NEW YORK - In a remote corner of rural Java, a blacksmith and his family were astounded last week to learn that the American woman who helped save them from poverty 26 years ago was Ann Dunham, an anthropologist better known as the late mother of US President Barack Obama.
BHUBANESWAR - State-run telecom operator Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd (BSNL) will expand its third-generation (3G) network across Orissa by the year-end, a senior company official said Sunday.
LONDON - A British man has been tagged "The Sperminator" for getting twelve girls pregnant after wooing them on social networking site Facebook.
HAMBURG - Ever wonder where you stored a certain file on your computer? If you have the new Windows 7 or even Windows Vista on your computer, you won't need any extra software to answer that question.
WASHINGTON - With the technology industry looking on, the Supreme Court on Monday will explore what types of inventions should be eligible for a patent in a pivotal case that could undermine such legal protections for software.
MADISON, Wis. - A Wisconsin man who got his cheesehead hat signed by President Barack Obama has decided to donate it to a museum rather than sell it on eBay.
SAN FRANCISCO - E-commerce giant eBay has settled its long-running legal feud with the founders of Skype, clearing the way for a $2-billion sale of the internet telephony pioneer, the company announced Friday.
ARMONK, N.Y. - IBM Corp.
DULUTH, Minn. - Operating a motorized recliner while drunk apparently drives up the chair's value.
NEW YORK - AOL, the Internet service provider owned by Time Warner Inc., on Friday named Gilt Groupe CEO Susan Lyn0e to its board.
WEST POINT, Ga. - Knology Inc., a cable, phone and Internet services provider, said it posted a $3.3 million quarterly loss because of hefty accounting charges and other costs to amend a credit facility.
BANGALORE - Infosys Technologies, in association with Oracle, will offer managed services platform that will help companies streamline their human resource (HR) operations and reduce costs.
NEW YORK - A bright forecast from Cisco Systems and upbeat economic news sent stocks soaring Thursday and propelled the Dow Jones industrials back above 10,000.
MILWAUKEE - Unemployed and desperate, a 19-year-old Sheboygan man is trying to sell one of the only things he owns - his name.
ARLINGTON, Va. - Stanley Inc. received a five-year contract worth up to $49 million to provide cybersecurity services to an arm of the Pentagon, the company said Wednesday.
WASHINGTON - Carly Fiorina's claim to fame - her five-and-a-half years as chief executive at Hewlett-Packard Co.
NEW YORK - JDA Software Group Inc., which makes inventory management software for retailers, said Thursday it has agreed to buy rival i2 Technologies Inc.
BRUSSELS - EU lawmakers and governments agreed on new rights for Internet users Thursday, aiming to protect them from arbitrary crackdowns on those who illegally download music and movies on the Internet.
NEW DELHI - In order to enable easy access to its cost-effective business productivity software, Microsoft Thursday launched its online services in India.
SAN JOSE, Calif. - The Semiconductor Industry Association said Thursday its forecast for global chip sales is brighter than its previous projections, reflecting an improving economy.
MUMBAI - Roamware, Inc., a global leader in mobile roaming software and solutions, today announced that it has been awarded the Excellence in Brand Innovation Award yesterday at a ceremony at the World Brand Congress.
San Francisco - The sequel to the famous Assassin's Creed will be releasing on 17th of November for the gamers to feast upon and will be called Assassin's Creed II.
TOKYO - Sales of Microsoft Corp.'s new Windows 7 operating system have been "fantastic" in Japan since its launch last month, CEO Steve Ballmer said Thursday.
SAN FRANCISCO - Cisco Systems Inc.
SAN FRANCISCO - Cisco Systems Inc.'s latest results show that the world's No.
SAN FRANCISCO - Cisco Systems Inc.
ALISO VIEJO, Calif. - Smith Micro Software Inc.
NEW YORK - Standard & Poor's warned Wednesday that Warren Buffett's bid for Burlington Northern Santa Fe Corp.
SAN FRANCISCO - Cisco Systems Inc.
