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Washington: The US Federal Bureau of Investigation is collaborating in the investigation of a “sophisticated attack” by hackers on Facebook last month, which, according to the social network, has not compromised users’ data. The daily San Francisco Chronicle said Saturday that the FBI is working with Facebook to determine the origin of last month’s hacker [...]
Shaadi.com had a bug that let any person with basic know how of using Internet access and edit profile of strangers without knowing their email id or password. To the credit of the company though, they fixed it within hours of the bug being disclosed. Sheth Raxit, who figured out the work around said that [...]
Library of Congress to archive billions of tweets posted by Americans Anne Renaut The Library of Congress, repository of the world’s largest collection of books, has set for itself the enormous task of archiving something less weighty and far more ephemeral — Americans’ billions of tweets. The venerable US institution is assembling all of the [...]
Just hours after Zynga announced it was cutting ties with Facebook, the company’s share price fell by 13 per cent. This comes close on the heels of job cuts and closures. We map the journey of Farmville’s creator.
While most of the western world has been paying $0.99 for a single track for almost 9 years, Apple slashed the prices of music when their launched iTunes store in India earlier today. In India the songs cost an average of Rs12 per track and in case of new tracks such as that of Green [...]
Apple has finally launched their iTunes store in India and users here can now download more than apps from within iTunes application. The store has a decent collection of hindi movies and songs, and the prices are reasonable enough. The average price of a song is Rs12 and new Bollywood albums such as that of [...]
Andrew Mason, who founded Groupon, the online discounter, has seen his company’s stock take a nosedive since its IPO last year. We take a look at the company’s stratospheric rise and catastrophic fall. Groupon acquisitions MyCityDeal, ClanDescuento, Qpod.jp, Darberry.ru, Beeconomic.com. Groupon bought the Indian deal-of-the-day website SoSasta.com in January 2011, and re-branded it as “Crazeal [...]
Startup Village, a mobile startup incubator in Kochi, Kerala became the first place in India to get 1 Gbps internet connection. The service was inaugurated by Kerala Chief Minister Oommen Chandy earlier this month at their new building in KINFRA Hi-Tech Park. The new building will house six different innovation zones by as many companies, [...]
On Google’s 14th birthday, we take you on a journey through this tech titan’s hits and misses.
It’s David vs Goliath as Rajasthan take on Mumbai’s might
Kolkata: They have shown remarkable fighting spirit despite the demoralising spot-fixing scandal and the Rajasthan Royals will now look to upstage the mighty Mumbai Indians in the second qualifier here tomorrow to book, what would be, a dream final berth in the Pepsi IPL. On paper, Mumbai Indians may appear stronger but Rajasthan will be [...]
21 lawmakers back Chandigarh-born as top US judge
Washington: Ahead of an expected Senate vote on the nomination of Chandigarh-born Indian-American legal luminary Srikanth ‘Sri’ Srinivasan to a top US court, 21 lawmakers have penned their support for him. Srinivasan, 46, currently principal deputy solicitor general of the US last week won unanimous approval from the Senate Judiciary Committee for his nomination as [...]
It was like bereavement: Dravid on spot-fixing
New Delhi: Rajasthan Royals skipper Rahul Dravid says dealing with the turmoil caused by the spot-fixing scandal, which has left his team’s reputation in tatters, has turned out to be as tough as handling “bereavement in some ways”. “I would not lie it was a very tough phase for us. It was a blow to [...]
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The final kick-off for passion
Tonight the football season will finally come to a close with the Champions League final being played at Wembley stadium. It’s been a tumultuous season for all the wrong reasons. The four big leagues were wrapped up early: Manchester United in the EPL, Bayern Munich in the Bundesliga, Juventus in Serie A and Barcelona in [...]
Earlier this week, I received an email about the Gayatri Mantra being proven to be the most divine and powerful hymn in the world. An American scientist called Dr Howard Steingeril is said to have collected hymns, prayers, mantras and invocations from all over the world and from all religions. He tested these for sound [...]
Reporter’s diary: Waste not flowers
A flower is most beautiful when it is in the garden, like a deer or a lamb seen in its natural habitat. If this wisdom is known to the mayor and the GHMC, they would not have wasted several hundred lovely flowers at the function declaring the GHMC’s plan to open 14 biodiversity parks on [...]
Reporter’s diary: Bravo, Naidu
TDP leader Chandrababu Naidu is a visionary. Few will doubt this considering what he did to give Hyderabad a modern face, and many of his welfare schemes are now implemented (of course, renamed after Rajiv Gandhi or Indira Gandhi). But many could not understand his logic of asking for a ban of `500 and `1,000 [...]
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