Internet
Facebook hack lands student in prison
A British student, who hacked into Facebook’s computers has been sentenced to eight months in prison. A prosecutor said 26-year-old Glenn Mangham hacked into the social networking company’s...
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Advocate of the 'Free Web'
Author Ankit Fadia has come up with a book on how to unblock every system of control on the Web. It's for people who are non-geeky and want to experience the thrill of knowing something that sounds taboo
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They live on in cyberspace
Memini, a new website is a memorial to women who lost their lives to ‘honour' violence.
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No question of censoring social media: Sachin Pilot
Social media sites have to operate within the framework of the law, said Sachin Pilot, Union Minister of State for Telecommunications and Information Technology, on Monday. Speaking to the media o...
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Facebook turns eight
The social networking giant that has changed our lives over the years is most likely to have one billion users by August this year.
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February 15, 2012
Weekly Window: Hide and seek
National-award winning actor and YouTube sensation Dhanush’s anthem for Sachin Tendulkar played a bit of hide-and-seek on the video-sharing network last week. The song with a tune very similar to...
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NEW DELHI,
February 15, 2012
Centre to submit papers on sanction for Google, Facebook prosecution
The Delhi High Court on Tuesday directed the Department of Information Technology to submit the papers on sanction for prosecution of Google India and social networking site Facebook for allegedly...
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February 12, 2012
Going the smart way
If there is something that has made a major change in our lives compared to a decade ago, it is the mobile phone. Now, it is the era of smartphones.Smartphones that are available now are so...
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BANGALORE,
February 12, 2012
Changing the course of networking with Ethernet Fabric
When we speak of the world around us today being all ‘connected', most of us are not thinking beyond our gadgets, our software and applications, telephones and the Internet.But behind these...
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New Delhi,
February 10, 2012
Google issued foreign exchange violation notice
The Enforcement Directorate has issued a foreign exchange violation notice to Internet giant Google for alleged irregularities in transfer of funds to its foreign entities.
The ED has ask...
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NEW DELHI,
February 8, 2012
Google removes ‘objectionable' content
Following a Delhi court order, Google on Tuesday said it has removed from its Indian sites content that were found ‘objectionable' by the court. “We only removed specific content that was i...
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LOS ANGELES,
February 5, 2012
Now, web helps voters decide
There was a time when elections meant only sloganeering and long speeches. It is all that now, but just add that dash of technology, and it can be much more. Turning on your phone or computer will...
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Bangalore,
February 5, 2012
A new domain name, but concerns remain the same
It seemed like an innocuous enough change — from this week, all visitors from India to blogs hosted on Google's Blogger saw the URLs read [blogname].blogspot.in rather than the .blogspot.com they...
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TIRUCHI,
February 3, 2012
Control of internet will stifle innovation, says expert
No single country can dictate laws on the internet as control stifles innovation. The internet is a multi-stakeholder platform and not for any single government to control, Olivier Leblond, chair,...
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Washington,
January 31, 2012
Leading email providers join hands to fight spam, phishing
World’s leading email providers including Google, Yahoo, AOL, Facebook and Microsoft have announced to join hands to collectively fight the increasing menace of email and phishing attacks.F...
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Google's new privacy move is a ‘forced’ merger to many
Twitter ‘collaborating with censors'
Twitter to censor tweets in individual countries
Weekly Window: Apple and education
Google to merge user data across more services
Untangle yourself
Safeguard passwords from phishing attacks
The Internet unplugged
February 15, 2012
Dangerous links
A teenager in Delhi, a regular on social networking sites, recently updated her status message to ‘Parents away, alone at home.' In the next 20 minutes, two men entered her house and she was raped...
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Mumbai,
February 14, 2012
No plan to censor social media: Sibal
Union Telecom and Information Technology Minister Kapil Sibal today ruled out any plan to censor social media, but said the companies need to obey the law of the land.The comments came in t...
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February 12, 2012
TECH NEWS
400 techies attend 11th Barcamp
Barcamp Bangalore, the ‘unconference' for geeks and technology enthusiasts, was held at the SAP Labs, Whitefield, here on Saturday. Over 4...
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NEW DELHI,
February 10, 2012
HC refuses to stay criminal proceedings against Yahoo
The Delhi High Court on Friday refused to stay a lower court order summoning Yahoo India as an accused on a private complaint that charged it with hosting objectionable contents.Justice Sur...
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February 8, 2012
Hacking into the future
He is an MTV Youth Icon, a Global Shaper according to the World Economic Forum and has been chosen as a Global Ambassador for Cyber Security by the Indian Government. Another title he has held for...
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February 6, 2012
Don't shoot the messenger
Ever since the Government talked about social network sites being subjected to censorship, there have been strong reactions from netizens and defenders of free speech.
The popularity of s...
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February 5, 2012
'Hacking is not negative'
“Free speech is the cornerstone of any democratic edifice,” says 28-year-old Ankit Fadia, an independent computer security consultant and author of 14 books on computer security and ethical hackin...
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New York/New Delhi,
February 3, 2012
Google unveils plans for country-specific content filtering
Less than a week after a similar move by micro-blogging site Twitter, Google has unveiled plans to make content on its blogger platform selectively available, depending on the local rules of each...
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WASHINGTON,
February 2, 2012
Facebook files for historic IPO
Social networking giant Facebook has filed an initial public offering, which could raise as much as $10 billion and could value the company between $75 billion and $100 billion.
However,...
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CHENNAI,
January 30, 2012
The web, at your service, at your doorstep
It is always easy when you know where to eat and what to eat. But if not, won't it be ideal to have a friend who tells you where exactly to go and, a waiter who guides you through the menu to find...
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Will watch how Twitter implements censorship policy: U.S.
A digital interface
Cannot censor the Web: Google to India
Fair or foul?
One hour of video uploaded on YouTube every second: Google
Google+ user base crosses 90 million mark
India: The Impact of Internet
Slideshow
Cultivating Apple’s countercultural sensibility and a minimalist design ethic, Steve Jobs rolled out one sensational product after another, even in the face of the late-2000s recession and his own failing health. Photos: AP.
