The Pakistan government will decide in a couple of days whether to lift a ban on YouTube that was imposed for hosting clips from a controversial anti-Islam film, a federal minister said on Wednesday. Defence Minister Naveed Qamar told the National Assembly or lower house of parliament that the government is "seriously considering to unblock the video-sharing website". ...
08:43 PM, Mar 06, 2013
In a new crackdown on online pornography, China has shut down 225 websites and other content sharing and social media sites, the government said. ...
10:52 AM, Feb 28, 2013
The court order had asked Director General of Indian Computer Emergency Response Team to block 78 web pages including that of University Grant Commission (UGC). ...
06:51 AM, Feb 28, 2013
Google is the most trusted online brand in the country, with Facebook coming in at number two, says a study by Brand Trust Advisory. Yahoo has emerged as the second-most trusted search engine after Google, says the report. ...
11:00 PM, Feb 25, 2013
A threat of Hyderabad-like blasts to avenge the hanging of Afzal Guru was posted on the website of Bihar Tourism department after it was attacked by hackers Saturday morning. Bihar Tourism minister Sunil Kumar Pintu said the website www.bihartourism.gov.in remained hacked from morning till 2:30 pm. ...
06:18 PM, Feb 23, 2013
The new look Yahoo will roll out to US users over the next few days. ...
07:35 PM, Feb 20, 2013
The Department of Telecom, under a court order, recently ordered blocking of 78 URLs, 73 of which contained content apparently critical of the controversial IIPM. ...
08:35 PM, Feb 18, 2013
The Department of Telecom, under a court order, recently ordered blocking of 78 URLs, 73 of which contained content apparently critical of the controversial Indian Institute of Planning and Management (IIPM) and its head Arindam Chaudhuri, including a University Grants Commission notice on the unrecognised status of IIPM. The URLs blocked included many from mainstream news organisations such as Firstpost, Outlook, Times of India, Rediff, Indian Express and Economic Times,...
04:46 PM, Feb 18, 2013
The Indian Institute of Planning and Management is embroiled in yet another controversy as the government has directed Internet Service Providers to block over 73 URLs carrying defamatory articles about the private business school and its chairman Arindam Chaudhuri. These URLs include a University Grants Commission (UGC) notice on the unrecognised status of IIPM. ...
10:52 AM, Feb 16, 2013
The office of the President has taken off the 'mercy petition' section from its official website and it said matters relating to the subject for public information will henceforth be dealt by the Union Home Ministry. The website had a separate section giving details of the number of clemency petitions pending with President Pranab Mukherjee and those cleared by him after he assumed office in July, 2012. ...
08:17 PM, Feb 14, 2013
Leader of the Congress party on Wednesday lodged a complaint with the police that a morphed photograph of Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N Kiran Kumar Reddy has been uploaded on a social networking website. ...
10:57 PM, Feb 13, 2013
If you missed any of the Super Bowl ads your friends and co-workers are talking about, Hulu, CBS and YouTube are among the websites that let you watch them. ...
11:59 AM, Feb 05, 2013
Hackers sympathetic to the late computer prodigy Aaron Swartz claimed on Saturday to have infiltrated the website of the US Justice Department's Sentencing Commission, and said they planned to release government data. The Sentencing Commission site, www.ussc.gov , was shut down early Saturday. ...
09:23 AM, Jan 27, 2013
Under pressure to quicken its growth, the once-red hot question-and-answer startup Quora.com said it will launch a blogging platform to encourage more input from its users, who share everything from intensely personal experiences to deep technical knowledge on the site. ...
11:13 AM, Jan 24, 2013
Kim Dotcom, founder of outlawed file-sharing website Megaupload, said his new "cyberlocker" was not revenge on US authorities who planned a raid on his home, closed Megaupload and charged him with online piracy for which he faces jail if found guilty. ...
05:04 PM, Jan 19, 2013
IBNLive.com on Thursday was awarded the best news content website by the Internet and Mobile Association of India (IAMAI). The other news websites in the running for the title were BBC and Network18's Firstpost. ...
07:40 PM, Jan 17, 2013
Facebook has launched a new feature called Graph Search that allows users to search anything their Facebook friends have shared, including photos and posts. However, the feature is yet to be made public. ...
09:54 AM, Jan 16, 2013
Noida Cyber Cell has arrested two porn website operators for allegedly loading a couple's obscene video on the website. The operators were on Monday produced before the district court which granted six days police remand. ...
09:45 PM, Jan 14, 2013
More illicit affairs start on January 7 than any other day of the year, experts say. ...
11:57 AM, Jan 07, 2013
Haryana police on Friday began putting names and details of convicted rapists on a government website even as two youths were arrested in Jind district for allegedly recording and circulating the obscene MMS of a teenager. Haryana police have started a process to put names, addresses and crime details of at least 2,500 convicted rapists in the past about a decade on the website, a senior police official said here...
03:03 PM, Jan 04, 2013
