Technology News: General

New Delhi: What did India search for online last year? For the first time in history, Google's offering a few answers.

The typical users for such services are young men, usually well-educated. Most of them live in metropolitan cities but a good 30 per cent hail from smaller towns. Online matrimonial websites will have served over seven million uses by the end of this year, and business is continuing to boom, so much so that niche marketing has taken over.

Pesky breakdowns in the middle of a busy street due to engine trouble would become a thing of past as future technologies would enable a car flash 'health report' well in advance indicating 'all was not well with it'.

Indian IT service providers are ready to step into the big league now and the trust developed in India for Business Process Outsourcing and ITO is allowing a rich seam of Knowledge Process Outsourcing to be tapped and developed, a leading IT expert said on Monday.

Confronted with mounting privacy protests, Facebook.com has scaled back a Web monitoring feature that notifies one's friends when the Facebook user visits affiliated Web sites, the company said on Thursday.

There is all the reason to feel bad, if your hard drive has crashed, but the good news is that there is life after death for your hard drive and your data can be recovered.

It would have created a new landmark in the history of Indian judiciary as the Supreme Court, for the first time, wanted to use email to communicate its order to a lower court on Wednesday to facilitate faster release of actor Sanjay Dutt and 17 other convicts, who were granted bail on Tuesday.

In an age when knowledge commands a premium and time is money, what better way than a person who can teach to do it over long-distance communications and reach more people, do it in an easy way and make more money? And what better way for a student to save on real-world tution fees?

Investigations still on to find those responsible for the serial UP blasts, where the ugly face of e-mail threats showed up once again - this time threatening the Pakistan Cricket team. But how easy or difficult is it to track these emails?

South Korea's Samsung Electronics said on Thursday it has developed a new digital X-ray system which can deliver sharper images and save time and money.

The Goa government was in for an online shock on Saturday when its Information and Publicity Department’s website was hacked allegedly by a Turkish group that posted anti-America slogans on it.

Apple-lovers can get ready to await the cyber-giant's latest offering: the Leopard operating system. This latest software upgrade is already a runaway hit shortly after its launch in India. A significant upgrade from the previous Tiger operating system, Leopard packs over 300 new features and introduces a completely new desktop.

With the Gujarat elections round the corner, the virtual world has become the new hub for political propaganda. E-mails are sent out daily to over 1 lakh people. Popular sites like Orkut and YouTube are already abuzz with campaign fever. You can even get the latest from your favourite leader and party on such sites. In fact, such sites are now flooded with pro-Modi footage.

Social network Facebook unveiled a new advertising system on Tuesday that will let companies introduce ads into the user pages of its 50 million members, and launch dedicated pages on the site for their brands.

The reported move of the government to extend the tax exemptions under the Software Technology Parks of India (STPI) scheme by another 10 years, ostensibly to provide some relief from the appreciating rupee, is a retrograde step.

Technology has crossed the bridge of messy wires and complicated circuitry into the wire-free world. Making your computer Wi-Fi is a simple process, requiring two dongles, wireless hardware (keyboard, mouse, headphones) and finally, a router for internet connectivity, all minus the trying wires.

Toonz Animation India Pvt Ltd has announced that it has entered in to MoU with Beijing University and Shengyang University in China to set up centres of excellence (CoE) in animation training.

The country's fourth largest software exporter HCL Technologies on Thursday said it will set up five technology hubs across the country which will entail an investment of Rs 1,000 crore each.

Anyone who said the sky is the limit for tourism, might just have to eat his words, because as the scientific community of the world races to the moon, the tourists are on their way to space.

China's anti-cyber virus authorities have warned that a deadly new virus, transmitted by Microsoft's MSN (Microsoft Service Network) instant messaging programme, can steal registered users' accounts and passwords, eventually causing economic losses.