Helsinki: A data leak has been uncovered in Finland, in which personal details of around 16,000 people were uploaded onto a file-sharing website. This act is the largest ever of its kind in Finland. The data leak is being looked into by the Finnish National Bureau of Investigation. Anonymous Finland…
New York: Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg says he received some words of wisdom from Apple’s late co-founder Steve Jobs who told the young Silicon Valley billionaire to focus on building the right team for a “high quality” company. Zuckerberg, appearing in an interview with Charlie Rose with his Chief Operating…
New York: Internet giant Google Inc has decided to extend its social networking service, Google Plus, for businesses and brands also, in addition to the individual users being tapped till now. With its latest initiative, the US-based firm is looking to bring large global brands, as also local businesses, on…
Toronto: Research In Motion won’t upgrade the software for its much-maligned PlayBook tablet computer until February, months behind schedule, and the new version still won’t feature the popular BlackBerry Messenger application. Shares of RIM dropped more than 6 percent as investors digested the latest in a string of disappointments as…
Seoul: Samsung Electronics Co surpassed Apple Inc as the world’s top smartphone maker with more than 40 percent shipment growth, and forecast strong sales in the fourth quarter, as it aims to consolidate its lead against rivals. Samsung, which had little traction in the booming smartphone market until early last…
San Francisco: Hewlett-Packard (HP) announced that it will keep its personal systems group (PSG) and continue to sell personal computers. “HP objectively evaluated the strategic, financial and operational impact of spinning off PSG. It’s clear after our analysis that keeping PSG within HP is right for customers and partners, right…
London: A bathroom where everything is perfect – lighting, water temperature – plus electronic walls and shower curtains showing TV, internet or social networking sites. It seems amusing but this is what bathrooms will be like in ten years, at least according to a team of designers, psychologists and engineers.…
Beijing: Citizens’ identity cards in China will now feature their fingerprints to help identify people faster and more accurately – and make it difficult to create fakes. China amended its Resident Identity Card Law in a bid to better protect personal information of its citizens. Older identity cards do not…
Washington: Peering through thick walls is no longer science fiction but stark reality, thanks to a new cutting edge technology developed by scientists. MIT’s Lincoln Lab researchers have built a system that can see through walls from some distance away, giving an instantaneous picture of the activity on the other…
New York: Law firms in the United States and Canada are exploring possible consumer lawsuits against Research In Motion Ltd for last week’s BlackBerry outages, which for three days crippled email and messaging for tens of millions of users around the world. Consumer lawyers say they are looking at whether…
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