Archive for the 'Internet' Category
Posted on January 29 2010 by Manik Jaiswal
US House Websites Hacked By Brazilian Hackers
Investigators are inquiring how Brazilian hackers managed to gain access to 49 US House of Representatives web sites just hours after President Obama’s State of the Union address.
On each of the hacked sites, the usual material was replaced by a white screen and the words: “F— OBAMA!! Red Eye [...]
Posted on January 23 2010 by Manik Jaiswal
US Astronaut Timothy “TJ” Creamer Tweets From Space Station
American astronaut Timothy “TJ” Creamer has sent the first “tweet” from his personal Twitter Account “@Astro_TJ” from space after getting a personal Web connection on the International Space Station.
“Hello Twitterverse! We r now LIVE tweeting from the International Space Station — the 1st live tweet from Space! [...]
Posted on December 18 2009 by Narendra Singh
Twitter Hacked By Iranian Cyber Army: Twitter Hacking Updates.
It seems like Twitter has been hacked by Iranian Cyber Army, some sort of a renegade hacker group that claims to be linked to Iran.
The hackers, giving the email address of iranian.cyber.army@gmail.com, are not too clear in the English, which was poorly translated:
U.S.A Think They Controlling And [...]
Posted on December 1 2009 by Manik Jaiswal
Lance & Shane Atkinson “Largest Spam Gang” Fined $15m by US Court.
At the request of the Federal Trade Commission, a federal judge has ordered the mastermind of a vast international spam network Lance & Shane Atkinson to pay $15.15 million in a default judgment for his role in what was identified by the anti-spam organization [...]
Posted on November 28 2009 by Manik Jaiswal
CAT Servers Crash Across India, Common Admission Test (CAT) Stopped
First day when the MBA entrance exam Common Admission Test (CAT) 2009 went online for the first time, computer servers crashed at several places across the country leading to the cancellation of examinations at these centres.
While there were numerous speculations in terms of technical/operational feasibility, paper [...]
Posted on November 18 2009 by Manik Jaiswal
USA, China, Russia, France & Israel have “Cyber Weapons”.
Warning of a “Cyber Arms Race,” top Web/Internet security firm McAfee said Tuesday that China, France, Israel, Russia and the United States have designed “cyber weapons.”
Cyber warfare looks really terrifying; though, this may be the truth someday.
The internet security firm McAfee made a conclusion on its [...]
Posted on November 16 2009 by Manik Jaiswal
Egypt To Launch New .misr Domain.
Facilitating the millions of Arabic speakers, Egypt has announced the first Arabic domain.
In the fourth meeting of the Internet Governance Forum (IGF) in Egypt’s Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh, the .misr announcement was made.
“Now we can really say that internet will speak Arabic,” said the country’s communications minister Tarek [...]
Posted on November 11 2009 by Narendra Singh
Open Source Programming Language Google Go Launched By Google
Big news for developers out there: Google has just announced the release of a new, open sourced programming language called Go. The company says that Go is experimental, and that it combines the performance and security benefits associated with using a compiled language like C++ with the [...]
Posted on November 6 2009 by Manik Jaiswal
Jim Carrey’s Launched His Fantastic Website
Jim Carrey finally got the permission to use the domain name JimCarrey.com and you’ll be thrilled to know that Jim Carrey has been busy putting it to first-class use.
Sporting his bushy beard, Jim Carrey exposed to reporters that his site is finally ready to launch.
The website itself is a [...]
Posted on October 22 2009 by Narendra Singh
Microsoft Launched Online Store & Retails Stores.
After the worldwide launch of Windows 7 and the launch of retail stores all over the world, Microsoft has unveiled its online store named Microsoft Store, said Trevin Chow, Senior Lead Program Manager for Microsoft Store.
The launched of online store features some new categories like Computers, Laptops and other [...]
Posted on October 6 2009 by Narendra Singh
Hotmail & Live Passwords Leaked Online.
The password details of thousands of Hotmail accounts have been leaked online, according to reports.
Microsoft later confirmed the reports saying they are investigating the issue, and they will help users to regain control of their accounts if necessary.
If you are using Hotmail services (including MSN), protect your account and [...]
Posted on October 1 2009 by Manik Jaiswal
Trace Mobile Number Network & Location anywhere in India.
Hurdles in tracing out details of location of the mobile no. have become history.
Now you can easily figure out the location while browsing few of the pioneering sites.
