2G data rates reduced by 80 per cent
Yahoo! India News - 18 hours agoThe earlier price of 10p per 10 KB has been reduced by 80 percent and will now be charged at 2p per 10 KB. More »2G data rates reduced by 80 per cent
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iBall launches tablet with dual SIM, FM & GPS
Yahoo! India News - 17 hours agoThe iBall Slide 7334i has a 1 GHz dual core processor, 1 GB RAM, 16 GB inbuilt memory, and Android 4.1 OS. But the tablet gets too small a battery. More »iBall launches tablet with dual SIM, FM & GPS
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Nokia Asha 301 dual SIM selling at Rs 5140
Yahoo! India News - 16 hours agoThe dual SIM Asha 301 comes with 3G connectivity and panorama picture capturing ability. The handset allows YouTube streaming, and also has apps such as Facebook, Twitter and WhatsApp. The phone also features a 'lite' version of Mail for Exchange that lets users check work email and sync their calendars and contacts. More »Nokia Asha 301 dual SIM selling at Rs 5140
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Internet monitoring must have proper limits, Merkel tells Obama
Reuters - 11 hours agoBERLIN (Reuters) - German Chancellor Angela Merkel told U.S. President Barack Obama on Wednesday that government monitoring of Internet communications needed to remain within proper limits. "I made clear that although we do see the need for gathering information, the topic of proportionality is always an important one and the free democratic order is based on people feeling safe," Merkel said at a joint news conference with Obama. ... More »Internet monitoring must have proper limits, Merkel tells Obama
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WikiLeaks' Assange fears U.S., says will stay in embassy
Reuters - 13 hours agoBy Andrew Osborn LONDON (Reuters) - WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange says he will not leave the sanctuary of the Ecuadorean Embassy in London even if Sweden stops pursuing sexual assault claims against him because he fears arrest on the order of the United States. In an interview with Reuters and others to mark the first anniversary of taking refuge in the cramped diplomatic building, Assange said he remained hopeful he might be able to leave but offered little evidence to suggest he would be finding new living quarters anytime soon. "I wouldn't say I wouldn't leave," he said. ... More »WikiLeaks' Assange fears U.S., says will stay in embassy
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Netflix to bring video streaming service to The Netherlands
Reuters - 15 hours agoREUTERS - Netflix Inc will launch its TV and movie streaming service in The Netherlands later this year, expanding its reach further into Europe, the company said on Tuesday. Netflix boasts 29.2 million streaming subscribers in the United States and 7.1 million in international markets, delivering movies and television shows to Canada, Great Britain, Ireland, Scandinavia and parts of Latin America and the Caribbean. The company generates profits in the United States and Canada, but has lost money as it expanded into foreign markets. Netflix projects a profit of up to $149 million from its U.S. ... More »Netflix to bring video streaming service to The Netherlands
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China completes Internet, phone monitoring scheme for Tibet
Reuters - 12 hours agoBEIJING (Reuters) - China has completed a monitoring scheme in restive Tibet that requires all telephone and internet users to register under their real names, state media said on Wednesday, as part of a campaign to crack down on what officials describe as rumours. Tibetans are already closely watched, due to decades of often violent unrest in protest at Chinese rule, which Beijing blames on exiled spiritual leader the Dalai Lama. By the end of last year, all 2.76 million fixed line and mobile telephone users and 1. ... More »China completes Internet, phone monitoring scheme for Tibet
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Angelina Jolie stunt double sues News Corp over hacking
Reuters - 23 hours agoBy Jennifer Saba REUTERS - A stunt double for Oscar-winning actress Angelina Jolie has sued News Corp over allegations its British newspapers hacked her phone, the first lawsuit in the United States against the company since the scandal broke two years ago. The lawsuit, filed on June 13 by professional stunt double Eunice Huthart, said reporters from News Corp's tabloids The Sun and the defunct News of the World, hacked her mobile phone while she was working for Jolie on location in Los Angeles. ... More »Angelina Jolie stunt double sues News Corp over hacking
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Microsoft says it freed millions of computers from criminal botnet
Reuters - 22 hours agoBy Jim Finkle BOSTON (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp said that an assault it led earlier this month on one of the world's biggest cyber crime rings has freed at least 2 million PCs infected with a virus believed to have been used to steal more than $500 million from bank accounts worldwide. "We definitely have liberated at least 2 million PCs globally. That is a conservative estimate," Richard Domingues Boscovich, assistant general counsel with Microsoft's Digital Crimes Unit, said in an interview on Tuesday. ... More »Microsoft says it freed millions of computers from criminal botnet
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New CEO begins Alcatel make-over
Reuters - 13 hours agoBy Leila Abboud PARIS (Reuters) - Telecom equipment maker Alcatel-Lucent plans to focus on networking products and high-speed broadband and will slim down with a billion euros in cost cuts by 2015 in a bid to reverse years of losses. The plan unveiled on Wednesday by Michel Combes, the company's new chief executive, will also include more than a billion euros of unspecified asset sales and 2 billion euros in debt re-financing by 2015, followed by a further 2 billion in debt reduction that could include issuing new shares. ... More »New CEO begins Alcatel make-over
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Vodafone may trump Liberty with $10 bln cash bid for Kabel - sources
Reuters - 6 hours agoFRANKFURT/LONDON (Reuters) - Vodafone is discussing a 7.6 billion euros cash bid with Germany's No. 1 cable operator Kabel Deutschland and is confident its offer and absence of antitrust issues put it in a better position than rival Liberty Global, two sources familiar with its thinking said on Wednesday. Liberty Global , which owns Unity Media, Germany's No. 2 cable operator, made an 85-euro-a-share offer on Tuesday, two people familiar with the matter said, just days after sources said Vodafone had offered 81-82 euros a share or 7.2 billion euros in cash. ... More »Vodafone may trump Liberty with $10 bln cash bid for Kabel - sources
