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81% people don't want to be Facebook friends with boss

Those aged between 25 to 34 were the most comfortable with befriending their boss on the social networking site

Badminton set for line-call review system

A test set-up will be used at next month's Sudirman Cup in Malaysia before the new system goes live at the Indonesian Open in September

Now, reschedule your flights online

Cleartrip is the first online travel companies offering this facility

'Over 50% of mobile apps deployed will be hybrid by 2016'

The prediction is being made by research firm Gartner

Google marks India's first passenger train journey with doodle

In the doodle, the locomotive train replaces the first 'O' of the word Google

E-commerce aggregators gaining traction

These firms get 2-3% of the purchase amount as commission per transaction

Govt officials to meet ISPs soon on website blocking hitches

ISPs have expressed difficulties in blocking URLs or websites with secure-encrypted headers

Relax! Apps to de-stress you

Battle of the cheaper siblings

Meet the Nokia Lumia 920's cheaper version

Now, Twitter is music to your ears

The microblogging site introduces a music feature that would use the listening habits of users' friends and contacts and recommend music for them

LurnQ brings self-learning online

What sets it apart is that it doesn't create its own courses but collates other online courses to make it easier to choose

Top 10 tech acquisitions

Most of these acquisitions have helped the firms win greater deals

Google tool to enable what to do with emails when dead

Google has found a way by launching inactive account manager page that can be used as a "Digital Will"

'Alcohol use, anxiety may hook you on to Facebook'

Research found that students who reported higher levels of anxiousness and alcohol use appeared to be more emotionally connected with the social networking site

Monster India launches virtual career fair

Candidates to give interviews over web-camera

C-DAC releases three new products

The products have been released on the eve of 26th Foundation Day of C-DAC

Test-tube baby pioneer Robert Edwards dies aged 87

Edwards was awarded the Nobel prize for medicine in 2010, three decades after the birth of the world's first test-tube baby, Louise Brown, in 1978

Soon, replace your passwords with your thoughts

By measuring brain-waves with bio-sensor technology, researchers are able to replace passwords with "passthoughts"

Being too active on social media may damage your relationships

The theory suggests that there is a clear link between the number of media channels used to communicate, the frequency they are used and the strength of relationship ties

Internet grows to over 252 million domain names in 2012

6.1 million new domain names added in Q4 of CY12, says VeriSign Domain Name Industry brief