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| | Cybercriminals target smartphones | 19-NOV-09 |
| | It is common knowledge that viruses, worms and malware attack computer systems but what is novel is that they also enter your smartphones. The prime reason being that almost everything we access on a computer can be accessed on a smartphone. | |
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| | Your SMS is not secure, but help is at hand | 19-NOV-09 |
| | Indians like using short message service (SMS). On an average, a whopping 40 billion text messages are either received or sent by the 400 million-odd mobile phone users in the country, as per the recent data by the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI). | |
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| | Mobile apps prove a boon for Indian developers | 19-NOV-09 |
| | Shanmukh Raj, a 29-year-old developer who works for an Udipi (Karnataka)-based application development company called Robosoft, headed a four-member team which recently developed a popular online game called Chess Lite. “It took my team four months to develop this game for the iPhone. | |
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| | Virtual classrooms go commercial | 12-NOV-09 |
| | Ramesh Thorat (not his real name) is at home. But sitting on his computer, he is intently watching and listening to a lecture on the internet. He has a broadband connection, a webcam and even a microphone to interact with the lecturer if he has any question. In fact, Thorat is one of the many engineering graduates from the Pune Institute of Computer Technology (PICT) who studies in a “virtual classroom” called “kPoint”. | |
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| | Making money from games people play | 12-NOV-09 |
| | Indian animation and gaming training institutes are gearing to scale up their businesses and open up new avenues for professionals who are passionate about animation and gaming technologies. | |
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| | Yahoo! sets eyes on India's UID project | 12-NOV-09 |
| | On her first visit to the country after taking over as CEO from Jerry Yang, Carol Bartz insists that her company has a lot of steam left in it despite what critics think. | |
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| | Auto firms increase online spends | 05-NOV-09 |
| | Auto companies in the country like Maruti, General Motors, Volkswagen, Honda, Mahindra and Bajaj have increased their online spends significantly. | |
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| | ZBOT Trojan creates havoc | 05-NOV-09 |
| | With e-banking attacks and threats to users’ bank accounts and passwords on the rise, cyber analysts have detected a Trojan associated with e-banking, which specifically targets small businesses. | |
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| | Windows 7 sales touch 3.5 per cent | 05-NOV-09 |
| | It’s been a fortnight since Windows 7 was officially launched worldwide. It now makes up more than 3.6 per cent of all PCs tracked by research firm Net Applications. | |
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| | Phishing study: Bunch of lies | 05-NOV-09 |
| | A team of researchers including professors of University of Brighton published a report in July 2009 titled “Crime online — Cybercrime and illegal innovation”. It was picked up by online news channels and quoted in news items to propagate lies about so-called cybercrimes in the business process outsourcing (BPO) industry of India. The report tries to present data from the annual reports of the Indian Computer Emergency Team, and Symantec in a way that suits its story, of India being a centre of cybercrimes and in general being a weak state. We want to set the record straight. | |
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| | Handset players jostle for market share | 05-NOV-09 |
| | There’s a mad scramble for mindshare in the Indian telecom handset market with about 30 handset makers battling it out in the estimated Rs 20,000 crore (annual) cellphone market. | |
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| | Airtel launches triple-play game | 29-OCT-09 |
| | India’s largest private sector telecom player Bharti Airtel has launched a triple-play arcade puzzle game Getris on all three services of Airtel — mobile, Internet and direct to home (DTH). | |
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| | Bollywood fans in the US can now watch free films | 29-OCT-09 |
| | Nearly 7 million South Asians and 3 million non-resident Indians (NRIs) in the US will get to watch Bollywood films free of cost thanks to Reliance Big Entertainment’s video-on-demand website — BigFlix.com and Hulu.com — an online video service — coming together to start this service. | |
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| | Microsoft to launch Windows 7 today | 22-OCT-09 |
| | Even as the software giant introduces its latest operating system, there are other options too. Software giant Microsoft will formally launch its much touted operating system (OS) — Windows 7 — in India today. The company is on a good wicket in the country, say analysts, with a nearly 90 per cent market share comprising XP (primarily) and Vista users. This leaves only a small window for other OSes like Apple’s Snow Leopard or open source Linux OS variants. However, if you are not planning to switch over to Windows 7 in a hurry, you may want to consider these options. | |
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| | Companies light up sales with Diwali games | 15-OCT-09 |
| | Indian gaming companies are all set to light up this Diwali season with plenty of online games. Some games (called edu-games) are even creating eco-awareness by showing how the festival of lights can be enjoyed without using “dangerous” fireworks, even as they further popularise the “mythological” story of Diwali. The games are accompanied with a kaleidoscope of colours and sounds. | |
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