Stories with tag: Internet

Google Celebrates Copernicus' 540th Birthday With An Animated Heliocentric Model Doodle

Polish Astrologer Nicolaus Copernicus came up with the heliocentric theory proving that the Earth revolves around the Sun.
Kamakshi S, 19th Feb 2013
Burger King's US Twitter Account Hacked, McDonalds Promoted!

Account suspended after it was "taken over" by McDonald's. The handle has now been restored.
Kamakshi S, 19th Feb 2013
Unified Licence May Lead to Higher Broadband Tariff

DoT proposes a onetime fee of Rs 15 crore for ISPs, so those who want to go national will see a huge increase over the current amount.
Swagatam Mukherjee, 18th Feb 2013
Facebook Continues To Address Privacy Issues With New Features

Privacy Shortcuts and filtering out teens in Graph Search to guard against perverts - will that be enough to please the advocates of privacy?
Chandrakant 'CK' Isi, 18th Feb 2013
Cyber Attacks Against Media On The Rise, Rights Group Says

Cyber attacks against journalists and media organizations around the world have increased over the past few years as criminal hackers provide a cheap and easy way of censoring the press, a media rights group said on Thursday.
Reuters, 18th Feb 2013
Web Censorship? 73 URLs 'Defaming' IIPM Blocked, Including UGC Website

The list is topped by a URL belonging to the website of the University Grants Commission (UGC) which clarifies that IIPM "does not have the right of conferring or granting degrees as specified by UGC".
Kailas Shastry, 16th Feb 2013
Pay Facebook To Promote Your Friends' Posts?

Now you can embarrass your friends more by promoting their drunk photos - or more likely, make a startup fundraiser or charity more visible.
Rizwan Memon, 15th Feb 2013
Disabled Piglet Using Wheelchair Becomes Internet Sensation

Two other YouTube videos of Chris playing with a stuffed yellow duck and waking up in an incubator attracted various hits.
Reuters, 15th Feb 2013
Instagram Asks Court To Throw Out Lawsuit Over Service Terms

A San Fransisco Instagram user filed the lawsuit in December last year stating breach of contract by the service.
Reuters, 15th Feb 2013
Broadcasters Blame Zombie Hack On Easy Passwords

A fake message, by cyber criminals, was broadcast on TV in the United States Of America
Reuters, 15th Feb 2013
Google App Store Policy Raises Privacy Concerns

An Australian application developer claimed that Google was providing him with personal information.
Reuters, 15th Feb 2013
Google Celebrates Ghazal Maestro Jagjit Singh’s Birthday With A Demure Doodle

Doodle for his 72nd appears on Google India’s homepage.
Kamakshi S, 08th Feb 2013
Yahoo Inks Pact With Google For Ad Revenue Generation

Websites owned by Yahoo to display ads from Google AdSense, with the two companies sharing ad revenue.
Rahul R, 07th Feb 2013
Instagram Launches Web Feed For Desktop Users

Get the latest photo updates without reaching for your mobile, in your laptop/desktop browser.
Rizwan Memon, 06th Feb 2013
'Safer Internet Day' On Feb 5: Google and Microsoft Tell You To Get Pro-active

Internet companies and the European Union mark the 5th of February every year to promote awareness on cyber safety from the users' perspective.
TechTree News, 05th Feb 2013