February 8, 2010 - 11:52 am
Tags: India, news, paypal
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Popular online payment service PayPal shocked several Indians and rest of the world by suspending payment transactions to and from India for more than a week. Anuj Nayar, spokesman from communications team for PayPal, posted on the official PayPal blog, that personal payments to and from India and the transfers to local banks in India [...]
January 25, 2010 - 12:25 pm
Tags: Earthquake, Haiti, news
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« Page 1 Page 2 3. View All » When nature kicks us, none can survive. A major Earthquake has vanished everything. Please help all the haiti people. They really need help and support from all over the world. Let’s forget idiotic border between all the nations & try to make smile on their tearful [...]
January 13, 2010 - 1:48 pm
Tags: news, World News
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Internet giant Google has said it may end its operations in China following a “sophisticated and targeted” cyber attack originating from the country. It did not accuse Beijing directly, but said it was no longer willing to censor its Chinese search engine – google.cn. This could result in closing the site, and its Chinese offices, [...]
January 11, 2010 - 2:31 pm
Tags: news, World News
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A ban on Microsoft selling certain versions of its flagship products Word and Office has begun. The software firm was made to change elements of the software by US courts after a patent dispute with Canadian firm i4i. Microsoft said that it had complied with the court’s ruling and would now offer “revised software” in [...]
January 7, 2010 - 3:43 am
Tags: health, mobile, news
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After all the concern over possible damage to health from using mobile phones, scientists have found a potential benefit from radiation. Their work has been carried out on mice, but it suggests mobiles might protect against Alzheimer’s. Florida scientists found that phone radiation actually protected the memories of mice programmed to get Alzheimer’s disease. They [...]
December 29, 2009 - 1:45 am
Tags: news, UK, World News
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FREEZING conditions were set to return to the region today as a new blast of icy weather threatened to bring what forecasters described as “significant snowfall” to some parts of Britain.Commuters were expected to face fresh trouble on the roads and railways on the first day back after the Christmas break, with the worst of [...]
December 28, 2009 - 1:55 am
Tags: Amazon, news
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An attack directed at the DNS provider for some of the Internet’s larger e-commerce companies — including Amazon, Wal-Mart, and Expedia — took several Internet shopping sites offline Wednesday evening, two days before Christmas. Neustar, the company that provides DNS services under the UltraDNS brand name, confirmed an attack took place Wednesday afternoon, taking out [...]
December 27, 2009 - 2:56 am
Tags: books, google, news
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A Paris court has found Google guilty of copyright infringement in a ruling which could have ramifications for its plans to digitise the world’s books. The search giant must pay 300,000 euros (£266,000) in damages and interest to French publisher La Martiniere. It was one of many to take Google to court for digitising its [...]
December 24, 2009 - 1:25 pm
Tags: news
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The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has asked for more information about Google’s plans to buy Admob, a company specialising in ads for small screens. The search engine giant said last month that it hoped to buy the Silicon Valley start-up for $750m (£449m) in stocks. Google’s group product manager Paul Feng wrote in a blog [...]
December 14, 2009 - 5:58 am
Tags: google, news
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Google Living Stories provide a new, experimental way to consume news, developed by a partnership between Google, the New York Times, and the Washington Post. In Living Stories, you can read the same reporting and analysis that you expect from the Times and the Post, delivered on a highly interactive platform. Each living story resides [...]