The Indian government is planning to roll out a new and improved Aakash 2 tablet in early October and Google just announced a Course Builder that will help universities monitor and enhance their online education offerings. We take a look at some of the top websites that will help you learn online. Khan academy Started [...]
Washington: Spurred by growth in Brazil, India, and Indonesia, Facebook increased its user count to 955 million, but the popular social network said over 83 million of them were fake accounts it wants to disable. Facebook said it had 59 million monthly active users in India as of June 30, 2012, an increase of 84 percent [...]
San Francisco: Microsoft Tuesday introduced the preview version of Outlook.com, a new free web-based personal email service with cleaner user interface and integration with social networks like Facebook and Twitter. “We think the time is right to reimagine email. So today, we’re introducing a preview of Outlook.com,” Chris Jones, a Microsoft corporate vice president, wrote in [...]
Priyanka Suresh feedback@postnoon.com If you are an animal lover but have not been able to keep a pet thanks to anxious parents or building constraints then the virtual world has a solution to your problems. Neopets Who needs stereotypical animals when one has Neopets! A Nickelodeon initiative, Neopets was started way back in 1999 with [...]
With Yahoo! launching its newest web browser, Axis, Google knocking out new versions of Chrome at an alarming rate, Firefox and Microsoft are hanging on for dear life. So whose side are you on? Google Chrome As much as it pains for a Firefox user to admit, Google Chrome, as of May 2012, is the [...]
With Facebook’s highly-publicised acquisition of Instagram, photo-sharing apps are back in focus. Here’s taking a look at some of the most downloaded apps It’s all over the news —Facebook buys Instagram, the photo-sharing company for a whopping $1 billion. Why Mark Zuckerberg would pay twice the evaluated value for the 17-month old company is a [...]
SAN FRANCISCO: Twitter on Monday announced that it has bought mobile blogging startup Posterous and will put engineers behind the popular “lifestreaming” service to work on special projects. “This team has built an innovative product that makes sharing across the Web and mobile devices simple — a goal we share,” San Francisco-based Twitter said in [...]
SAN FRANCISCO: Yahoo! filed suit against Facebook in a California court on Monday accusing the social networking giant of infringing on 10 patents held by the Internet pioneer. Yahoo!, in a 19-page lawsuit filed in US District Court for the Northern District of California, accused Facebook of infringing on patents in several areas including advertising, [...]
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Andhra Pradesh tops in revenge murders over illicit affairs according to the National Crime Records Bureau statistics. The motive for 445 murders, reported in the State last year, was revenge on cheating partners or their paramours. This amounts to 16 per cent of the murder cases registered here. While the motive for 317 murder cases [...]
Don’t blame the weather for your gloominess. Good rainfall last week and the forecast of further rains due to an active South-West monsoon prompts farmers to sow crops in 50,000 hectares more than last year in Andhra Pradesh. The acreage is expected to increase 25-30 per cent over the normal area of 81.12 lakh hectares, [...]
The man who took a ‘stand’ at Taksim Square
A man stood still in Istanbul’s Taksim Square: silent, staring straight ahead, he had not moved for hours. His peaceful action, on the square that police cleared of protesters on Saturday and where the Turkish authorities have banned gatherings, was a new form of protest. He arrived Monday evening as night was falling and took [...]
As a conscious citizen watching the unfolding of the soap from Bihar, I am constrained to do some hard talk because all these worthies are playing with my life and my children’s. You may well ask how. Because what is happening is not an internal matter of a party or a Front but dividing the nation on communal lines more acutely than they did in the past. And communal venom has no anti-venom. It is deadly.
Corporal punishment in AP schools
The Public Interest Litigation filed in the Andhra Pradesh (AP) High Court on Saturday challenging the inaction of the State government in preventing ‘corporal punishment’ to children in schools calls for attention. Mohammed Shahbaz Ahmed Khan, a City resident, moved the PIL contending that as per the United Nations’ convention, the State was required to [...]
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