Social networking goes mobileAugust 2nd, 2009 NEW DELHI - Are you constantly on the move and don't have time to log on to your computer to be in touch with your friends? Coming to your rescue now is your mobile phone through which you can access any social networking site, anytime, anywhere. Take college student Ajay Kumar for instance.
Did you know you can access your computer from anywhere?January 31st, 2009 NEW DELHI - Did you know that through the Internet you can access your computer from almost anywhere?
Relatively few of us have taken advantage of facilities like Google Document, Zoho Offline Office or Hotmail co-founder Sabeer Bhatia's Live Document. These provide softwares like Word, Excel or Power Point.
High school student charged with designing computer software to shut teachers out of gradingJune 14th, 2009 Student charged with keeping teachers from grading
CLIFTON PARK, N.Y. — A high school computer whiz didn't get a high grade for a recent feat: designing software to shut teachers out of the grading system.
Gmail outage challenges Google engineersSeptember 1st, 2009 SAN FRANCISCO - A disruption to Google's Gmail service frustrated users throughout the world Tuesday and flummoxed engineers at the giant internet company. Google said the problems started early in the morning and were not resolved until approximately 2330 GMT.
IT major IBM to enter mobile application segmentJune 17th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Targeting users of business and smart phones, computer services major IBM Wednesday announced a $100-million investment in the mobile services space globally, including India. "IBM is investing to create technology in its labs that brings simple, easy-to-use services to the millions of people who have bypassed the personal computer as their primary method of accessing the Internet, and instead use their mobile devices for conducting financial transactions, entertainment, shopping and more," IBM said in a statement.
Scientists develop new language to improve home computer securitySeptember 19th, 2009 WASHINGTON - Korean computer scientists have developed a novel security language for home networks that could ward off cyber attack in homes. Like companies, banks, and other big organizations, domestic and small office networks are just as vulnerable to hacking, malicious computer code, worms, viruses, and eavesdropping.
Brazil's Power.com sues Facebook over access to users' informationJuly 10th, 2009 Power.com sues Facebook over access to users dataNEW YORK — A small Web company is handing the world's biggest online hangout a counterpunch. Power.com has sued Facebook, saying the site doesn't follow its own policy of giving users control over the content they share.
New language protects home computersSeptember 18th, 2009 WASHINGTON - Scientists have developed a security language to protect home networks from cyber attacks. Companies, banks and other organisations take internet security very seriously, erecting firewalls and IT departments to protect them from attacks.
Chinese hack into Indian embassies, steal Dalai Lama's documentsMarch 29th, 2009 TORONTO - A China-based cyber spy network has hacked into government and private systems in 103 countries, including those of many Indian embassies and the Dalai Lama, an Internet research group said here Saturday. The Information Warfare Monitor (IWM), which carried out an extensive 10-month research on cyber spy activities emanating from China, said the hacked systems include the computers of Indian embassies and offices of the Dalai Lama.
New Opera technology allows content sharing without external serverJune 16th, 2009 With IT giants Google, Microsoft and Yahoo into cloud computing, Opera seems to follow the suite, but with a different approach. Opera Software ASA on Tuesday launched a new technology that would allow the Web browser to double up as a Web server.
Sony belatedly enters 'netbook' market, to sell low-cost mini PC starting in AugustJuly 7th, 2009 Sony belatedly to join 'netbook' market in AugustTOKYO — Sony Corp. said Tuesday it will launch a tiny new laptop starting in August, the company's belated entry into the growing but cutthroat "netbook" PC market.
Now, green software that uses facial detection for energy savingsJuly 21st, 2009 LONDON - Scientists in the U.K. have come up with a new software that detects whether or not you are looking at your computer and switches off the display accordingly.
Satyam internal audit scope to be agreed upon: Brahmayya & CoJanuary 16th, 2009 CHENNAI - The government-appointed board of Satyam Computer Services Limited will have to define the scope of work for the city-based Brahmayya & Co that has been appointed as the beleaguered IT bellweather's internal auditor, an official of the accounting firm said Saturday. 'We were sounded out about the assignment by the authorities and we gave our consent.
First quantum computer could threaten security and data, warns expertJuly 31st, 2009 WASHINGTON - A Tel Aviv University researcher has claimed that the first quantum computer could overnight threaten our security and our data. Dr. Julia Kempe, of Tel Aviv University's Blavatnik School of Computer Science, says that these new computers, still in the theoretical stage, will be many times more powerful than the computers that protect our data now.
Indian-American scientist creates top web technologyMarch 2nd, 2009 WASHINGTON - HashCache, the technological brainchild of a team of Princeton computer science researchers led by an Indian American scientist, has drawn recognition as a revolutionary way to expand internet access around the world. Created by a team of researchers headed by computer science professor Vivek Pai, the new efficient data storage system was featured as one of the top 10 emerging technologies of the year in Technology Review, a scientific magazine published by Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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