Information availability and business continuity services provider SunGard has announced its expansion in India by setting up two new workplace recovery facilities located in Thane and Noida.

SunGard sets up centres at Thane, Noida

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Companies have long used criminal background checks, credit reports and even searches on Google and LinkedIn to probe the previous lives of prospective employees. Now, some companies are requiring job candidates to also pass a social media background check.

Social media history is now a job hurdle

Bharti Airtel, the country&rsquo;s largest telecom operator, on Friday increased tariffs by 20 per cent for prepaid subscribers in six circles, including Delhi, Kerala and Gujarat.

Bharti signals end to rock-bottom rates

Search giant Google&rsquo;s social networking foray, Google+, is steadily gathering steam, owing primarily to users in India and the US. Within weeks of its launch, the site, which is still in its beta phase (one needs to be invited to join it), has seen nearly 20 million users signing up.

Google+ gathers steam 18% total users from India

New Companies Bill to make direct-to-home shopping sites accountabe to Registrar of Companies.

Registration of overseas online firms to be made mandatory

With over three million Indian users on Google+, the site is fast becoming the new rage with the social networking crowd. However, Beware! Security solutions provider, Kaspersky Lab has warned Internet users of targeted attacks on the social networking site.

Beware of Google+ security threats

Would you like your son to learn how to wield the willow like the Little Master? Or maybe, talk about trading tricks with Rakesh Jhunjhunwala over lunch? How about a mobile phone signed by M S Dhoni? A healthy bank balance and an internet connection is all that you need to fulfil your dreams.

Open your wallets for online bids

Between January 2008 and December 2010, 37 new captives were set up and 21 announced significant expansion, whereas 13 were divested.

MNC captive units back in favour

Chinese authorities shut two unauthorised Apple Inc stores in Kunming for operating without business licences, a newspaper run by the southwestern city&rsquo;s government reported.

Fake Apple stores get shutdown orders in China

It must be excruciating to design a new version of an already mature operating system.

Upgrading to Lion is embracing the iPad

Research In Motion Ltd, maker of the BlackBerry smartphone, plans to cut 2,000 jobs, or about a tenth of its workforce, as sales slow amid market share losses to Apple Inc&rsquo;s iPhone.

RIM to cut 2,000 jobs on BlackBerry share decline

Samsung Electronics Co, maker of the Galaxy mobile phone, may have surpassed Nokia Oyj and Apple Inc in smartphone sales for the first time on demand for devices that run on Android software, a research company said.

Sales of Samsung smartphones may surpass Apple's

Opera Software and UTV Indiagames plan to offer gaming content on Opera Mini browsers, which are optimised for surfing on cellphones. Starting this month, Opera Mini browsers will sport a UTV Indiagames icon that would allow users a one-click access to play games&mdash;from puzzles to action and strategy. Existing users, however, would have to upgrade their Opera Mini browsers.

Opera fine-tunes mobile entertainment

A spherical robot equipped with a camera may soon navigate underground the pipes of a nuclear reactor by propelling itself with an internal network of valves and pumps, according to a Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) release.

Egg robots for nuclear reactors

The prolonged viewing of mobile devices and other stereo 3D devices leads to visual discomfort, fatigue and even headaches. A Journal of Vision study says the reason behind this may be the strain on the eyes while focusing on the screen and simultaneously adjusting to the distance of the content.

Are smartphones taking a toll?

Renaissance architects demonstrated their understanding of geometry and physics when they built whispering galleries in cathedrals. These circular chambers were designed to amplify and direct sound waves so that, when standing on the right spot, a whisper could be heard from across the room. Scientists at the University of Pennsylvania applied the same principle to drastically cut emission lifetime&mdash;a key property of semiconductors&mdash;that can lead to new ultrafast photonic devices.

Reducing the emission lifetime of semiconductors

Bhopal-based AISECT Ltd, India&rsquo;s leading Information Technology education, training and services network, launched its first skill development centre in Punjab.

AISECT launches its first skill development centre in Punjab

New entrants were supposed to get a boost from key government initiatives that would help increase competition and drive prices down. Instead, they face possible extinction.

Telecom: Newcomers battle for survival

Connect, the leader in broadband business in Punjab, today announced their new business plans offering high bandwidth and huge data transfers like never before.

Connect launches business plans, gears up to start wireless broadband in Punjab

In the online world, one person's loss may well be another's gain. Scams on social networking sites like Facebook buttress this view. News of the tragic Norway events last week, and the untimely death of five-time Grammy award winner Amy Winehouse, who was found dead in London on July 23, are cases in point.

'Breaking news' is now a raging scam on Facebook

If not for a computer scientist&rsquo;s hobby of collecting old telegraph codebooks, a crucial chapter in modern cryptography might have been lost to history. Codebooks like this one from 1896 cut the cost of telegrams, which were charged by the word.

An encryption form dates back to telegraphs

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