Government asks RIM to provide tools for monitoring mail service
Submitted by Faarooq Mehmood on Mon, 09/06/2010 - 08:53
The Indian government has asked Research In Motion (RIM), the makers of popular Blackberry smartphone devices, to provide tools for monitoring its enterprise mailing service.
Stephen Hawking says God did not create the universe
Submitted by Faarooq Mehmood on Sat, 09/04/2010 - 11:44
British theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking has said in his new book ‘The Grand Design’ that God did not create the universe and it created itself as the "Big Bang" was an inevitable consequence of the laws of physics.
Apple introduces music-focused social network for iTunes, Ping
Submitted by Faarooq Mehmood on Sat, 09/04/2010 - 11:42
Tech giant, Apple has introduced its new music-focused social network for iTunes service called ‘Ping’ on September 1.
Ping is completely integrated with iTunes and cannot be used out side. The developers can not design clients for it and not apps can be added which makes its safer. The ping comes after similar services like Microsoft's Zune, iLike, MySpace Music, MOG and Rdio.
Google introduces Doodle to mark buckyball's 25th anniversary
Submitted by Faarooq Mehmood on Sat, 09/04/2010 - 11:40
Internet giant, Google has introduced an interactive Google Doodle on its homepage to mark the 25th anniversary of the carbon molecule structure, buckyball
The official log of the company is replaced by an interactive animated buckyball doodle for the day. A buckyball or fullerene is fully composed of carbon atoms and was discovered in 1985 and was named after buckminsterfullerene.
Google to settle lawsuit over Buzz by paying $8.5 million
Submitted by Faarooq Mehmood on Sat, 09/04/2010 - 11:38
Internet giant, Google has agreed to pay an amount of $8.5 million to settle a class-action lawsuit filed over its social networking site ‘Google Buzz’ which made users' Gmail contacts public mostly without their knowledge.
The settlement was filed on Friday in federal court in San Jose, California and is subject to judge’s approval. The fee is to cover attorney fees and will be used for funding groups focused on Internet privacy.
Apple unlikely to include Flash on iPads, iPhones soon
Submitted by Faarooq Mehmood on Sat, 09/04/2010 - 11:36
Apple customers are unlikely to see their devices such as iPad and iPhone support the Flash player from Adobe soon as Apple blames the product for causing system crashes and being buggy.
Govt make attempts to cap cancer drugs prices
Submitted by Kanika Mehta on Sat, 09/04/2010 - 11:23
For giving cancer treatment at a discount, the government is in talks with drug makers for sourcing medicines. A senior government official informed that these medicines will be sold at government’s low-cost pharmacy chain Jan Aushadhi stores.
At 44Jan Aushadhi stores about 230 unbranded generic medicines are sold and this was launched in 2008 across state-owned hospitals and health centres.
