Social Networking sites won’t be censored in India

The telecom secretary, Mr. R. Chandrashekar said on Thursday that India won’t censure social networking sites like Facebook & Twitter but they will have to follow the rules of the land. “We don’t believe in censorship of any kind. All over the world, every company has to operate in accordance with the law. Any company [...]

Website Reveals German New-Nazis

A hackers group has attacked new-nazi groups in Germany, crippling about 15 websites and exposing the hundreds of extreme right wing supporters. The hackers affiliated with the “hacktivist” group Anonymous have opened a “Nazi-Leaks” website listing the names and personal details of people who are account customers at far-right shops as well as contributors to [...]

FaceBook users wary of new Timeline

Timeline is the story of Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg had said when he unveiled the new Timeline feature sometime back. The Facebook timeline is visually attractive, feel many and the cover photo allows them to customize their profiles with an impressive image. Since the Internet never forgets anything, this new feature too enables the users [...]

ICICI bank logs into Facebook soon

The country’s largest private sector lender ICICI Bank will soon join the social media platform Facebook, where it plans to allow its customers to access their bank accounts, among other services. “ICICI Bank will soon be present on the Facebook. The ICICI Bank page will include a ‘Your bank account’ app through which you can [...]

Man kills himself after girl unfriends him on Facebook – The Times of India

A 21-year-old Briton hanged himself after a girl removed him as a “friend” on social network Facebook. Simon Foxley from Hyde, Gloucestershire, became interested in the girl after meeting her on the website. But when he told her of his romantic feelings, she “unfriended” him from her list, said the Daily Mail. Foxley tried to [...]

Where do visitors to a site come from? – Dexter Figg

Setting up a website and publishing it are two different ball games. Every business needs a website to tap the extent of the Internet’s reach and to have a web presence to keep abreast, if not get ahead of, the competition. Although setting up a site is easy, getting ‘relevant’ visitors to the site involves [...]

Hackers steal US security firm data

Hackers on Sunday claimed to have stolen 200GB of emails & credit card data from United States security think tank stratfor, promising a week-long Christmas-insspired assault on a long list of targets. Members of the loose hacking movement known as ‘Anonymous’ posted a link on Twitter to what it said was stratfor’s secret client list [...]

Facebook to Improve Transparency

Facebook has agreed to make several changes to its services to improve transparency and better protect personal data of its millions of users outside the US, following an in-depth audit of its international headquarters that was released Thursday(December, 22, 2011).