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Exclusive - Facebook reaches 1 million active advertisers
Reuters - 21 hours agoBy Jennifer Saba REUTERS (Reuters) - Facebook Inc said on Tuesday it now has 1 million active advertisers globally who used the platform in the last 28 days, a milestone for the company that is seeking to revive its revenue growth. A vast majority of those advertisers are small business owners who have flocked to the world's No. 1 social network. Facebook executives are hoping to net even more small advertisers since 16 million local businesses, ranging from jewelry sellers to clothing stores, set up free pages on the network. ... More »Exclusive - Facebook reaches 1 million active advertisers
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U.S. has struck right balance on Internet surveillance - Obama
Reuters - 10 hours agoBERLIN (Reuters) - The United States has struck the right balance between the need to gather intelligence and safeguarding civil liberties, U.S. President Barack Obama said on Wednesday, following criticism over U.S. Internet surveillance programmes. "I came into office committed to protecting the American people but also committed to our values and our ideals and one of our highest ideals is civil liberties and privacy," Obama said. "I am confident that at this point we have struck the appropriate balance," he said at a joint news conference with German Chancellor Angela Merkel. ... More »U.S. has struck right balance on Internet surveillance - Obama
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BlackBerry shares fall as analyst downgrades stock ahead of earnings
Reuters - 4 hours agoTORONTO (Reuters) - BlackBerry shares fell nearly 4 percent on Tuesday after a Bernstein Research analyst cut his rating on the stock to "underperform" ahead of the company's quarterly earnings release next week. While Bernstein's Pierre Ferragu said he expected disappointing results from the smartphone maker, other analysts have bullish expectations, pointing to an even more volatile run for a generally volatile stock. ... More »BlackBerry shares fall as analyst downgrades stock ahead of earnings
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Acer sees tablet, notebook PC shipments to be flat in Q2
Reuters - 18 hours agoTAIPEI (Reuters) - Acer Inc, the world's No.4 PC vendor, said on Wednesday that it expects notebook and tablet PC shipment to be flat in the second quarter from the first quarter, versus an prediction of 0-5 percent growth made in April. Acer Chairman J.T. Wang made the comment to reporters at the firm's annual shareholder meeting. ... More »Acer sees tablet, notebook PC shipments to be flat in Q2
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Web retailer Fab valued at $1 bln with funding from Tencent
Reuters - 3 hours ago(Reuters) - Fab has raised $150 million from several investors, including Tencent Holdings , that values the online retailer at $1 billion. As part of the funding round Tencent, China's largest online gaming and social networking company, will get to appoint a director to Fab's board, said Jason Goldberg, Fab's chief executive and founder, in a post on his personal blog on Wednesday. "We specifically sought out a strategic partner like Tencent because we are intent on bringing Fab to many new markets," Goldberg said. ... More »Web retailer Fab valued at $1 bln with funding from Tencent
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Microsoft offers hefty bounties to thwart hackers
Reuters - 5 hours agoBy Jim Finkle BOSTON (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp is looking to recruit computer geeks in its ongoing efforts to protect Windows PCs from attacks, offering rewards of as much as $150,000 to anybody who helps identify and fix major security holes in its software. Microsoft unveiled the rewards program, one of the most generous in the high-tech industry to date, on Wednesday as it sought ways to prevent sophisticated attackers from subverting new security technologies it has introduced in the latest versions of the Windows operating system. ... More »Microsoft offers hefty bounties to thwart hackers
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IMF says to extend reach with online economics training
Reuters - 15 hours agoBy Stephanie Simon REUTERS - The International Monetary Fund will make its training sessions on financial policy and debt sustainability available online this year to government officials worldwide, allowing it to reach a bigger audience at lower cost, it said on Wednesday. IMF financial workshops are meant to help governments address economic dilemmas and are currently held in eight training centers worldwide, meaning officials must travel and remain onsite for weeks, said Sharmini Coorey, director of the IMF's Institute for Capacity Development. ... More »IMF says to extend reach with online economics training
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WikiLeaks trial focuses on whether Tweets meet evidence standards
Reuters - 23 hours agoBy Medina Roshan FORT MEADE, Maryland (Reuters) - The court-martial of the U.S. soldier accused of providing reams of classified documents to WikiLeaks in a case illustrating the challenge of keeping secrets in the digital age must decide whether tweets and Web pages can be admitted as evidence. Lawyers for Private First Class Bradley Manning, 25, who is accused with providing more than 700,000 files to the anti-secrecy website in the biggest breach of classified U.S. data in the nation's history, argued on Tuesday that Twitter postings offered by prosecutors do not meet the court's standards. ... More »WikiLeaks trial focuses on whether Tweets meet evidence standards
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NSA head, lawmakers defend U.S. surveillance programs
Reuters - 22 hours agoBy Patricia Zengerle and Tabassum Zakaria WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The head of the National Security Agency said U.S. surveillance programs had helped disrupt more than 50 possible attacks since September 11, 2001, as sympathetic members of Congress also defended the use of the top-secret spying operations. In the first public hearing dedicated to the programs since former NSA contractor Edward Snowden exposed them this month, members of the House of Representatives Intelligence Committee showed little will on Tuesday to pursue significant reforms. Instead, both U.S. ... More »NSA head, lawmakers defend U.S. surveillance programs