Google challenges court over US data requests

Times Of India - Wednesday 19th June, 2013

Google asked US Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court to allow it to publish numbers of national security requests it receives separately from criminal ...

Laptops tablets without BIS mark face India ban

Times Of India - Wednesday 19th June, 2013

BIS safety standards. While initially the deadline was set for April 3, it was extended by three months to July 3 at the request of industry body Manufacturers Association for Information Technology. But even this deadline is not likely to be met. Manufacturers complain that the implementation process is too slow and that there is no way that all the applications and test results will be cleared ...

Facebooks active advertisers touch 1 million mark

Times Of India - Wednesday 19th June, 2013

Facebook said it now has 1 million active advertisers globally who used the platform in the last 28 days, a milestone for the company that is seeking to revive its revenue growth. A vast majority of those advertisers are small business owners who have flocked to the world's No. 1 social network. Facebook executives are hoping to net even more small advertisers since 16 million local ...

Narayana Murthy recalls old hands to Infosys

Times Of India - Wednesday 19th June, 2013

Infosys fold several rainmakers who are now working with rival companies, people aware of the development said. Reclaiming the talented executives is one of the crucial steps that the new chairman is taking as he swiftly implements measures to try and put the shaky organisation on a firmer footing. Over the past two years, as Infosys struggled with leadership transition and implementation of a ...

More 8-inch Android tablets on the way says analyst

Cnet - Wednesday 19th June, 2013

(Credit: Samsung) Android tablets have largely been a 7- or 10-inch affair to date, but 8 inches could be the new sweet spot, according to NPD DisplaySearch. Dell and Lenovo are among ...

Rhode Island on track to make payment on 38 Studios bonds

West Australian - Wednesday 19th June, 2013

Reuters © Former MLB player Curt Schilling talks with a reporter at the Electronic Entertainment Expo, or E3, in Los Angeles, California June 9, 2011. REUTERS/David ...

Netflix to expand to Netherlands later this year

Miami Herald - Wednesday 19th June, 2013

LOS GATOS, Calif. -- Netflix is going Dutch.The online video giant says it will expand into the Netherlands, its 41st country, later this year.Subscribers will be able to stream Hollywood fare, local TV series and Netflix originals like "House of Cards" and "Arrested Development" on TVs, game consoles, computers and mobile devices. Netflix Inc. didn't offer details ...

A look at Netflixs international expansion

Miami Herald - Wednesday 19th June, 2013

Netflix Inc. got its start renting DVDs through the mail in the U.S. during the late 1990s and added Internet video streaming in 2007. It has been expanding globally with a streaming-only service. Here's a look at its international expansion so far.- Sept. 22, 2010: Service in Canada begins, first outside the U.S.- Sept. 5, 2011. Service in Latin America begins. - Jan. 9, 2012: Expands ...

US Oil Steady Below $99

CNBC - Tuesday 18th June, 2013

U.S. oil prices were steady below $99 on Wednesday as investors waited for the U.S. Federal Reserve to shed some light on whether it plans to taper its $85 billion stimulus program. The Fed's three quantitative easing schemes have been key in boosting prices of oil and other commodities. ...

Video mocks Samsungs design principles

Cnet - Tuesday 18th June, 2013

Remember that video last week, offering Apple's deeply held views about design? Well, here's one that suggests Samsung believes in, well, cloning. Among other ...

Apple could include LinkedIn for deep iOS 7 integration

Cnet - Tuesday 18th June, 2013

iOS 7 , it's looking like LinkedIn could also make it to the chosen circle. Developers have found code-based references to deep LinkedIn integration in the beta version of iOS 7, which was supplied by Apple, according ...

Kodak prepares $406 million offering as it eyes bankruptcy exit

West Australian - Tuesday 18th June, 2013

on Tuesday said it will seek court approval for a $406 million (259.7 million pounds) rights offering that could give creditors a big equity stake in the company after it emerges from Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection.Kodak said creditors agreed to backstop an offering that would let the Rochester, New York-based company issue 34 million common shares at $11.94 each, equal to about 85 percent of ...

Facebook experiences apparent outage

CNet - Tuesday 18th June, 2013

Downforeveryoneorjustme.com was giving visitors intermittent "down" answers this evening when they checked on Facebook's status. While the mobile version of Facebook was available to smartphone ...

Award-winning journalist Michael Hastings dies in car accident at 33

Fox News - Tuesday 18th June, 2013

Award-winning journalist and war correspondent Michael Hastings has died in a car accident in Los Angeles. Buzzfeed Editor-in-Chief Ben Smith says he learned from a family member that the 33-year-old died early Tuesday. Hastings wrote about politics for the popular news site and has written books about dealing with the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. Hastings won a Polk Award for magazine ...

MRI reveals kids with autism may find human voices irritating

Cnet - Tuesday 18th June, 2013

Using MRI to measure brain activity, researchers at Stanford find that kids with autism have a weaker connection between language and reward centers than kids without ...

Big investors look to log into Indian e-commerce

Times Of India - Tuesday 18th June, 2013

BANGALORE: A new set of marquee investors are debuting in India's burgeoning consumer internet market. Bulge bracket names such as Canadian Pension Plan Investment Board ( ...

Vodafone raises Kabel Deutschland offer after rival bid report

Reuters - Tuesday 18th June, 2013

The logo of Germany's biggest cable operator, Kabel Deutschland, is written on a door bell at the Kabel Deutschland playout center in Frankfurt February 25, ...

Dish steps down from Sprint merger to clear way for Clearwire

Cnet - Tuesday 18th June, 2013

After a months-long battle between Dish and SoftBank over Sprint, the satellite company abandons its $25.5 billion bid for the wireless carrier to focus on "completing the Clearwire tender ...

Candy Crush Saga creator appears sweet on an IPO

Cnet - Tuesday 18th June, 2013

The Wall Street Journal on Tuesday. Anonymous sources told the Journal that King, through its holding company Midasplayer International Holding Co., has talked to several banks including J.P. Morgan Chase, Credit Suisse Group AG, and Bank of America to carry out its initial public offering, or IPO, in the U.S. This means King wants to sell shares of its company to public investors. While ...

The necessity of regular use of the purge command in OS X

Cnet - Tuesday 18th June, 2013

When using your Mac, active programs, documents, and system resources will be loaded into memory (RAM), where they can be accessed quickly to run and perform computations. While active memory contents are maintained in memory, the system also keeps some recently used but inactive processes and data there in order to quickly revive them, if needed. These memory allotments should be managed ...

Dell special committee slams new Icahn plan as incomplete

Cnet - Tuesday 18th June, 2013

Committee says activist investor's latest proposal lacks adequate financing and a remedy for the company and its shareholders if his proposal were to ...

Video shows what looks like iOS 7 running on an iPad

Cnet - Tuesday 18th June, 2013

iOS 7 , but photos, videos, and reports are popping up left and right about what the new operating system will look like on the tablet. A new iPad iOS ...