Bangalore: All websites, including social media sites, would have to operate within the India laws and be responsible for hosting any content, Minister of State for Communications & IT Sachin Pilot said on Monday. "Be it a social media website or any other site on internet, they all have to operate within the laws of the country and they should be accountable and responsible for what they put up on...
01:10 AM, Feb 07, 2012
New Delhi: A Delhi court will be hearing a civil suit against 22 social networking websites on Monday. The websites were asked to remove all objectionable content and file a reply stating the measures taken to screen uploaded content. A criminal suit is also being heard in the Patiala house court on Monday, which had summoned representatives of websites including that of Google and Facebook. The counsels for the web...
06:46 AM, Feb 06, 2012
Salt Lake City: Saboteurs stole passwords and sensitive information on tipsters while hacking into the websites of several law enforcement agencies worldwide in attacks attributed to the collective known as Anonymous. Breaches were reported this week in Boston, Syracuse, New York, Salt Lake City and Greece. Hackers gained access to the Salt Lake City Police Department website that gathers citizen complaints about drug and other crimes, including phone numbers, addresses...
10:25 AM, Feb 04, 2012
New Delhi: The Delhi High Court on Friday sought response from the city police on a plea of Yahoo India Pvt Ltd challenging the summons issued to it by a magistrate for allegedly hosting objectionable content. "Notice be issued for February 10," Justice Suresh Kait said while admitting the petition of Yahoo India for hearing. The court also allowed Yahoo India's plea that its case be heard separately. Senior advocate...
01:20 PM, Jan 20, 2012
New Delhi: Booking rail tickets has now become more easy. Indian Railways Catering and Tourism Corporation(IRCTC) has come up with a new way that lets passengers book tickets through mobile phones anywhere, anytime. Passengers, who wish to book rail tickets, can go to the mobile website of the Indian Railways - https://www.irctc.co.in/mobile. The IRCTC mobile website is said to be convenient and easy to use, and can be accessed from...
12:52 PM, Jan 03, 2012
New Delhi: In a major blow to 21 social networking websites including Facebook, Microsoft, Google, Yahoo and YouTube, a Delhi court on Saturday asked them to remove derogatory content by February 6, 2012. All the 21 defendants have to submit an order of compliance to the court that they have received the court order and have to remove the derogatory content from their respective websites as directed by the court....
11:42 AM, Dec 24, 2011
New Delhi: In yet another blow to 21 social networking sites including Facebook, Microsoft, Google, Yahoo and YouTube, a Delhi court on Friday issued summons to them for facing trial for allegedly webcasting objectionable contents. Metropolitan Magistrate Sudesh Kumar took cognizance on a private criminal complaint and directed the Centre for taking "immediate appropriate steps" and also file a report in the court by January 13. The court's order came...
07:17 AM, Dec 24, 2011
New Delhi: In yet another blow to 21 social networking sites including Facebook, Microsoft, Google, Yahoo and YouTube, a Delhi court on Friday issued summons to them for facing trial for allegedly webcasting objectionable contents. Metropolitan Magistrate Sudesh Kumar took cognizance on a private criminal complaint and directed the Centre for taking "immediate appropriate steps" and also file a report in the court by January 13. The court's order came...
07:30 PM, Dec 23, 2011
Vatican City: The Vatican said on Wednesday an unknown buyer had snapped up the internet address vatican.xxx, a domain combining its name with an extension reserved for pornographic content. "This domain is not available because it has been acquired by someone else, but not the Vatican," Vatican spokesman Father Federico Lombardi said on Vatican radio. It was not clear from his statement if the Vatican had tried to acquire the...
05:19 PM, Dec 22, 2011
New Delhi: Union Telecom Minister Kapil Sibal met officials of Internet giants like Google and Facebook in Delhi on Thursday to formulate content guidelines for social networking sites. Minister of State for Communication and IT Sachin Pilot as well as Department of Telecom Secretary K Chandrashekhar were also present at the meeting. The private players have objected to the government's censorship of web content. They have suggested that instead of...
