New York: The tantalising prospect of finding the next Facebook, Groupon or Twitter is driving the biggest rush of venture capital into the Internet start-up arena since dot-com mania first boomed and then fizzled more than a decade ago. More than $5 billion of venture capital investment flowed into young web companies globally in the first four months of the year, data from Thomson Reuters Deals Intelligence shows. Though small...
01:17 PM, May 09, 2011
New Delhi: "Uh oh, now I'm the guy who liveblogged the Osama raid without knowing it," tweeted 33-year-old Sohaib Athar. The IT consultant had unwittingly live tweeted the raid that resulted in the death of Osama bin Laden. Athar who posts on twitter as @ReallyVirtual, put up a post on Twitter early morning May 2 about a helicopter hovering above Abbottabad. He also remarked that it was "a rare event."...
02:57 PM, May 02, 2011
New York: Prince William and Kate Middleton may have had a traditional wedding, but the Internet traffic that accompanied the ceremony was something very new for the royal family. Millions followed the affair in live streams on their computers, all the while commenting on social media sites. Among the many outlets webcasting the event was the royal family itself, whose YouTube page offered live video and tweets from Clarence House,...
11:55 AM, Apr 30, 2011
Boston: Amazon.com Inc apologised to customers for an outage at its Web hosting business that caused some websites to crash, saying it would credit them for their inconvenience. Although Amazon.com is best known as one of the world's biggest shopping sites, it is also one of the largest provider of Web hosting services, an area where it competes with Google Inc, Microsoft Corp and several smaller companies. On April 21,...
10:48 AM, Apr 30, 2011
New Delhi: The number of Facebook users in India has crossed the 25-million base mark, the social networking site said Thursday. "Facebook currently has 25 million users in India," said David Fischer, vice president advertising and global operations, Facebook at an interactive advertising and digital marketing exhibition, Ad-tech here. Facebook has almost become the most popular for active Internet users in the recent past in India, leaving behind other social...
07:24 AM, Apr 29, 2011
Complete text of the controversial new rules notified under the Information Technology Act. [To be published in THE GAZETTE OF INDIA, EXTRAORDINARY, Part II, Section 3, Sub-section (i) of dated the 11th April 2011] Government of India MINISTRY OF COMMUNICATIONS AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY (Department of Information Technology) NOTIFICATION New Delhi, the ------------, 2011 G.S.R. (E) - In exercise of the powers conferred by clause (ca) of sub-section (2) of section...
09:21 AM, Apr 27, 2011
New Delhi: Websites can now add a new Facebook Send button to their pages, in addition to the existing Like and Share buttons. The popular Facebook Like button celebrated a year of its existence only a few days ago and has become almost ubiquitous on the World Wide Web. The simple-looking button with a thumbs-up icon lets users show their appreciation for online content and also lets them share it...
02:03 PM, Apr 26, 2011
New York: What happens when you cross the world's largest social network with one of the hottest business models in e-commerce? Facebook wants to find out. Facebook is launching a deals program Tuesday in five US cities, following on the popularity of Groupon and other services that offer deep discounts - for example: $50 worth of food at a local eatery for $25. By allowing small businesses to leverage the...
11:16 AM, Apr 26, 2011
New Delhi: The doodle in place of the usual Google logo on Tuesday is inspired by the paintings of the famous French-American ornithologist John James Audubon. The doodle celebrating Audubon's birthday has, like many other Google doodles, a pattern of the Google logo visible. In the latest doodle, the Google logo is made up of the branches of the trees the birds in the painting are perched. Audubon was born...
07:27 AM, Apr 26, 2011
Shanghai: China's Ministry of Culture will punish Baidu Inc for providing illegal music downloads, Xinhua, China's official news agency reported on Monday. The government will punish 14 websites that have provided illegal music downloads, including Baidu, China's top search engine. Xinhua reported that an official said the websites continued to provide that music despite repeated warnings not to. Details regarding the punishment were not released. Baidu could not be immediately...
03:59 PM, Apr 25, 2011
London: A new online tracking system will allow websites to pinpoint your location to within a few hundred metres, without your permission. Internet sites will be able to work out where users are within an average of 690 metres, using information about their internet connection. At the moment they can only track users' locations to within a radius of about 200 km, but the new technique will narrow this down...
03:20 PM, Apr 25, 2011
New Delhi: In only a year and the Facebook Like Button has become almost ubiquitous on the World Wide Web. The simple-looking button with a thumbs-up icon lets users show their appreciation for online content and also lets them share it with their friends on Facebook. The ease with which websites can integrate the Facebook Like Button has made it an overnight success. Over 50,000 websites included the button within...
12:25 PM, Apr 22, 2011
New York: Major websites including Foursquare and Reddit crashed or suffered slowdowns Thursday after technical problems rattled Amazon.com's widely used Web servers, frustrating millions of people who couldn't access their favorite sites. Though better known for selling books, DVDs and other consumer goods, Amazon also rents out space on huge computer servers that run many websites and other online services. The problems began at an Amazon data center near Dulles...
06:27 AM, Apr 22, 2011
London: Pornography-only suffix - .xxx - is now part of the Domain Name System (DNS) and the first addresses like porn.xxx, sex.xxx and xxx.xxx are being used to promote its sale, it was reported here. Daily Telegraph reported that following approval from ICANN, a US quango, the pornography-only suffix has been added to DNS, which have .com, .gov, .net and .uk, among others. The pornography-only suffix was proposed in 2000...
06:38 PM, Apr 19, 2011
Brussels: People surfing European websites will be able to turn off the cookies used to spy on their Internet habits under rules hammered out by the region's online advertisers, an industry body said on Thursday. The European web advertising industry's self-regulation pledge comes a month before a European Union directive takes effect, requiring websites to obtain a user's consent before installing a tracking cookie. "It will change significantly how the...
12:06 PM, Apr 15, 2011
Houston: Google's popular video sharing website YouTube will soon be overhauled and turned into a premium content competitor with organised channels and professionally produced video. YouTube is trying to position itself to better handle the age of Internet-connected televisions, a report said, citing people familiar with the matter. YouTube is reorganising its home page around "channels," or topics, such as sports and arts. The website is working to include about...
11:38 AM, Apr 07, 2011
New York: LinkedIn, the online social network for professionals and job seekers, now has 100 million members worldwide and more than half are from outside the United States. The company said on Tuesday it is now growing at a rate of roughly 1 million new members every week. The new total is about 10 million more than LinkedIn disclosed in a regulatory filing on March 11. Brazil and Mexico are...
11:27 AM, Mar 23, 2011
It's been five years since Jack Dorsey, co-founder of Twitter, sent out the very first tweet. In these five years Twitter has evolved from being a 140-character idea to a phenomenon. The who's who of the world are on Twitter and a billion tweets are being sent every week. Chances are you too are on Twitter, but the question is how well do you know the microblogging sensation and the...
04:19 PM, Mar 21, 2011
San Francisco: The internet now has its own official red-light district, where sex sites will be regulated against fraud, viruses and child porn. ICANN, the organisation that oversees the internet, gave final approval Friday to a proposal to create a new top-level domain name on the web with the suffix .xxx, which will host only sites that feature adult content. Porn sites will not be required to register their addresses...
09:49 AM, Mar 21, 2011