NEW YORK - A new study confirms what your 130 Facebook friends and scores of Twitter followers may have already told you: The Internet and mobile phones are not linked to social isolation.
Comcast Corp.'s answer to the growing popularity of watching video over the Internet is to launch its own online video service in December that would let subscribers view cable TV shows and movies on their PCs at no additional charge.
REDMOND, Wash. - Microsoft Corp. says it is cutting 800 more jobs.
HOLMDEL, N.J. - Vonage Holdings Inc.
NEW YORK - The legal challenges to Intel Corp.'s sales tactics mounted Wednesday as New York's attorney general accused the world's biggest computer chip maker of using "illegal threats and collusion" to dominate.
PHILADELPHIA - Comcast Corp. reported a 22 percent increase in third-quarter earnings, buoyed by an investment gain and a lower tax rate as it stepped up promotions on its bundled video, phone and Internet plans.
SAN FRANCISCO - Google Inc.'s quarterly lobbying expenses eclipsed $1 million for the first time during the summer as the company tried to build on its dominance of Internet search and expand into other markets.
The role-playing fantasy has been a staple of electronic gaming since the 1970s, when students cobbled together interactive quests on university mainframes.
WASHINGTON - Scientists from the University of Missouri are working on a novel software that would enable computers to search inside videos, detect humans and specific objects, and perform other video analysis tasks.
BELLEVUE, Wash. - Microsoft Corp. is giving its MSN Web portal a long-overdue makeover and says it hopes the new site will funnel more people to Bing, the software maker's search engine.
SEOUL, South Korea - Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer said corporate spending on information technology will not recover to levels seen in recent years before the global economic slowdown.
SEATTLE - Personal computers are changing - and not just because of the recent launch of Windows 7.
MUMBAI - In a move that combines the power of virtualization technology and cloud omputing, Reliance Data Center, a part of Reliance Communications, today announced the launch of "Reliance Cloud Computing Services" - hosted infrastructure service for its customers, based on the Microsoft platform.
OpenDNS is a major DNS service provider.
CentOS Enterprise Linux 5 is built from the Red Hat Enterprise Linux source code.
Blender is popular open source, cross platform suite of tools for 3D content creation.
CentOS comes with OpenJava JRE installed.
XML has set ubiquitary standards for representing data.
There are a majority of enterprises running Java applications and working on Java web development framework.
We had already focused on JDK 7 features in our post - Java/JDK 7 downloaded.
WASHINGTON - A team of palaeontologists and archaeologists, who studied fossil evidence from Australia, Timor, Flores, Java and India, has shown that Komodo Dragons most likely evolved in Australia around 3-4 million years ago and dispersed westward to Indonesia.
TOKYO - Sony reported a smaller-than-expected 26.3 billion yen ($289 million) quarterly loss as cost cuts combined with healthy sales of PlayStation 3 game consoles and Michael Jackson hits helped it inch toward recovery.
NEW YORK - Want to go to a World Series game? Try the Big Apple.
NEW YORK - Verizon Wireless' answer to the iPhone - the Droid - will go on sale for $200 next week as the company taps into the growing appetite for smart phones that go far beyond making calls.
SAN FRANCISCO - Google Inc. wants to answer your mobile phone calls when you can't or just don't want to talk.
What could be the best way to fillip your ecommerce in WordPress? Well, there are some cool Wordpress plugins for ecommerce that can make your online business effortless.
WordPress themes are immensely popular among bloggers looking to generate online newspapers site.
In the ever-increasing crowd of blogs it takes some SEO techniques to set out your blog from the rest of the pack.
Which is your favorite blogging platform - WordPress or Blogger? A majority of bloggers answer that they started with Google's Blogger but have shifted to WordPress now.
After our stint with Aweber, we decided to review another leading email marketing and email news letter service, Constant Contact.
While searching for the top email marketing services we came across one of the leading service providers - AWeber.
Twinkle seems to be one of the most ambitious Linux softphones. This free open source softphone offers voice communications and instant messaging using SIP protocol.
Mozillla releases Firefox 3.5.1 update version for Windows, Mac, and Linux on Tuesday.
