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Hackers get into important Saudi websites

Sun, 19 May 2013 10:36:20 -0400

The Saudi Arabia state news agency has reported a coordinated attack on the country's government websites. Several government websites in Saudi Arabia came under heavy cyber attacks last week, shutting them down for a short time. The attacks have been traced to IP addresses from a number of countries. Saudi investigators found the attacks had been launched from hundreds of Internet ...

Hackers take on Financial Times web site

Sun, 19 May 2013 10:37:49 -0400

Britain's Financial Times was hacked last week by a mysterious group calling itself the Syrian Electronic Army. The newspaper's technology blog was hacked to display a slogan saying: "Hacked by the Syrian Electronic Army." Several Twitter feeds run by the Financial Times were also plastered with similar slogans. The FT later said its blogs and social media accounts had been compromised ...

Infosys visa costs jump 50 in FY 13

Mon, 20 May 2013 03:48:10 -0400

MUMBAI Stricter norms and higher rejection rate of work permits have pushed up the visa-related cost of country's second largest software services company, Infosys by more than 50% to Rs 308 crore in 2012-13 fiscal. According to Infosys' Annual Report 2012-13 , the company's overseas travel expenses included visa charges of Rs 308 crore for year 2012-13. Compared to visa charges of ...

Why days of lower phone tariff may be over

Mon, 20 May 2013 03:48:09 -0400

NEW DELHI: Indian mobile telephone companies have come a long way and no longer perceive lowering prices and increasing subscribers as tools for survival. To ensure their sustenance, telecom players in India are slowly hiking call rates and doing away with promotional offers. "The reason behind increasing call rates is that none of the players has a serious incentive to lower prices. The ...

Xbox Next What to expect at Tuesdays Xbox Reveal event

Mon, 20 May 2013 03:36:44 -0400

(Credit: Microsoft) Much has changed in the video game landscape since Microsoft unveiled the Xbox 360 in 2005. Back then, Microsoft was a clear underdog, hoping to cut into the leads held by rival consoles from Nintendo and Sony. ...

CTIA 2013 preview Spring show quietly fades away

Mon, 20 May 2013 03:36:43 -0400

(Credit: Roger Cheng/CNET) LAS VEGAS -- When Ashton Kutcher and Jennifer Lopez are the biggest draws for a technology show, there's a problem. The CTIA Wireless trade group's spring show officially kicks off for the last time on Tuesday. It marks an unceremonious end to the conference, which next year will merge with its sister show in the fall to better align itself with the ...

Your phone bill may soon go up

Mon, 20 May 2013 02:54:30 -0400

ARPU (average revenue per user) might not be significant. But average revenue per minute will be impacted and it will go up, he added. "It is too early to say whether ARPU will actually go up or go down, but the average revenue per minute will definitely increase. It will take atleast another quarter or so to see whether it is impacting an operator's revenue. Some of the operators have ...

Changing face of Silicon Valley

Mon, 20 May 2013 02:54:29 -0400

Tesla Motors , making cutting-edge cars, to Solaria, making solar panels, manufacturers are drawn to Fremont by incentives including a five-year waiver on business taxes, an expedited regulatory process, proximity to Silicon Valley firms and a skilled labor force. Those were key factors for Sanjiv Malhotra, president of Fremont-based fuel cell maker Oorja Protonics, which looked at several US ...

Soon your phone will be ‘beamed’ onto your palm

Mon, 20 May 2013 02:54:28 -0400

new technology that puts the mobile phone on the palm of your hand -- literally. Using a special camera that combines high-speed vision and two rotational ...

The changing face of mobile photography

Mon, 20 May 2013 02:43:04 -0400

(Credit: Craig Swatton/iStockphoto) In just a few short years, smartphone photography has reached critical mass. It used to be the case that a camera module on a phone was a curious anomaly rather than the rule, but now you would be hard pressed to find a mobile device without a lens on it somewhere. To demonstrate just how much mobile photography has permeated contemporary society, take a ...

