Oracle plans to buy chipmakers
NEW YORK: Oracle Corp, building on a run of more than 65 acquisitions during the past five years, is looking…
Togetherville: ‘Facebook’ for kids
BANGALORE: Yogita Sharma, 12, first heard about Facebook when she was ten years old, and her friends at school thought…
Twitter bug a month old!
The worm that wrecked havoc on Twitter website apparently got accidentally re-introduced. As Twitter wrote in its blog post, "We…
Google’s Chief defends his privacy comment — or joke
New York: Eric E. Schmidt, Google's chief executive, has faced some pretty tough critics in the past, defending the companies…
Germans want Google regulated
BERLIN: German officials met internet firms on Monday to try to reconcile Germany's strict data protection rules with programmes like…
Belgian VC Gimv drops 4.9 million euros on Vente-Privée competitor Private Outlet
After investing some 15 million euros in France-based OneDirect a few weeks ago, Belgian VC fund Gimv has just announced…
Gmail gets security code
SAN FRANCISCO: Google is making it tougher for computer hackers and other imposters to break into e-mail accounts and other…
Meet Microsoft Xbox 360 Slim
NEW DELHI: There was a time when gamers used to drool over new platform announcements, and understandably so, as such…
Cap on H-1B visas the stupidest thing: Google CEO
SAN FRANSISCO: Earlier this week at the Google Zeitgeist conference, the company's chairman and CEO Eric Schmidt said there was…
What makes Apple iPad a hot buy
NEW YORK: At first glance, the iPad looked like a heavy, overgrown iPod Touch. After just a few months of…