Windows 7+Intel= "Wintel" -- Well, the mathematical operation in question is not that boring because it holds great benefit for all you laptop users.
Often we come across a question which is the best way to partition a hard drive on PCs? Well, there could be no specific answer to it, except that it would rely on your requirements of performance reliability and usability.
Suppose you are running an organization with mission-critical Linux servers in one location and with IT experts.
There is a serious scam involving IRS (Internal Revenue Service, USA) which can fool even the most web-savvy people.
Are you all set for the scariest Halloween party? If you are done with your Halloween costumes, here's some cool idea to dash off your Halloween.
Well, there are loads of photo gallery software out there and a lot more queued up for debut.
With perilous threats from crackers and script kiddes lurking in the network, IT administrators could do no better than placing a firewall protection.
This video shows you how you can tap the free electricity in a phone line, which often stays even if your power goes out (loadshedding), and use it to light a table-lamp and more.
KnowEm is the new buzz in the social networking media that filters unclaimed usernames at 120 social media sites.
PROCTOR, Minn. - Police in Minnesota have had to start over again an online auction for a motorized recliner used by a man who pleaded guilty to driving it drunk.
LONDON - British police on Tuesday released a new video imagining what missing girl Madeleine McCann would look like now, at age six, and urged Internet users to spread the pictures as widely as they can.
WICHITA, Kan. - Online auction house eBay says it has begun removing several items put up for sale by anti-abortion activists trying to raise funds for the man accused of killing a Kansas abortion provider.
TORONTO - Facebook has won 712 million dollars in damages after a California court ruled against a spammer for trying to get personal information from the users of the social networking website.
Opera widget are sophisticated tools that take your experience beyond Internet browsing.
SEATTLE - Microsoft Corp. reports its earnings for the fiscal first quarter on Friday before the opening bell.
Microsoft's newest browser Internet Explorer 8 (IE8) is the smartest challenge to Mozilla's Firefox.
FRANKFURT - Google Inc. is launching a new online service that will let readers buy electronic versions of books and read them on such gadgets as cell phones, laptops and possibly e-book devices.
With recession hitting hard on the economy, businesses are holding back on ways to minimize IT expenditure.
I am optimistic, but the proof will be in the pudding.
Hosted CRM or on-demand CRM or web based CRM service provides a simpler, faster and cost-effective customer relationship management services for businesses.
The real power users on Twitter are celebrities like Ashton Kutcher, Britney Spears and Kim Kardasian to name a few.
Is you PC scaring you this Halloween? Most of you must have been googling for Halloween costumes for quite sometime now.
LONDON - A series of online competitions are being planned in Britain with the objective of converting would be computer hackers into cyber security "top guns".
REDMOND, Wash. - Microsoft Corp. says its new computer security program can be downloaded starting on Tuesday.
WASHINGTON - Korean computer scientists have developed a novel security language for home networks that could ward off cyber attack in homes.
Cisco Unified Service Delivery provides service providers like you with the technologies to fully integrate, secure and virtualize their service delivery infrastructures in an unique way.
In our top 10 CRM software we had mentioned two widely used open source CRM software - SugarCRM and vTiger.
Windows 7 Enterprise edition is the most advanced Windows operating system designed to meet the demands of enterprise customers. The Enterprise edition is a segment of Windows Optimized Desktop that includes the Microsoft Desktop Optimization Pack (MDOP) tools and will only be available to customers with Microsoft Software Assurance.
Those of you planning to set up an online enterprise or already have one, know that there are different types of web hosting plans out there.
CAIRO - Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao has said that China is not courting Africa to satisfy its booming need for energy.
LONDON - A British man has threatened Cheryl Cole to pay him millions of pounds or he would continue to shame her with a porn X-rated website, it has emerged.
LAHORE - Welcoming Minister of State for External Affairs Shashi Tharoor's suggestions of hosting India, Pakistan one-day matches in the US, the United States Cricket Association (USACA) has said that it is keen on hosting the arch rivals.
WASHINGTON - A new video game developed by an online gaming site along with scientists from University of Michigan has been found to improve intelligence.
