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10:19 PM, Aug 20, 2012
New Delhi: In the wake of morphed images triggering an unprecedented exodus of Northeast Indians from major cities in other states, the government has blocked 254 websites, including 98 on Monday, for uploading doctored videos and pictures. The Monday crackdown on websites follows a similar blocking of around 80 internet pages and user accounts spreading hate messages on a slew of social networking sites, including Facebook, Google and Twitter. The...
07:50 PM, Aug 20, 2012
New Delhi: The government is stepping in more actively to monitor social media content after the continued departure of north-eastern students from cities like Bangalore, Hyderabad and Pune. According to sources, the Home Ministry has asked the Intelligence Bureau and state police to monitor websites and social media. Also, the Centre has asked social media websites to monitor their content. Sources further said that the government warned the websites that...
07:46 PM, Aug 17, 2012
New Delhi: Anonymous India hackers targeted the official website Samajwadi Party in response to the party's Member of Parliament Ram Gopal Yadav demanding a ban on social networking websites. Yadav was participating in a debate in the Rajya Sabha on rumours triggering panic over ethnic violence in Assam that is leading to a mass exodus of people from the North East from Bangalore. "TANGO DOWN: http://www.samajwadiparty.in ..." @opindia_revenge tweeted. Access...
05:33 PM, Aug 17, 2012
New Delhi: An inactive website of the Southern Railways www.southernrailway.gov.in has been defaced apparently by Pakistani hackers. The hacker group that calls itself 'Pak Cyber Pyrates' replaced the home page of the website with a page with content that denounces India's role in Kashmir. The official Southern Railways website moved to a new domain www.sr.indianrailways.gov.in back in 2010. Inactive websites are a soft target for hackers as they are not...
10:15 AM, Aug 07, 2012
New Delhi: The Government of India launched an anti-ragging website helping students of universities, colleges and professional institutes lodge online complaints against ragging or harassment and seek faster response. One can also get the anti-ragging affidavits through email registering on the website and keep a track about the progress of their complaints logging on www.antiragging.in, launched by HRD Minister Kapil Sibal. The UGC-managed portal has been developed in active collaboration...
01:22 PM, Jul 27, 2012
Jakarta: Indonesia's communications and information ministry has shut down more than one million pornographic websites ahead of the Islamic holy month of Ramadan. Minister Tifatul Sembiring said Wednesday that his office would target more sites in the upcoming month. The closed websites were all run from abroad, he said. "We will block more porn sites during Ramadan, though that doesn't mean that we will allow such sites to operate during...
04:09 PM, Jul 18, 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
New York: Shortly before the Harry Potter saga came to an end on movie screens a year ago, we were teased with more adventures about the young wizard through a website called Pottermore. One million fans who were able to solve riddles and find a Magical Quill have had a chance to try out Pottermore for nearly a year. The rest of us - the magic-free Muggles - had to...
03:17 PM, Jul 13, 2012
San Francisco: New York tech incubator Betaworks acquired the website Digg on Thursday in a deal that included the remaining brand assets, a humble close to what was once a celebrated online property that heralded the social media era. Launched in 2004 by then 27-year old Kevin Rose, Digg rose to prominence as an aggregator of online content, becoming at one point one of the more highly-trafficked stops on the...
06:24 AM, Jul 13, 2012
San Francisco: Zynga Inc CEO Mark Pincus said he remains wary of investing as heavily in mobile games as he has in proven Web-based titles like FarmVille despite an industrywide push toward catering to mobile devices. Game industry observers in recent months have stressed that developers must adapt as Internet users worldwide shift toward spending time on smartphones and tablets rather than desktop computers. Concerns that Zynga continues to rely...
02:05 PM, Jul 11, 2012
London: Can't think of a day without Facebook or Twitter? Beware, as these popular social networking sites feed anxiety and can make you feel insecure, a new study has found. A survey of hundreds of social network site users found that more than half of them admitted that the sites have changed their behaviour, and half of them said their lives had been altered for the worse. Most commonly, those...
04:26 AM, Jul 09, 2012
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 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
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
