London: A drunken woman secretary, who hurled racist abuse at fellow Tube travellers in a tirade that was viewed by thousands of internet users across the world after being uploaded by a Sikh, was on Tuesday jailed for 21 weeks. Jacqueline Woodhouse, 42, launched an expletive-laden racist rant at passengers on the Central line in London. A seven-minute video of the incident that happened on January 23, was uploaded to...
06:22 PM, May 29, 2012
London: A video of a brave Saudi woman confronting members of the country's religious police after they accused her of breaking strict modesty rules with her freshly painted nails, has gone viral on the internet. The unidentified woman refuses their demands that she leave the mall where she was present and tells them that her nails are 'none of (their) business'. After she filmed the incident on her mobile phone...
09:28 PM, May 26, 2012
New Delhi: The preview copy of the director Quashik Mukherjee's acclaimed film 'Gandu' has been leaked on YouTube. The film is about an aspiring rapper Gandu who is frustrated with his life and poor Kolkata neighbourhood. He steals money from his mother and has a rickshaw puller friend called Ricksha. The two are the partners in everything. They are addicted to drugs which hampers there sense of deciding what is...
02:24 PM, May 22, 2012
New Delhi: A Delhi court on Monday reserved its order on the plea of Facebook India seeking removal of its name from the civil suit against various social networking sites for allegedly displaying objectionable content. Administrative Civil Judge Parveen Singh reserved his order for May 22 after Facebook India said that it is not responsible for the contents appearing on website, facebook.com. The court was hearing a petition moved by...
08:13 PM, May 14, 2012
Seoul: LG Electronics Inc, the world's No.2 TV maker, plans to launch Internet-enabled TV based on Google's platform in the United States in the week of May 21, as the South Korean firm seeks to gain a larger share of the emerging Internet TV market, a senior LG executive said on Monday. The move reflects an aggressive push by the duo to defend against a potential threat from Apple Inc,...
11:12 AM, May 07, 2012
New Delhi: A Delhi court hearing a civil case against various social networking sites for allegedly displaying objectionable content on Wednesday ordered that summons be served to US-based social networking site, Facebook through email. Meanwhile petitioner's counsel Santosh Pandey moved an application seeking the government should be brought as a plaintiff for proper adjudication of the case as it is related to national issues. Administrative Civil Judge Parveen Singh order...
01:27 AM, Apr 19, 2012
New Delhi: A Delhi court on Wednesday ordered for serving summons to US-based social networking site Facebook through e-mail to respond to a suit which seeks action against it for allegedly hosting objectionable contents. Administrative Civil Judge Parveen Singh ordered serving of summons to Facebook through e-mail within three days as the internet giant has made no representation to the court and several summons issued against it have gone unserved....
06:32 PM, Apr 18, 2012
Los Angeles: Google is adding 600 movies from Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer to the titles it has available for rent on YouTube and also Google Play, its digital content store for Android-powered mobile devices. MGM, whose film library includes classics like "Rocky" and "Rain Man," joins five other major studios offering movies for rent through Google: Viacom Inc.'s Paramount, Comcast Corp.'s Universal, Sony Corp.'s Sony Pictures, Time Warner Inc.'s Warner Bros. and The...
10:38 AM, Apr 17, 2012
New Delhi: Search engine Google has launched 'Account Activity' -- a new service that collates activities of users on all Google-owned sites including the popular 'Gmail' and 'YouTube' offerings. The service would provide information to the users on a monthly basis. "Sometimes it's helpful to step back and take stock of what you're doing online...If you sign up (for Account Activity), each month we'll send you a link to a...
11:22 PM, Mar 29, 2012
Washington: India's Sachin S Kukke is the Asia-Pacific region winner and one of the six global winners of the YouTube Space Lab 2012 contest for young people to design experiments that could be performed in outer space. The winners of the contest by YouTube and Lenovo, in cooperation with Space Adventures, NASA, ESA (European Space Agency), and JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) were announced at a ceremony at the Newseum...
10:53 AM, Mar 27, 2012
San Diego: A co-founder of the group behind a viral video about a brutal African warlord was detained by police and hospitalised after witnesses saw him running through streets in his underwear, screaming and banging his fists on the pavement. Jason Russell of Invisible Children was hospitalized for exhaustion less than two weeks after the release of the 30-minute video he narrated about warlord Joseph Kony, said Ben Keesey, the...
09:35 AM, Mar 17, 2012
New Delhi: The delicious irony in the Prime Minister's YouTube channel that had audio trouble with its debut video was hard to miss. Twitter users targeted the gaffe with savage fury, making it the butt of jokes centred on Manmohan Singh's usual reserve. Compared to the flamboyant Nicolas Sarkozy or the charismatic Barack Obama, the Indian PMO's Twitter account is fairly dull. Notwithstanding its virtuous intention, @PMOIndia has followed only...
12:38 AM, Mar 13, 2012
New York: The director of a video sensation that calls for the arrest of Joseph Kony, the fugitive rebel leader of a Ugandan militia group, agreed on Friday with skeptics who have called the film oversimplified, saying it was deliberately made that way. The 30-minute YouTube film called 'Kony 2012', which by Friday had been viewed on YouTube more than 58 million times, aims to wake up the world to...
01:15 PM, Mar 12, 2012
New Delhi: After foraying on microblogging site twitter, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's Office has made its debut on popular video-sharing website Youtube. The PMO said it will now be communicating with the people "more" through videos. "PMOIndia is now also on Youtube at pmofficeindia. We will be communicating more with you through videos," PMO sources said. The PMO has started foraying into the new media after TV journalist Pankaj Pachauri...
06:11 PM, Mar 11, 2012
New Delhi: A video calling for the arrest of Joseph Kony, the fugitive leader of the Lord's Resistance Army militia group in Uganda, swept across the Internet this week, attracting a wave of support on Twitter and Facebook along with a skeptical backlash against a little-known team of filmmakers based in San Diego. The 30-minute YouTube video was the centrepiece of a campaign that spread on Twitter beginning on Tuesday...
05:45 PM, Mar 09, 2012
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