The World's Hardest-Working Billionaire
Forbes - 05:30 AM
Wendy Tanaka, Forbes.com
If you had a couple of billion dollars, would you strap on a BlackBerry, jump on a plane and give a speech about why consumers should love your product?
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Sharing medical information on Google Health 'a risk to privacy': Experts
ANI - Thu, Jun 5
London, June 5 (ANI): Sharing medical information on Web sites like Google Health may be problematic for people when it comes to their privacy, warn experts.
Facebook, Myspace users fear 'media intrusion'
ANI - Thu, Jun 5
London, June 5 (ANI): While social networking sites, like Orkut, Facebook and Myspace, have readers posting all sorts of personal details online, a large number of young users insist that they would be more watchful before putting such content online if they knew the media might use them, says a new poll.
Reading devices for digital storage media
IANS - Tue, Jun 3
Frankfurt, June 3 (DPA) You can find them in cell phones, digital cameras and navigation systems. They are digital storage cards, and they can be enormous - at least in a digital sense - holding hundreds of photos or a plethora of large documents.
New iPhone Is Already Here
Forbes - Tue, Jun 3
Brian Caulfield, Forbes.com
The launch of the next-generation iPhone promises to be Steve Jobs' greatest stunt yet.
MapJack takes Thai 'Sin City' mapping images offline
ANI - Sat, May 31
Melbourne, May 31 (ANI): Web mapping company MapJack has removed controversial photographs of the streets at Pattaya in Thailand, some of which showed Western males mingling with bar girls in the town's red light areas.
Many Malaysian leaders turn bloggers
IANS - Sat, May 31
Kuala Lumpur, May 31 (IANS) Blogging is the new buzzword in Malaysia with more and more politicians and others in public life taking to it.
Cheap solar power now within reach, says study
IANS - Fri, May 30
Sydney, May 30 (IANS) It has been called the holy grail of the modern era - cheap solar energy. And scientists say it may be within our grasp soon.
Bond's Deadly Toys
Forbes - Fri, May 30
Some of James Bond's gizmos were fanciful. Others are quite realistic. Most of them are extremely cool.
Proceeding allowed against Baazee.com for sex clip auction
IANS - Thu, May 29
New Delhi, May 29 (IANS) The Delhi High Court Thursday allowed proceedings against Avinash Bajaj, managing director of Baazee.com, for allowing an auction of a pornographic video clip involving two students on his website.
'Tier 1 Indian cites to lose IT jobs to tier 2 cities'
IANS - Thu, May 29
Kochi, May 29 (IANS) In five years, 1.7 million jobs in Information Technology (IT) sector in India will move out of tier 1 cities like Delhi, Mumbai, Pune, Bangalore and Hyderabad, to tier 2 cities, Siddhartha Bhattacharya, Infopark's chief executive officer, said here.
Tracking Portuguese Goa's dreaded agent via cyberspace
IANS - Thu, May 29
Panaji, May 29 (IANS) He was a secret service agent who used to torment freedom fighters when Goa was under Portuguese rule. Now some crucial missing links on 'Agente Monteiro' have surfaced in cyberspace.
The World's Most Expensive Cellphones
Forbes - Wed, May 28
What's the difference between a phone that costs $300,000 and one that costs $100? Details, details, details.
Scientists devise 'P4P' system for faster, efficient web usage
ANI - Wed, May 28
Washington, May 28 (ANI): Current Internet usage puts a great deal of strain on available bandwidth for transmitting data. And to solve this problem, researchers at Yale University have engineered a system to make the Internet work more efficiently, in which Internet Service Providers (ISPs) and Peer-to-Peer (P2P) software providers can work cooperatively to deliver data.
Net savvy 96-year-old blogs to share ideas in online world
IANS - Wed, May 28
At an age when people begin to lose interest in many aspects of the world around them, 96-year-old Randall Butisingh not only mastered the intricacies of the internet but also began his own blog, which describes him as one of the world's oldest bloggers and shows him as a man with a remarkable catholicity of interests.
Regular Facebook, MySpace status updates can reveal your personality
ANI - Fri, May 23
Melbourne, May 23 (ANI): If you are the sorts who keep on changing your Facebook status from time to time, then you are one big attention seeking extrovert, says a social networking analyst.
10 Devices That Put The Web In Your Pocket
Forbes - Fri, May 23
Getting the full Internet experience on a device that you can hold will happen sooner than you think.
Your Future Web Life
Forbes - Fri, May 23
In the always-connected future, devices in your home will touch the Web multiple times a day--whether you know it or not.
How to protect yourself from 'cyberspite'
ANI - Thu, May 22
London, May 22 (ANI): You buy something from eBay, find out it's defective and return it leaving a negative comment about the seller on the site. The next day you find the seller has retaliated by posting a nasty comment about you, branding you a time-waster. Suddenly you're persona non grata among all the sellers who don't want anything to do with you.
Net downloads in UK set for age verification systems
ANI - Thu, May 22
London, May 22 (ANI): The British Board of Film Classification (BBFC) is launching age ratings for downloaded video content and video games.
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