Infosys to appeal against Rs 577 crore tax demand

Mon, 20 May 2013 02:02:38 -0400

BANGALORE: Infosys, country's No. 2 software services exporter, said it would challenge a Rs 577 crore ($105.3 million) income tax demand raised by income tax department earlier this month. The demand relates to certain tax benefits on income from software development done overseas at the clients' location and revenue from special economic zones in ...

Infosys to challenge latest tax demand of $105.3 million

Mon, 20 May 2013 01:09:04 -0400

View Photo Reuters/Reuters - An Infosys logo is pictured on one of the company's office buildings at their IT campus at Electronics City in Bangalore, February 28, 2012. Picture taken on February 28, 2012. ...

Oil Holds Above $96 on US Economic Data

Sun, 19 May 2013 23:29:36 -0400

U.S. crude futures were steady in early Asian trading on Monday, holding above $96 a barrel after rallying last week on positive economic data in top oil consumer the United States. U.S. consumer sentiment in early May rose more than economists had expected, with more Americans giving favorable views about their financial and economic prospects, particularly among upper-income ...

Google Nexus 4 review A killer smartphone

Sun, 19 May 2013 23:26:36 -0400

Google Nexus 4 has finally made its way to India. Though it is being sold by LG and remains unavailable on Google Play Store as of now, we are glad that the much-awaited flagship Nexus smartphone of Google is finally retailing in the domestic market. It is widely known that Nexus 4 has top-notch hardware (at least as per last year's standards, when it was launched) and is priced much more ...

Yahoo to buy blog-maker Tumblr for $1.1 billion report

Sun, 19 May 2013 22:26:23 -0400

New York: The board of Yahoo! has agreed to a deal to purchase the popular blogging platform Tumblr for $1.1 billion, the Wall Street Journal reported Sunday.Yahoo! did not immediately return AFP's calls for confirmation, but CEO Marissa Mayer has scheduled a news conference in New York Monday at which the company said it will unveil "something special."Reports last week said ...

2 men arrested in killing of teen over iPad in Las Vegas

Sun, 19 May 2013 22:20:51 -0400

According to investigators, Marcos Arenas, 15, was walking down a street with an iPad on Thursday when a passenger got out of a vehicle and tried to steal the device from ...

Chinese Hackers Resume Attacks on U.S. Targets

Sun, 19 May 2013 21:45:57 -0400

The headquarters of Unit 61398, center, in Shanghai. The unit of the People's Liberation Army is believed to have resumed its attacks on American companies and government ...

Computer visionary says he knows who invented Bitcoin

Sun, 19 May 2013 19:52:58 -0400

baffled even core developers for the virtual currency. Who is Satoshi Nakamoto, the pseudonym for the person or group of people who came up with the original idea for the electronic cash system in 2008? After contributing thousands of lines of code and hundreds of posts on Bitcoin, Nakamoto sent a note to a developer in April 2011 saying that he had "moved on to other things." Later ...

Report Yahoo board approves deal to buy Tumblr for $1.1bn

Sun, 19 May 2013 18:22:49 -0400

Rumours that Yahoo might be in discussions to buy Tumblr emerged last week, and on Friday Yahoo called for a mystery press event to be held in New York City on Monday afternoon. Tumblr's headquarters are in ...

Adobe unplugs Creative Cloud sync tool during transition

Sun, 19 May 2013 17:20:05 -0400

The company apologized after an Instability forced it to take the preview version of a synchronization tool offline earlier than expected. The service syncs files on mobile devices, the Web, and ...

Yahoos board approves $1.1 billion Tumblr acquisition WSJ

Sun, 19 May 2013 16:54:20 -0400

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Yahoo Inc's board has approved a deal to buy blogging and social networking site Tumblr for $1.1 billion in cash, the Wall Street Journal cited people familiar with the matter as saying on Sunday.Such an acquisition would be Marissa Mayer's largest deal since taking the helm of the once-iconic Internet company in July 2012. Yahoo is keen on fast-growing Tumblr ...

