London: Civil servants in Britain have been told to use social networking website Facebook at work to find out what the public is thinking. Bob Kerslake, head of the civil service, has written to departmental chiefs ordering them to make sure staff interact with the public on social networking websites, the Daily Mail reported Saturday. But officials say the move will simply encourage civil servants to spend time idly, contacting...
11:31 AM, Jul 08, 2012
Beijing: Bloomberg's news websites remained blocked in China five days after it issued a story about the finances of the extended family of the country's vice president, highlighting how Beijing is trying to shape public opinion ahead of a leadership transition. Bloomberg said it believes its English-language website and its Business Week site were blocked on Friday by Chinese authorities after it published details about the multi-million dollar fortunes of...
02:37 PM, Jul 04, 2012
Beijing: China blocked access to Bloomberg's website on the mainland after the business and financial news agency published a report Friday detailing the multimillion-dollar assets of relatives of the man set to become the country's next president. The report says that the extended family of Vice President Xi Jinping holds interests that include investments in companies with total assets of $376 million, an 18 percent indirect stake in a rare-earths...
09:20 PM, Jun 29, 2012
Beijing: China has shut down 89 websites for conducting "fraudulent activities" in the name of government organisations and charity groups, the government said Tuesday. The State Internet Information Office said many of the websites claimed to serve anti-corruption and law enforcement agencies, Xinhua reported. The website operators would fabricate negative news stories and threaten to post them online if the organisations or individuals targeted did not pay "hush money", it...
10:19 AM, Jun 20, 2012
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05:03 PM, Jun 16, 2012
New Delhi: Indian companies did not display much interest in submitting proposals for new Internet address suffixes. Of the 1930 applications that the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) announced for new domain name suffixes only 21 have been applied for by Indian companies. There are also three gTLDs in Hindi, but they have not been registered by Indian companies. The . (.com in Hindi) and . (.net...
07:39 PM, Jun 13, 2012
New Delhi: Of the 1930 applications that the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) received for new domain name suffixes only 21 have been applied for by Indian companies. The new gTLD (generic top-level domains) program is one the most substantive changes to the Domain Name System (DNS) in the Internet's history. There are also three gTLDs in Hindi, but they have not been registered by Indian companies....
06:43 PM, Jun 13, 2012
The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has received a total of 1930 applications, after refunds, for new domain name suffixes. The new gTLD program is one the most substantive changes to the Domain Name System (DNS) in the Internet's history. Here's the complete list of new domain name suffixes. ...
06:12 PM, Jun 13, 2012
ICANN is revealing which companies, organisations, start-ups, geographical regions and others have applied for gTLDs and which domain names they are seeking at a news conference in London.The application window for new generic Top-Level Domain (gTLD) names closed on 30 May after receiving more than 1,900 applications.The new gTLD program is one the most substantive changes to the Domain Name System (DNS) in the Internet's history.Watch the ICANN Reveal Day...
05:17 PM, Jun 13, 2012
New Delhi: The objectionable content case against Facebook, Google and 17 other social networking sites comes up at a Delhi court on Friday. The Department of Telecommunication is expected to submit an Action Taken Report. In the previous hearing the judge had rapped the petitioner for not listing the company names of the offending websites properly. Vinay Rai had filed a criminal complaint against 21 websites alleging that the posts...
07:41 AM, Jun 08, 2012
New Delhi: Websites of all government organisations will move to the new Internet Protocol (IP), IPv6, by the year-end, the communications and information technology ministry said Wednesday. "A direction has been issued to all the government organisations to migrate their websites to IPv6 by December 2012," the ministry said in a statement. "As IPv6 is not backward compatible with IPv4, the transition to IPv6 is likely to be a complex,...
10:27 AM, Jun 07, 2012
Chennai: DMK Treasurer MK Stalin on Saturday launched a website brought out to wish party chief M Karunanidhi on the occasion of his 89th birthday on Sunday. An initiative of DMK's Student Wing, www.wishthalaivar.com was launched by Stalin here, who also registered the first greetings for his father, Student Wing secretary Ela Pugazhenthi said in a statement. Karunanidhi turns 89 on Sunday and will be meeting his party supporters at...
01:23 PM, Jun 02, 2012
Los Angeles: Facebook's website suffered sporadic outages on Thursday (Friday in some time zones), anywhere from half an hour to two hours according to various blogs, tweets and affected users, but the company said the problem has been fixed. "Earlier today, some users briefly experienced issues loading the site. The issues have since been resolved and everyone should now have access to Facebook," company spokesman Michael Kirkland told Reuters. The...
02:43 PM, Jun 01, 2012
New Delhi: A Delhi court on Wednesday dismissed a plea by Facebook India to drop its name from a civil suit filed against certain websites for hosting "objectionable content". The internet company argued that its India office merely provided technical support to the parent company, based in US, and did not host any content. The court, however, said that prima facie there was enough evidence to implicate Facebook in the...
05:05 PM, May 30, 2012
New Delhi: Computer security analysts have issued an alert for Internet users and operators against hackers attempting to target websites of "reputed" government and private organisations. Cyber security agencies have also asked Internet users to deploy adequate firewalls and security measures to combat these attacks originating through Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS). "It is observed that some hacker groups are launching distributed denial of service attacks on websites of government...
10:19 AM, May 27, 2012
Chennai: A software engineer couple in Chennai have been troubleshooting all 'trash' problems. Chennai grapples with over 3,200 tonnes of solid waste everyday and much of it is recyclable. This struck two young software engineers, Sujatha and Jegan, the couple who started Kuppathotti.com in November, 2011. Kuppathotti, when translated in Tamil means a 'trash can'. This eco-friendly initiative also helps some souls to make a quick buck. The process is...
10:20 AM, May 23, 2012
Detroit/New York: Facebook may only have itself to blame for why General Motors rained on its IPO parade this week. GM announced the decision to drop Facebook paid ads on Tuesday in what was the first highly visible crack in Facebook's strategy and illustrated doubts about its perceived advantage over traditional media. GM's decision followed Facebook officials' failure to convince top marketing executives at the US automaker of the benefits...
02:06 PM, May 18, 2012
New Delhi: A number of Internet service providers had blocked access to popular video sharing websites such as Vimeo and DailyMotion as well as major torrent search services including The Piratebay and isoHunt apparantly following a court order obtained by Copyright Labs, a Chennai-based online anti piracy service provider. According to Copyright Labs, ISPs were asked to block specific websites but in a repeat of earlier instances they ended up...
07:08 PM, May 17, 2012
New Delhi: Hackers Anonymous on Thursday hacked the Supreme Court of India (supremecourtofindia.nic.in) and the All India Congress (aicc.org.in) websites. According to a report on thednetworks.com, Anonymous cited internet censorship as the reason for hacking the two Indian websites. This comes after torrent sites like The Pirate Bay and Vimeo have been blocked by most of the Indian Internet Service Providers (ISP) on government request. ISPs like BSNL, MTNL, Airtel...
06:46 PM, May 17, 2012
Bangalore: Pinterest, the increasingly popular online bulletin board, raised $100 million in a financing round that values the US start-up at $1.5 billion, the Wall Street Journal said, citing people familiar with the matter. The funding is led by Japanese e-commerce site Rakuten, with Pinterest's existing venture-capital investors such as Andreessen Horowitz, FirstMark Capital and Bessemer Venture Partners also participating, the report said. Pinterest could not immediately be reached by...
01:09 PM, May 17, 2012
