Washington | 7 days ago
Two Indians among 20 Under 20 Thiel Fellows
Washington, May 11 - Two Indian young entrepreneurs are among 20 Under 20 Thiel Fellows chosen to pursue innovative scientific and technical projects, learn entrepreneurship from the ground up, and begin to build the innovative companies of tomorrow.The Indian winners are New Delhi resident Ritesh Agarwal, 19 and Palo Alto, California resident Diwank Singh Tomer, 19, according to an announcement f ... read more

Washington | 1 year ago
Wikipedia, Google join anti-piracy bill protest
Washington, Jan 18 - Wikipedia, the online encyclopedia, went offline Wednesday, joining a daylong internet strike of over a dozen other websites, including Google, to protest proposed US laws purportedly aimed at combating digital piracy.Discussion forums Reddit and Boing Boing, and Firefox browser designer Mozilla also are closing down Wednesday in protest. Hundreds of other sites, such as searc ... read more

San Francisco | 1 year ago
Microsoft announces automatic upgrades for Internet Explorer
San Francisco, Dec 16 - Microsoft Thursday announced that it will automatically upgrade the Internet Explorer - to the latest version to give Windows customers more protection against malicious software.According to the company's blog post, starting from Australia and Brazil next January, users of Windows XP, Vista and Windows 7 will get the IE updates if they have turned on automatic updating via ... read more

London | 1 year ago
Google Chrome is third most popular browser
London, Aug 1 - Google Chrome is now the world's third most popular web browser with one in five users preferring it.Google Chrome has also emerged as Britain's second most popular web browser, edging Mozilla's Firefox and nibbling at Microsoft's Internet Explorer, the current leader. Chrome accounted for 22 percent of the British web market, compared to 45 percent of users preferring Internet Exp ... read more

Frankfurt | 2 years ago
Don't save passwords on your browser
Frankfurt, Jan 16 - Never store unencrypted passwords on a computer's browser. Doing so makes it too easy for hackers to access the data with tools like Trojans and then access private accounts, warns German computer magazine c't.The magazine recommends that people who insist on storing passwords on a browser at least use some kind of master password, which means that all stored access data is saf ... read more

Washington | 2 years ago
Adult sites use bug to track user's browsing history
Washington, Dec 3 - Adult entertainment sites are using a bug to track user behaviour and serve targeted ads.Researchers at the University of California San Diego in the US found 485 popular websites exploiting the bug. The bug allows hackers to see what other sites a user has visited, and to use this information to serve up targeted advertising, reports the Telegraph. The researchers examined 50, ... read more

London | 2 years ago
Firefox plots system to stop firms from tracking you online
London, Dec 1 - The makers of web-browser Firefox are working on a system which will allow internet users to stop themselves from being tracked online.Mozilla wants to build a mechanism which will allow people to opt out of companies secretly monitoring which websites they visit, currently a common practice.Internet giants like Google and Facebook use such information to sell targeted adverts and ... read more

Washington | 2 years ago
Indian e-voting researcher wins US award
Washington, Oct 22 - Hari Prasad Vemuru, a jailed Indian e-voting researcher, is one of the four winners of the 2010 Pioneer Awards of San Francisco headquartered Electronic Frontier Foundation -, a leading civil liberties group.The three other winners are transparency activist Steven Aftergood; public domain scholar James Boyle; and legal blogger Pamela Jones and the website Groklaw.Vemuru, who w ... read more

London | 2 years ago
Rise of Google Chrome threatens Internet Explorer, Mozilla
London, Oct 10 - Web browser Google Chrome, which emerged in mid-2008, has hit Internet Explorer hard and stalled the rise of Mozilla Firefox.Internet Explorer now accounts for less than 50 percent of worldwide web browser usage, a fall from its peak of 88 percent in 2003. The fall makes the latest version, Internet Explorer 9, all the more important for the company. The rise of Chrome has also af ... read more

New Delhi | 2 years ago
Delhi Traffic Police launches web portal
New Delhi, Oct 4 - Delhi Traffic Police Monday launched a website for the convenience of commuters in the national capital to facilitate traffic movement during the Commonwealth Games.The traffic police in the past used a similar technology -- social networking to connect with people and work together in ensuring greater safety on Delhi's roads. It launched its Facebook account in May 2010, which ... read more