Disruptions Disruptions Robots as Home Health Care Aides for the Elderly

Sun, 19 May 2013 16:46:44 -0400

Robot & Frank ," which takes place in the near future, Frank, an elderly man who lives alone, is arguing with his son about going to a medical center for Alzheimer's treatment when the son interrupts him. "I brought you something," he says to Frank. Then the son pulls a large, white humanoid robot from the trunk of his car. Frank watches in disbelief. "You have got ...

Google Americas third political party

Sun, 19 May 2013 14:47:25 -0400

(Credit: James Martin/CNET) Congress is a dog that won't go for a walk. We can tug at its leash as hard as we want, but it sits in the middle of the sidewalk, barking a defiant "no." It's not a purposeful no. It's just a refusal for the sake of it, couched in principle. Then along comes America's most ambitious politician. No, it's not Paul Ryan or ...

Twitter will damn your soul Saudi cleric says

Sun, 19 May 2013 13:55:00 -0400

(Credit: Twitter/YouTube Screenshot by Chris Matyszczyk/CNET) Life becomes more meaningful when someone from a long way away reflects your own thoughts. It makes you feel less alone, less forlorn on your island of one. I was, therefore, lifted to heights previously unimagined on hearing that the head of Saudi Arabia's religious police has declared that Twitter is an appalling waste ...

Rate your AV receivers autosetup program

Sun, 19 May 2013 11:23:05 -0400

I've had a run of bad luck with some of the latest AV receivers' autosetup programs; they set the subwoofer volume way too loud, or misidentified the "sizes" of the speakers (one receiver tagged our ...

A look back at NASAs planet-pinpointing space scope

Sun, 19 May 2013 03:47:01 -0400

The space agency says the Kepler space telescope is having equipment issues. With the mission threatened, we look back at Kepler's mind-expanding search for Earth-like ...

Colm Piercys Digiweb is now worth €120m-plus after Viatel merger deal

Sun, 19 May 2013 00:40:38 -0400

Digiweb will have revenues of over EUR60m this year following the deal, with financiers now estimating the broadband and telecoms firm to be worth nearly EUR120m. Entrepreneur of the Year Piercy will remain as the majority shareholder of digiweb following the deal which has seen Morgan Stanley emerge as the second largest shareholder in the firm. The Wall Street giant is understood to have ...

SOCIAL NETWORKS FOR BUSINESS Time to hang out ON google +

Sun, 19 May 2013 00:40:37 -0400

Google Plus account or page, you should use this to your advantage to ensure you continue to post and interact regularly as more users come online.The key updates are as follows:* You can now do live, free video calls with up to 10 friends at once in "hangout" and record them.* There is a new auto upload of photos which allows you to store all your photos online for free.* They've ...

Verizon Galaxy S4 starts shipping early

Sat, 18 May 2013 23:33:14 -0400

Samsung plans a hard-core Galaxy S4, says report While I've yet to see video footage, I can only assume that many happy dances have followed receipt of these emails. The Galaxy S4 on other carriers, ...

Review Blood Dragon a blast of pure 80s mayhem

Sat, 18 May 2013 22:51:51 -0400

Ubisoft created for last year's "Far Cry 3." You don't need that game to play "Blood Dragon." Instead, your $15 buys you a scaled-down version of "FC3" with a smaller map, fewer weapons and a streamlined leveling-up system. It takes just six hours or so to play through, which isn't necessarily a bad thing if you felt "FC3" dragged on too ...

Exploring the artsy side of 3D printing

Sat, 18 May 2013 22:51:50 -0400

3D printing technology is a game changer in the arts and crafts world. "It really takes the lid off of what's possible," says Andrej Suskavcevic, president and CEO of the Craft and Hobby Association, in Elmwood Park, New Jersey. "It seems to me it'll provide a really good bridge between technology and hands-on crafting." Randy Sarafan, technology editor at ...

Review Toshibas MacBook rival Kirabook

Sat, 18 May 2013 22:51:49 -0400

stunning option to its MacBooks: screens with ultra-high resolution. These "Retina" displays reveal four times as much detail as any Windows laptop screen ... until now. Toshiba just released a new laptop line with a Retina-level display. Does this mean Windows users can let go of MacBook envy? Sort of. The jump in resolution with ...