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India Huge Growth Market for BitTorrent Sites
BitTorrent’s popularity is on the rise in India, and with a massive increase in broadband subscribers just around the corner, it is the number one growth market for BitTorrent sites. With a population of over 1.1 billion people and only 4.5 millio...
ISRO To Roll Out ‘Bhuvan’ To Counter Google Earth
After Chandrayaan-1 mission, Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) is all set to add another feather to its cap. On the lines of Google Earth, ISRO will soon launch an IRS (Indian Remote Sensing) image portal called “Bhuvan”, which will provid...
Microsoft launches live map search in India
New Delhi: Microsoft India today launched its map services to join the league of Google and Yahoo!.
Get free laptop from Reliance with a net connection for Rs 1500
Now you can get free laptop from Reliance Communication with a net connection for Rs 1500 every month only. And the good news does not end here. You will need to pay this amount only for two years and the laptop will be yours.
Telecom companies gearing up to launch WiMax technology
NEW DELHI: Telecommunication companies are gearing up to launch the WiMAX (Worldwide Interoperability for Microwave Access) technology in India in a big way. The potential of this technology that allows wireless transmission of data using a variet...
Skype Messages Being Monitored in China, Group Says
Tom-Skype, a joint venture in China between eBay's Skype unit and Tom Online, has been known to operate a text filter on text chats, but a new report says that the data is stored insecurely and the text messages and records containing personal dat...
Lawyer for Palin Hacker Releases Statement
A grand jury ended its session this morning without indicting University of Tennessee student David Kernell, who is suspected of hacking Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin's private e-mail account, an area newspaper is reporting.
Solar-powered Wi-Fi trailer connects remote sites
Bringing wireless network access to remote work sites like mines and railways is always a challenge so a team of Aussie engineers have thrown a Wi-Fi mesh access point on the back of a custom-built tailor which is powered by the sun.
Palin hacker's IP address linked to Tenn. student's apartment
The man who traced the IP address of the hacker who accessed Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin's e-mail account last week confirmed today that it belongs to an Illinois company that provides Internet service to the Knoxville, Tenn., apartment complex where ...
Proxy server trail leads FBI to Palin email hacker
Anchorage (Alaska) – FBI agents are using proxy server logs to track down the hacker who broke into Sarah Palin’s Yahoo email account. The hacker gained access to the Republican Vice Presidential candidate’s account by resetting the password. He...
Sergey Brin starts blog, tells of Parkinson's risk
Google co-founder Sergey Brin launched his personal blog on Thursday with some sobering news: he carries a particular genetic mutation that means he's much more likely than average to get Parkinson's disease.
Companies can learn from hacking of Palin's e-mail
SEATTLE — A precocious hacker cracks into Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin's private e-mail account, looking for dirt. In doing so, he opens a Pandora's box of tech security concerns for the presidential candidates — but perhaps ...
Yahoo testing livelier, more open home page
Yahoo has begun offering some users a more personalized home page that the company hopes will increase the usage and utility of a Web site that's widely used but elderly in Internet years.
TRAI plans to prevent WiFi abuse
NEW DELHI: With terrorists using unsecured wireless fidelity (WiFi) networks to shoot off emails every time they carry out bomb blasts, TRAI is examining a series of measures to have security processes in place to protect such networks.
Porn on a plane: Flight attendants want filters
Coffee, tea, or porn? "I don't think so," say American Airline flight attendants. Leaders of the Association of Professional Flight Attendants, which represents some 19,000 workers including American Airlines flight attendants, asked American Airl...
YouTube Bans Videos That Incite Violence
The video-sharing service YouTube is banning submissions that involve "inciting others to violence," following criticism from Sen. Joseph I. Lieberman (I-Conn.) that the site was too open to terrorist groups disseminating militant propaganda.
Facebook makeover nettles some devotees
SAN FRANCISCO, California (AFP) — Facebook's new look became mandatory Wednesday in a shift to what the popular social networking website says is a faster, streamlined and more spam-resistant format that has some devotees in a state of rebellion.
Google to Digitize Newspaper Archives
SAN FRANCISCO — Google has begun scanning microfilm from some newspapers’ historic archives to make them searchable online, first through Google News and eventually on the papers’ own Web sites, the company said Monday.
IE 8 Beta 2 not without its faults
One day after Microsoft released the second public beta for Internet Explorer 8, readers have contacted CNET News with warnings about its installation and sites and services that are incompatible. While such behavior is expected of beta software, ...
‘Forgot your password?’ may be weakest link
Almost everyone forgets a Web site password once in a while. When you do, you click on the familiar "Forgot your password?" link and, after entering your pet's name, identifying your high school mascot or answering some other seemingly obscure que...