congress are pulling out all stops when it comes to campaigning. Everything from the internet to VCDs to Chief Minister Narendra Modi's own channel is being used to woo voters. A DVD shows a mimic of Narendra Modi admitting the failures of the BJP government in Gujarat...
09:56 AM, Nov 05, 2012
New Delhi: Imagine getting email and data over the radio. A 22-year-old has developed a software that lets one do just that. Radio reaches every corner of India. Small transistors are cheap and easily available. Vinny Lohan has found a way to send computer data over normal radio waves. He believes that the idea could get all India online in a jiffy. "Computers are all about zeros and ones. Be...
08:59 AM, Nov 05, 2012
London: Supermodel Kate Moss says she stumbled upon rocker husband Jamie Hince while she was 'googling men'. "Jamie's amazing. Basically, he turned up. I was at my friend's house in the South of France, and we were Googling men. And I went, 'Ooh, I like the look of him.' A friend set us up. He turned up, and we spent the next four days together. And after we finally woke...
12:03 PM, Nov 04, 2012
