Technology News

Neither Microsoft Corp nor Yahoo Inc wants to blink first in the software giant's proposed $41.7 billion takeover of the Web pioneer but as the gamesmanship drags on, archrival Google Inc, the merger's raison d'etre, is the biggest beneficiary.

Cell phone use is already linked to an increased risk of brain tumour. Now, a new study claims that radiation from mobiles affects human skin too. A team of researchers in Finland has carried out the study and found that living tissue responds to mobile phone radiation which alters protein expression in people, the BMC Genomics journal reported.

Yahoo's board of directors were to meet to discuss Microsoft's USD 44.6 billion buyout offer, a media report said.

Will Yahoos' yodels be silenced? Yahoo Inc employees fretted on Friday that their fun-loving culture, summed up by early company ads featuring a cowboy yodel, could get quashed by the comparatively stodgy software behemoth that wants to gobble it up.

India's Internet services were operating at about 80 percent of capacity on Friday after breaks in undersea cables disrupted Web access, and normal services could be restored in a week, an industry official said.

Twenty-nine India-based companies have been listed among the best 100 IT service providers in a new survey carried out with a view to assist business heads of major outsourcers identify reliable, innovative and tech savvy partners.

Monster Worldwide, parent company of Monster.com, premier global online employment solution, has announced the launch of SMS based job search application in India.

Wipro Technologies, the global IT services arm of Wipro Limited, has opened a BPO centre in Cebu in the Philippines as part of its strategy to build global delivery capabilities.

Queen Elizabeth is joining the YouTube generation.
Buckingham Palace on Sunday said the 81-year-old monarch will post her traditional Christmas Day message -- normally broadcast on television -- on the video-sharing Web site as well this year.

The foundation that runs and accepts donations for the online encyclopedia Wikipedia neglected to do a basic background check before hiring a chief operating officer, who had been convicted of theft, drunken driving and fleeing a car accident.

The three largest Internet companies have agreed to pay a combined USD 31.5 million to settle federal civil allegations they took ads for illegal gambling, the US Attorney for eastern Missouri has said.

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.

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.

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.

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.