Paul Ceglia, who claims a 2003 contract with Mark Zuckerberg made him a partner in Facebook Inc, said the company&rsquo;s lawyers committed an &ldquo;egregious and massive violation&rdquo; of his privacy by publishing his e-mail passwords.

Ceglia: Facebook lawyers disclosed e-mail passwords in court filing

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In early 2010, Nirmala Godhwani, practitioner of classical Indian music for over 40 years, was diagnosed with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). Also referred to as Lou Gehrig's disease in North America, after the famous New York Yankees baseball player who was diagnosed with the disease in 1939, ALS is a progressive, fatal, neurodegenerative disease. ALS patients typically die due of pneumonia in a few years.

App that lends voice to text

IMImobile launches My SMS app in 8 Indian languages.

A new SMS service that breaks the language barrier

Zensar Technologies, a business process company announced that its infrastructure management services arm is seeing a surge with the creation of a compelling dual shore services line in collaboration with Akibia--support and IT services provider to data centers of network and security infrastructure organisations.

Zensar, Akibia launch global IM services

Vodafone is partnering social networking site Facebook to launch a 'Facebook' phone. This would give users one-click access to the site.

'Facebook phone' for Vodafone users

Infosys has been hobbled by leadership issues, a dearth of bold decision-making and dissatisfied customers. It needs to fix these to rise back to the top.

A brave new world for Infosys

Starting next week, sales executives across 4000 Vodafone mini-stores in tier 2 and 3 towns will be hard selling its co-branded Facebook phone (officially launched yesterday), which costs Rs 4,950 and comes with free unlimited access for a year to the social networking site. The company is relying on Vodafone Blue, a device that will be manufactured by Alcatel, to find a consumer following in non-metros.

Vodafone Blue to woo data users with Facebook phone

Microsoft Corp, the largest software maker, is adding features to its internet display advertising products to keep from losing customers to Google Inc and Facebook Inc in the $12.3-billion US market.

Microsoft adds display ad tools to rival Google

Last weekend was hectic for the 95-odd participants who gathered at the &lsquo;Start-up Weekend&rsquo; here. Techie youngsters, guided by various mentors, formed teams and developed mobile or web-based applications to solve specific problems or create new experiences for users.

Start-ups convert innovative ideas into applications

In mid-August, Jason Rule learned some surprising news about the coffee shop he owns and operates in Hays&mdash;the place had closed for good.

Shops' signs say open for biz, Google terms them 'closed'

The country&rsquo;s largest private telecom player, Bharti Airtel, today hinted that mobile tariffs may increase further due to the rising operating costs.

Mobile tariffs likely to go up further, says Sunil Mittal

Hinduja Global Solutions (HGS), the business process outsourcing (BPO) arm of the Hinduja Group, made headlines last month by acquiring two companies in two weeks. It now plans to follow a two-pronged strategy &mdash; look for acquisition targets which will not only give them domain capability but also entry into newer geographies. The company believes that as opposed to the general view that Indian BPOs are taking away jobs from the US, it is, in fact, creating jobs there.

Q&A: Partha Desarkar, Hinduja Global Solutions

Steve Jobs, co-founder, visionary and CEO of Apple, whose creations much of the word craves, left centre stage in August this year. He is only 56. His 142-word resignation letter was as minimalist as the design of Apple products. It read: &ldquo;I have always said if there ever came a day when I could no longer meet my duties and expectations as Apple&rsquo;s CEO, I would be the first to let you know. Unfortunately, that day has come.

Ajit Balakrishnan: Steve Jobs: the CEO as auteur

India&rsquo;s leading gaming company hasn&rsquo;t achieved the promise that it once had.

Indiagames' moment of reckoning

Groupon is considering a delay to its long-awaited initial public offering amid turmoil in the stock market.

Groupon may delay IPO on stock market turbulence

In a stern warning to telecom operators, Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) chairman J S Sarma on Wednesday said mobile operators could not increase rates at will and the regulator would have to &ldquo;intervene&rdquo; to protect the interest of consumers.

Trai warns telcos on call rates, may intervene

A small Canadian activist investor is calling on the board of Research in Motion to explore options to increase the company&rsquo;s share price, including a potential sale or spinoff of its patent portfolio.

Activist fund calls for breakup of BlackBerry maker

InMobi, an independent mobile advertising network provider, has raised about $200 million from SoftBank Corp, a Japan-based Internet company &mdash; one of the the largest investments in the mobile internet advertisement space.

Japan's SoftBank invests $200 mn in InMobi

In order to grab major portion of market share in small and medium business(SMBs) segment in Chandigarh, Dell India Private Ltd has enhanced its focus on SMBs. The company is rolling out custom-made product, 24 x 7 support, sales and service facility and also building tailor-made product to SMBs.

Dell to focus on SMBs in Chandigarh

International Business Machines (IBM) Corp has been hired to advise Huawei Technologies Co on branding strategy as the Chinese telecommunications gear supplier expands into tablet computers, smartphones and cloud computing.

Huawei ropes in IBM for branding strategy advice

Fraunhofer research scientists are optimising a technology that makes it possible to watch TV in 3D without technical aids such as 3D glasses. &ldquo;A breakthrough in 3D television would only come when you don't need glasses. Wearing them is just too uncomfortable and tiresome,&rdquo; says Frederik Zilly, of the Fraunhofer Institute for Telecommunications, Heinrich Hertz Institute (HHI), Berlin. Research scientists at HHI are now working with 12 partners in the MUSCADE project to develop such a technology.

Now, watch 3D TV without glasses

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