01:56 PM, Dec 15, 2011
New Delhi: YouTube has launched a new service 'YouTube for schools', which will have no access to videos other than those related to education. YouTube can be a very engaging education tool. There is just one small problem in giving kids YouTube access! The children might indulge in watching content which don't suit their age. To avoid any kind of distraction for kids YouTube has now launched 'YouTube for schools'....
08:02 AM, Dec 15, 2011
New Delhi: Information Technology and Communication Minister Kapil Sibal, speaking to Karan Thapar on Devil's Advocate, clarified that the government did not want to pre-screen any of the content on various Internet platforms. He said that the government had asked Internet platforms to form a set of guidelines according to their standards to protect the sentiments of people in the country. Sibal said that he only asked them to remove...
08:55 AM, Dec 10, 2011
New Delhi: Union Telecom Minister Kapil Sibal on Friday reiterated that the move to monitor the Internet has been taken to keep out content that are vulgar, demeaning and insulting. Speaking to Karan Thapar on Devil's Advocate, Sibal argued that such content could lead to riots and so were unacceptable. "The content on Internet was vulgar, demeaning and insulting. It could lead to riots. The contents hurt the religious sentiments....
01:11 PM, Dec 09, 2011
New Delhi: A few months back, the Pakistan Cyber Army hacked the Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) website. During the raid, they had gained access to over 10,000 users' information, which included names, e-mail addresses, phone numbers and location details and now, the website has got hacked again. A group by the name of Team_H4tr!ck has hacked the website and has ironically claimed that user files and information is safe...
10:43 AM, Dec 05, 2011
Vadodara: The city's Maharaja Sayajirao (MS) University has launched a website to enable senior citizens find jobs, engage in voluntary work and even find live-in partners. The project is the brainchild of Department of Extension and Communication of Faculty of Family and Community Sciences. Ever since the website's launch on December 2, it has been receiving good response from various parts of the country including Chennai, Hyderabad and Ahmedabad, and...
12:19 PM, Dec 04, 2011
Washington: Some 150 websites allegedly selling counterfeit goods including shoes, purses, sunglasses and sports jerseys have been seized, authorities said on Monday, coinciding with the Cyber Monday holiday shopping day. US authorities in the past few days slapped notices on the seized websites, including www.pumaoutlets.net, www.myjerseyshop.com, www.uggbootsclearanceoutletstores.com, in a bid to thwart sales of the counterfeit goods. However, authorities say they face difficulties prosecuting the sellers of the fake goods...
10:10 AM, Nov 29, 2011
New Delhi: Corporate espionage has been made easy by social networking websites as a well-devised strategy can result in the leak of valuable business secrets by employees and ex-employees, according to a study by Cyberoam, the security vertical of IT company Elitecore Technology. "You just need to get into the social network of the company, worse still, you just need to be an Internet search expert to get information that...
04:04 PM, Nov 21, 2011
New Delhi: A website promising to offer clear and non-judgemental information to the young on safe sex, homosexuality and other sex-related issues was launched on Friday. The site has two versions - lovematters.info in English and lovematters.in in Hindi - and was launched by Dutch international public broadcaster Radio Netherlands Worldwide. Apart from the website, people can access the information on their mobiles too. "Before coming to India, we conducted...
02:40 PM, Nov 19, 2011
London: The BBC will soon introduce a new radio website, preliminarily named 'Audiopedia', that would contain the broadcaster's almost entire archives of radio programmes since the 1940s. The service will be launched "within the next 12 months", Tim Davie, director of BBC Audio and Music, was quoted as saying by the Telegraph. As well as searching and listening to the archival material, 'Audiopedia' users will be able to share programmes...
09:38 AM, Nov 04, 2011
New Delhi: Google India on Wednesday announced the launch of a countrywide initiative to help small and medium businesses (SMBs) in India to go online with a free website. The Google-led 'India Get Your Business Online' initiative offers a free .in domain name and hosting for the first year along with free custom email addresses and 365-day support. Google's aim is to break down barriers that stop small businesses from...
12:34 PM, Nov 02, 2011