One among them is http://trace.bharatiyamobile.com
If your handset is stolen then also you need not to hassle around.
Just follow simple [...]
Posted on October 1 2009 by Narendra Singh
FaceBook Faces Vidyartha College Virus.
FaceBook known as the largest and the most amazing social network website worldwide, but now FaceBook is facing some problems too, Vidyartha College FaceBook Virus is a major threat nowadays, it seems like this virus has been lunched to decimate, the huge usage of the famous social website.
This FaceBook virus [...]
Posted on September 26 2009 by Manik Jaiswal
Anchor Links in Google Search Results.
The search engine giant, Google has unleashed a new feature which allows users to jump to the information they want right from the search snippets.
This enhancement in google’s feature bag would definitely save much of the users precious time.
This would help users to navigate large articles more quickly and [...]
Posted on September 17 2009 by Manik Jaiswal
Shashi Tharoor remarked economy class as “cattle class” on twitter.
Shashi Tharoor is in the center of another Controversy.
He remarked economy class as “cattle class,” on twitter, which was strongly disapproved by Congress.
“The party strongly disapproves the statement of the minister. It is unacceptable, not respecting political or any other sensibilities,” said Congress spokesperson Jayanthi [...]
Posted on September 16 2009 by Narendra Singh
New Version of Google Chrome – 3.
Google has launched a new version of its Chrome browser and is promising Linux and Mac versions for mainstream users by the end of the year.
Perhaps the most important improvement over previous versions is a boost in JavaScript performance.
Figures provided by Google show the stable release of [...]
Posted on September 15 2009 by Narendra Singh
ImHalal.com – Exclusive Search Engine for Muslims.
ImHalal.com blogs starts with the quote “Ignorance leads to chaos.”
Which is the main objective behind creating a special search engine for the users who accidentally hit with explicit sexual content.
The first blog at Imhalal.com clarifies’ its serch results help of an example suppose,“If you go searching for [...]
Posted on September 12 2009 by Narendra Singh
IndiaMART Signs Deal With Quasar Media for Online Marketing.
IndiaMART have allotted a budget of around Rs. 25-30 crore for advertising and marketing activities and have appointed Quasar Media as its digital agency for digital marketing campaigns, media planning and media buying.
Mr. Dinesh Agarwal, CEO of IndiaMART 50% of the total advertisingbudget will be [...]
Posted on September 11 2009 by Manik Jaiswal
A Comparative Study of Google Internet Statistics.
Seems that Google has streamlined the cluster of statistics throughout the web and created a small microsite named Google Internet Stats for the UK.
This Google resource accumulates the latest industry facts and frames together in one place.
These have been collected from a number of third party vendors [...]
Posted on September 11 2009 by Narendra Singh
Yahoo Search Engine Deal with Bing.
Prior to July, no one cared about optimizing their sites to appear high in Yahoo! or MSN organic search results.
They were stuck in obscurity with Ask and AOL.
Thanks to the Yahoo-Bing, deal, however, Seth Besmertnik, CEO and Co-Founder of SEO firm Conductor, says clients are gearing up to approach [...]
Posted on September 9 2009 by Manik Jaiswal
Jobs in National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI).
National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI) announced job openings for dynamic leaders with in-depth experience in banking industry with an prominence on electronic payment and settlement systems for the subsequent profiles:
1. Senior Management Positions :
* Managing Director & Chief Executive Officer
* Chief [...]
Posted on September 4 2009 by Manik Jaiswal
Yahoo Launched Yahoo Meme in English.
It’s a micro-blogging service where users post updates that can include photos and/or video. Meme supports reposting and following other users to stay abreast of their updates.
Meme drew similarities to Twitter and Tumblr.
Yahoo Meme launched a few months ago, but only in a Portuguese version.
Yahoo recently launched a Spanish-language version [...]
Posted on September 2 2009 by Manik Jaiswal
Gmail.com went down, affecting free and paying users.
Google’s popular e-mail application Gmail went down Tuesday afternoon for about an hour and a half, in an outage affecting both free and paying users.
Company wrote at posted at 12:53 p.m., “We’re aware of a problem with Google Mail affecting a majority of users. The affected users are [...]
Posted on August 27 2009 by Manik Jaiswal
Loch Ness Monster (Giant Squid) Google Earth.
Jason Cooke found a Loch Ness monster otherwise known as the Giant Squid in Lake Hogwarts, while he was surfing satellite images through goggle earth.
