London: New eavesdropping technology could allow government agencies to 'silently record' conversations on internet chat services like Skype. Until now, so called voice over internet protocol (VoIP) services have been difficult to tap into, because of the way they send information over the web. The services convert analogue audio signals into digital data packets, which are then sent in a way that is costly and complex for third parties to...
04:21 PM, Nov 22, 2012
San Francisco: Facebook Inc is proposing to combine user data with that of recently acquired photo-sharing service Instagram, and will loosen restrictions on emails between members of the social network. Facebook also said on Wednesday it is proposing to scrap a 4-year old process that can allow the social network's roughly 1 billion users to vote on changes to its policies and terms of services. Facebook said it may share...
10:52 AM, Nov 22, 2012
New Delhi: Google is constantly upping the ante against Apple when it comes to its services. According to GigaOm, Google is working on an alternative to Apple's AirPlay service. The first step towards this was taken in the recent launch of YouTube's AirPlay-like video beaming. This allows users to 'send' a clip from the Android YouTube app to a Google TV set or set-top-box. Google product manager Timbo Drayson told...
01:50 PM, Nov 21, 2012
In Jamshedpur, thanks to Shahbaz Nadeem's five-star performance with the ball, Jharkhand are eyeing an outright victory against Goa. ...
06:54 PM, Nov 19, 2012
New Delhi: One person has been killed in the fire in the Himalaya House, a commercial building in central Delhi's Connaught Place area on Monday. The fire broke out at about 6.20 this morning on the 5th and 6th floors. The building houses several commercial offices. All points leading to the building on Kasturba Gandhi Marg have been cordoned off. The cause of the fire is yet to be ascertained....
12:25 PM, Nov 19, 2012
New Delhi: A major fire broke out at Himalaya House on KG Marg in central Delhi on Monday morning. The fire broke out on the fifth and the sixth floors of the building, officials said. Delhi Fire Services Director AK Sharma said that the fire broke out after some initial problem in "disconnecting electricity". Officials say the fire is getting worse despite 38 fire engines tending to it. The fire...
08:27 AM, Nov 19, 2012
New Delhi: Delhi Metro services will stop three hours before the normal time of 11 PM on November 13 on account of Diwali. On November 15 next, Delhi Metro will make 200 extra train trips as it anticipates huge rush on 'Bhai Duj'. On Tuesday, the last Metro train service will start at 8:00 PM from terminal stations of all the six lines - Dilshad Garden, Rithala, Jahangir Puri, Huda...
11:30 AM, Nov 10, 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
Islamabad: Authorities have agreed to allow mobile phone services between Pakistan and India though certain issues remain to be settled, a Pakistani parliamentary panel has been informed by officials. The Standing Committee on Commerce of the National Assembly or lower house of Parliament was told by officials of the Ministry of Information Technology on Thursday about the move to allow mobile phone services between the two countries. The panel expressed...
02:48 PM, Nov 09, 2012
New Delhi: Finance Minister P Chidambaram on Thursday said that the Centre will soon bring in a major change in the taxation system in the country. Speaking to reporters, Chidambaram said, "We are moving towards bringing a major change in the taxation system in the country. We are working on the GST." GST is the Goods and Services Tax that, if implemented, will replace all other indirect taxes levied on...
06:00 PM, Nov 08, 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
Hyderabad: Commonwealth Games bronze medallist Amandeep Singh of the Railways and 2009 Asian Championship gold medallist Nanao Singh of the Services team won their pre-quarterfinal matches to be on course to clash in the championship round. Round three saw both the pugilists defeat their respective opponents with straightforward victories to march into the quarter-finals of the event. Nanao, who was the first to take to the ring, locked horns with...
08:48 PM, Nov 01, 2012
New Delhi: Bharti Enterprises has rejected allegations that it had violated rules in the investment by Walmart Stores Inc in its subsidiary. "(There is) no violation. It is as per the law of the land," Bharti Enterprises Vice-Chairman and Managing Director Rajan Bharti Mittal said. The Rs 455.8 crore investment by Walmart in Cedar Support Services Ltd, a subsidiary of Bharti Ventures, had come under attack from CPI Rajya Sabha...
12:27 PM, Oct 30, 2012
Islamabad: Cellular services were on Saturday cut for four hours in several Pakistani cities as part of the security measure for Eid. The services were suspended from 6 am to 10 am in the light of information from intelligence agencies and provincial governments over "threats to national security" on the first day of Eid. The suspension was not countrywide but was partial and in cities and pockets considered sensitive. On...
07:52 PM, Oct 27, 2012
The state selectors today picked a 15-member squad for their first two matches against Services and Tripura. ...
04:55 PM, Oct 24, 2012
Mumbai: Country's largest software firm Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) on Friday reported a 49.2 per cent jump in consolidated net profit at Rs 3,434 crore for the quarter ended September 30, 2012. The company had posted a net profit of Rs 2,301 crore in the same quarter of the previous fiscal (2011-12). Revenues rose 34.3 per cent to Rs 15,621 crore in the second quarter of 2012-13 compared to Rs...
09:14 PM, Oct 19, 2012
New Delhi: Airtel, Vodafone, Videocon and Tata Teleservices are among the telecom biggies who applied on Friday to bid in the upcoming spectrum auction, but Reliance Industries and Russia's Sistema surprised by staying away. Billionaire Mukesh Ambani-run RIL, sitting on a cash-pile of Rs 79,159 crore, was widely anticipated to bid in the November auction of airwaves to complement its wireless broadband services with voice call facility. But RIL, like...
07:28 PM, Oct 19, 2012
New Delhi: Continuing its "spring cleaning" session, Google has announced to shut down some more services including AdSense for Feeds and Classic Plus. "It is really important to focus or we end up doing too much with too little impact. So today we're winding down a bunch more features"bringing the total to nearly 60 since we started our spring clean last fall," said Yossi Matias, Senior Engineering Director, Google, in...
01:45 PM, Sep 29, 2012
San Francisco: Google has snapped up the digital photo editing service Snapseed as part of its effort to compete against Facebook's online social network. Snapseed is the centrepiece of Google's acquisition of Nik Software, which developed the service's photo-editing technology. The deal announced Monday gives Google a popular service that competes against Facebook's Instagram, whose tools are widely used to display, touch up and share photos taken on smartphones and...
10:52 AM, Sep 18, 2012
Kolkata: The grandfather of one-year-old Indrashish Saha - who has been taken into custody by the child welfare services in New Jersey - on Sunday met President Pranab Mukherjee who has assured all help in the matter. "The president is aware about the case and he has assured me that he will take up the matter with ministers concerned, including the prime minister (Manmohan Singh). He has assured me all...
10:15 AM, Sep 17, 2012
