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  • Microsoft drops widely hated Xbox One features

    Microsoft has heard the howls of protest from its gaming customers and is removing the handcuffs from its upcoming Xbox One. The Xbox One games console is not in the hands of gamers yet, but it has already insulted and annoyed the gaming community. Microsoft had to either back off or accept losing much of the ...

  • HTML5 based Magnolia 5.0 arrives to replace the grey CMS

    Magnolia International introduced its Magnolia 5.0 content management system (CMS) on Thursday, which looks to replace dated, grey CMS software. Magnolia 5.0 is an open source Java CMS, and it has taken inspiration from mobiles and tablets for the latest iteration of its online editing tool, with version 5.0 able to support editing from both desktop and tablet computers whether they're ...

  • France threatens Google with privacy fines says other European countries to follow

    PARIS -- France is giving Google three months to abide by the country's data privacy laws or be fined. The chief of the French agency that regulates information technology says that five other European countries are taking similar steps in a staggered offensive against Google's privacy policy between now and the end of July. The French agency says Spain joined France in the first ...

  • Software guru John McAfee outdoes Charlie Sheen in sweary new video rant with semi-naked models

    ECCENTRIC software pioneer John McAfee is back in the spotlight - lashing out at the anti-virus software that bears his name in a profanity-laced ...

  • Living in a smart world

    As former CIA whistle-blower Edward Snowden hides out in Hong Kong over the expose of US government data mining, technology experts say we must prepare for the fallout of our plugged-in, wired-up world.While today's technology promises to make our lives easier, linking us together and putting vast amounts of information at the user's fingertips, many of us are generating data without ...


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Movie Review

21 [Blu-Ray]

21 [Blu-Ray]

Although based on real events as recounted in novelist Ben Mezrichs first nonfiction book Bringing Down the House, the story in 21 has been carefully molded into a nearly perfect specimen of by-the-numbers three-act moviemaking. It takes the basic scenario from Mezrichs book--a group of MIT ... ...

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  • Rural web connectivity Govt short of Rs 13645cr

    Bharat Broadband Network Limited , the special purpose vehicle that will implement the nationwide project, aims to cover 10,000 gram panchayats, which will be a small part of the 2,50,000 panchayats that the government wants to cover by 2015. According to an internal telecom department note outlining the progress of optic fibre network, tenders for electronic equipment will be floated by the end ...

  • MTS launches MBlaze in 37 Tamil Nadu towns

    Sistema Shyam TeleServices , which offers telecom services under the brand name MTS, today announced the launch of high speed mobile broadband service MBlaze in 37 towns across Tamil Nadu. With this roll ...

  • MSat bets on new hires to log $5bn in sales

    Mahindra Satyam has hired at least 35 new sales managers and five industry vertical heads as it makes targeted efforts to win new clients and get more business from existing clients. The software exporter is looking to win large outsourcing contracts from banks, manufacturers and healthcare firms as it targets $5 billion (Rs 29,365 crore) in sales by 2015. "Clearly, the focus is on winning ...

  • Apples hotspot security is easily broken

    Apple implemented to provide all users with a secure password option. But researchers at Germany's University of Erlangen say that the way that the keys are generated, which uses a combination of a short English word along with random numbers, is too predictable. Apparently Apple, in its wisdom, used a word list that contained only 52,500 entries. This meant cracking the hotspot took ...

  • Russians and US set up cyber hotline

    have set up a cyber-war hotline which mimics the "red phone" of the cold-war. The move is the result of a two year discussion on how best to collaborate on the issue of online threats. It is designed to avoid an accidental or catastrophic cyber war and "reduce the possibility that a misunderstood cyber incident could create instability or a crisis in our bilateral ...

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