The image was seen at Latitude 57 degrees 12′52.13″ North and Longitude 4 degrees 34′14.16″ West.
Loch Ness monster is believed to be a Plesiosaur, an [...]
Posted on August 5 2009 by Chief Editor
Google Launches “Going Google” against Microsoft.
Google is firing up a Google Apps promotion to try to encourage small and medium-sized businesses in four metropolitan areas (New York, San Francisco, Boston, and Chicago) to “go Google.” They’ve set up a special site called “Apps At Work” for the campaign.
The campaign, called “Going Google ,” has [...]
Posted on July 29 2009 by Chief Editor
Search Deal Between Microsoft and Yahoo, Finally Announced.
The search deal between Microsoft and Yahoo, finally announced. The possibility that Yahoo might be open to a deal involving its search ad business emerged while Microsoft was in the midst of trying to acquire the company last year.
While it is not clear if the real papers [...]
Posted on July 23 2009 by Manik Jaiswal
Nityanand Gopalika, the Internet Predator.
Pennsylvanian state police arrested and identified Nityanand Gopalika as an Indian engineer living in U.S on work visa, he was also charged for soliciting underage girls for sex in several different chat rooms on internet.
He is the first Indian to be involved in such case.
Gopalika was preliminarily arraigned on July 1 [...]
Posted on July 16 2009 by Manik Jaiswal
Ranjan N Acharya Passed away.
Ranjan N Acharya, Corporate Vice President and Human Resource (HR) of Wipro Ltd., passed away on July 15, 2006 at around 6:00 pm.
He was a MBA from Symbiosis Institute of Business Management (1980).
He started his career with TELCO (Pune) 1980 and then moved to Wipro Infotech in 1982.
Ranjan Acharya was a [...]
Posted on July 11 2009 by Narendra Singh
Yahoo to Close GeoCities Hosting Services.
GeoCities, one of the popular free web-hosting services provided by Yahoo is getting closed soon.
Your GeoCities site will no longer appear on the Web after October 26, 2009.
If you have a site hosted there, then you need to act fast now…
If you’d like to move your web site, [...]
Posted on July 9 2009 by News Relay
Cyber Attacks on America & South Korea.
A wave of cyber attacks on website networks in South Korea and the America was actually the work of North Korean hackers, several news agencies are reporting today.
The attacks, which targeted the White House, the Pentagon, and the Washington Post, among other high-level institutions, are raising concerns [...]
Posted on July 8 2009 by Narendra Singh
Google’s Operating System Chrome.
Google announced Google Chrome OS on its blog Tuesday night, saying lower-end PCs called Netbooks from unnamed manufacturers will include it in the second half of 2010.
Linux will run under the covers of the open-source project, but the applications will run on the Web itself.
The blog said, “It’s [...]
Posted on June 25 2009 by News Relay
Google Voice – Phone Number, VoiceMail & Much More.
Google Voice, Phone Number, VoiceMail & Much More is going to be officially released soon now. Being based on Grand Central’s technology, the company that Google acquired back in 2007, the Google Voice service will offer its users a phone number, VoiceMail and a lot of [...]
Posted on June 20 2009 by Manik Jaiswal
Diana Penty is the student of Elite Model Management and its CEO Sushma Puri added, “Diana Penty has a face that is very versatile and appeals to both Indian and international markets and she is also young, beautiful and confident. This makes her the ideal choice for any international brand”.
A top by Varun sardana and [...]
Posted on June 6 2009 by News Relay
Bollywood stars have found the best way to be directly connect to their fans by launching their own website. Super Star Amitabh Bachchan started this trend of blogs and websites and many other celebs just followed his foot step.
Now Kangana Ranaut launches her own website, www.RealKangnaRanaut.com. Kangana Ranaut, the doe-eyed beauty hails from scenic Himachal [...]
Posted on May 22 2009 by News Relay
Microsoft has not even released or confirmed next week’s rumored release of its Kumo search engine, and already the industry is speculating what the new search engine will or will not do, both in terms of functionality and for the company’s search market share.
While little is officially known about Kumo, the Wall Street Journal has [...]
Posted on May 13 2009 by News Relay
We may be coming upon a new era for the Internet search results. And, despite what you may think, Google is not the only player.
New search engines that are popping up across the Web strive to make searches faster, smarter, more personal and more visually interesting.
Some sites, like Twine and hakia, will try to [...]