To the many people who crossed his path on a tropical island in Belize, it was apparent John McAfee's life had taken some bizarre turns in the last few years. The anti-virus software guru, who started McAfee Associates in 1989, has been in hiding since police said they wanted to question him about the weekend murder of his neighbour, fellow American Gregory Faull, with whom McAfee had quarrelled. Despite his...
01:51 PM, Nov 16, 2012
London: The BBC reached a settlement on Thursday with the Conservative politician wrongly implicated in a child sex abuse scandal. The BBC has already apologised for linking 70-year-old Alistair McAlpine, a member of the House of Lords, to child sex abuse that happened decades ago in Wales. The mistaken report, broadcast nearly two weeks ago, has caused turmoil within BBC management ranks and led to the resignation of its chief....
09:06 AM, Nov 16, 2012
Belize City: Police in Belize want to question US anti-computer virus software pioneer John McAfee in connection with the murder of a neighbour he had been quarrelling with, but they say he remains a person of interest at this time and is not a suspect. McAfee, who invented the anti-virus software that bears his name, has homes and businesses in Belize, and is believed to have settled in the country...
10:54 AM, Nov 13, 2012
Quick Heal is a completely homegrown anti-virus software company that's not only beaten big, multi-billion dollar competitors like McAfee and Symantec, but is also taking back the fight to their turfs in other countries around the world. It has come a long way since 1995, when the first version was released for Rs 500, written entirely by Sanjay Katkar, 41, then fresh out of college. His brother, Kailash, 46, a...
12:01 PM, Nov 12, 2012
New Delhi: With the view to be more transparent with the content posted by users, Twitter has introduced a new copyright policy that has made a change in the way Twitter responds to copyright complaints. Twitter will now withheld any copyright-infringing tweet with a takedown notice explaining it's being withheld due to a complaint, instead of deleting it. In the past, Twitter used to delete copyright-infringing tweets and the URL...
04:53 PM, Nov 05, 2012
New Delhi: The future of thousands of students in the country is at stake. As many as 300 institutes in the country, around 50 of which are in Delhi, have been blacklisted by the All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE). In some colleges, students said that after six months of admission they got to know that their course wasn't recognised by AICTE. The institutes provide technical courses like MBA,...
09:04 AM, Oct 26, 2012
New Delhi: Actor-director Ben Affleck says he was worried about missing important things while adapting the true story of the dramatic escape of six US diplomats from Tehran during the 1979 Iran hostage crisis in 'Argo'. A CIA man Tony Mendez, played by Affleck in the film, teamed up with a Hollywood make-up man and a producer to rescue the six diplomats hiding in the Canadian embassy by posing as...
03:52 PM, Oct 24, 2012
Sandeep Patil and Chandrakant Pandit are the new heads of MCA. ...
11:34 PM, Oct 05, 2012
Seattle: Microsoft Corp is launching its own news operation as part of its new-look MSN website when Windows 8 launches later this month. The world's largest software company is making a "big, multi-million dollar investment" to create a "decent-sized media operation," said Bob Visse, general manager, MSN Product Management Group. Microsoft sold its 50 per cent stake in news website MSNBC.com in July to longtime partner NBCUniversal, now majority-owned by...
12:26 AM, Oct 02, 2012
New MCA president, Ravi Savant said that the association would strive hard to bring back the glorious days of Mumbai cricket. ...
03:14 PM, Sep 15, 2012
Abhishek Nayar and Dhawal Kulkarni have been reprimanded by the MCA and dropped for a pre-season tournament in Nagpur. ...
02:47 PM, Sep 14, 2012
New York: Emma Watson is the favorite celebrity bait for cyber criminals trying to lure Internet users. McAfee said Monday that the 'Harry Potter' star is the "most dangerous" celebrity to search for online. That's because many sites use Watson to trick users into downloading malicious software or to steal personal information. When searching for the 22-year-old Watson, there's a one-in-eight chance of landing on a malicious site. This is...
05:02 PM, Sep 10, 2012
Thiruvananthapuram: A 21-year-old youth was hacked to death by a gang at Nedumcaud near Karamana in the wee hours of Wednesday. The deceased was identified as Saji from Thirumala. The youth was first seen lying injured near Nedumcaud school by a newspaper boy, who informed the matter to the Karamana police. The police first thought that the youth was inebriated. But when they arrived on the spot, they found that...
04:29 PM, Sep 06, 2012
Venice: Terrence Malick divides opinion like almost no other director working today, and To the Wonder, his impressionistic and virtually dialogue-free story of love and faith, was booed as loudly as it was cheered at the Venice film festival. The movie is the reclusive American director's second in two years, after The Tree of Life won the Palme d'Or for best picture at the 2011 Cannes film festival. To the...
11:52 AM, Sep 03, 2012
London: Hollywood heartthrob Ryan Gosling, who has dated actresses like Blake Lively and Rachel McAdams in the past, thinks being a good listener makes him such a hit with ladies. The 31-year-old actor is currently dating Cuban actress Eva Mendes, reported Sun Online "If I have any particular appeal to women, maybe it's because I listen more than other guys do and appreciate how they think and feel about things....
03:18 PM, Aug 27, 2012
Ravi Savant on Friday defeated Prof Ratnakar Shetty by 10 votes to five to take over the reins of MCA. ...
09:02 PM, Aug 24, 2012
Bangalore: Comcast, the parent company of NBC, has bought out Microsoft's 50 per cent stake in MSNBC.com for a reported $300 million to assume full control of the news website. "Today we're taking on a new name - NBCNews.com. While our name is changing, our commitment is not," Jennifer Sizemore, editor-in-chief of NBCNews.com, said in a letter posted on the company's website. The New York Times reported the transaction was...
07:09 PM, Jul 16, 2012
Tendulkar junior made a splash recently scoring a century in a local match to take his team into the final. ...
02:39 PM, Jun 26, 2012
Kolkata: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee once again batted for Bollywood star Shah Rukh Khan when she requested Union Minister Vilasrao Deshmukh for reconsideration of the Maharashtra Cricket Association imposing 5-year ban on the entry of IPL franchisee Kolkata Knight Riders owner to the Wankhede stadium. Deshmukh is the president of the Maharashtra Cricket Association. Banerjee took up the matter with Deshhmukh, the Union Science and Technology Minister who...
12:31 PM, Jun 03, 2012
