New Delhi: Competition watchdog CCI has asked its investigation arm to probe the alleged discriminatory practices by global search engine Google relating to its AdWords, sources said. The investigation, according to sources, was ordered after the Competition Commission of India (CCI) found "prima facie evidence" that Google has abused its dominant market position by being discriminatory in allotting keywords to matrimonial site Bharatmatrimony.com. "We have asked the Director General (Investigations)...
10:59 AM, May 07, 2012
It is sometimes sad to know that readers (most of them) only remember Ismat Chughtai for 'Lihaaf' or 'The Quilt'. She has written a lot more and the 'more' is even more interesting than 'Lihaaf'. I remember the first time I was introduced to her works. I had turned twenty-three and my friend had taken me to watch a play, 'Manto Ismat Hazir Hain' produced by Motley, - which featured...
01:45 PM, Apr 18, 2012
Seattle: Two US senators are asking Attorney General Eric Holder to investigate whether employers asking for Facebook passwords during job interviews are violating federal law, their offices announced Sunday. Troubled by reports of the practice, Democratic Sens. Chuck Schumer of New York and Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut said they are calling on the Department of Justice and the US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission to launch investigations. The senators are sending...
07:25 PM, Mar 25, 2012
New York: Nathan Acosta is feeling a little overwhelmed. The 24-year-old from Raleigh, North Carolina, who works for a financial services firm, is trying his best to keep up with all the passwords and security questions he has to juggle, just to log onto his personal accounts. But sometimes it feels like a losing battle. It's a battle millions of consumers can identify with. For a while it was just...
01:14 PM, Mar 09, 2012
Islamabad: If Pakistan's telecom regulator has its way, millions of mobile phone users may be unable to send text messages with "offensive" and "obscene" words like crap, damn, hobo, flatulence, gay, lesbian and slime from Monday. These words are part of a list of nearly 1,700 words and terms that the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) has deemed as offensive, and wants mobile phone operators to filter from SMS text messages....
02:34 PM, Nov 20, 2011
San Francisco: Google Inc is introducing a credit card for its advertising customers, offering its clients a credit line to try and drum up business as competition in the online ad market heats up. Google is offering the card to select US clients with what it calls a competitive interest rate, an ample credit line and no annual fee. The catch: it can only be used to buy search advertising...
07:43 AM, Jul 21, 2011
New Delhi: The Lokpal draft bill is reduced to a war of press conferences. Even as Anna Hazare said he will go on fast from Aug 16, the government said it won't be threatened, promising a strong draft bill by the end of the month. A day after the Lokpal committee met and ended bitterly divided between the government and civil society representatives, it was the government's turn to hit...
07:13 AM, Jun 17, 2011
London: Common words from Indian cuisines such as keema, aloo and gobi, and slangs like thang, innit and grrl have made their way to the latest Scrabble lexicon. The Collins Official Scrabble Words also now includes words from the Internet such as Wiki and Myspace among nearly 3,000 new additions to those allowed in the popular word game played across the world. Others permitted include words for various kinds of...
02:30 PM, May 09, 2011
New Delhi: The Oxford English Dictionary on Thursday added abbreviations popularly used in electronic communication; including OMG and LOL, as part of the official lexicon. These words or slang will join other entries of this sort such as IMHO (in my humble opinion), TMI (too much information) and BFF (best friends forever) among others. "The initialisms are quicker to type than the full forms, and in the case of text...
11:35 AM, Mar 25, 2011
London: A slew of new words, including "bloggable", "scareware" and "onliner", have made it to Oxford Dictionaries for the first time, thanks to the worldwide web's increasing influence on the English language. The new entries include the words "scareware", which means malicious computer programmes, "trackpad" (touchpad) and "buttload" (a large amount). Other new words or phrases in the past nine months include "bloggable", defined as a suitable topic for blogging,...
12:40 PM, Feb 24, 2011
Washington: Babies, even those too young to talk, can well understand many of the words that adults say - and their brains also process them in a grown-up way, a new study has claimed. A team at the University of California has shown that babies just over a year old process words they hear with the same brain structures as adults, and in the same amount of time, combining the...
12:41 PM, Jan 10, 2011
Detroit: It's official: Viral went viral, and now it's been virtually vaporized. Michigan's Lake Superior State University features the term linked to popular online video clips in its annual List of Words to Be Banished from the Queen's English for Mis-use, Over-use and General Uselessness. The 2011 list, compiled by the university from nominations submitted from across North America throughout the year, was released Friday. Nominators did more than vanquish...
12:19 PM, Dec 31, 2010
San Francisco: The fallout from a hacking attack on Gawker Media Inc. a week ago underscores a basic security risk of living more of our lives online: Using the same username and password for multiple sites is convenient, but costly. After the attack on the publisher of such blogs as Gawker, Gizmodo and Jezebel exposed account information on as many as 1.4 million people, several unrelated companies had to freeze...
11:12 AM, Dec 20, 2010
London: The English language is enjoying unprecedented growth and has nearly doubled in size over the last century. Researchers at Harvard University and Google found that the language was expanding by 8,500 words a year in the new millennium and now stands at 1,022,000 words. The rate of increase over the years is shown by the fact that the language has grown by more than 70 per cent since 1950,...
07:07 PM, Dec 17, 2010
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