Facebook’s own video service is moving fast to be at par with YouTube in terms of video sharing numbers and could soon overtake YouTube to become the number one video sharing website,…
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Google ramps up anti-piracy efforts; updates algorithm to keep pirate sites at bay
Google’s anti-piracy efforts will see major tweaks made to its search engine this week to ensure ‘notorious’ piracy sites are out of the search results when people search for music, films and…
UK proposes 24 months custodial sentence for online trolls
In an attempt to keep a check on online trolling the UK government has quadrupled the maximum sentence for online abuse convicts. As per the new law, people found guilty of Internet…
UK police to target sexual child abuse with new image database
The UK Police force is compiling a national database of child abuse images seized from paedophiles and illegal content trading sites to identify and keep a record of both sexual abuse victims…
Twitpic closing. This time for good!
Twitpic’s acquisition talks haven’t gone as planned and the photo sharing site is finally going to close down for good on October 25, the site has announced. “It’s with a heavy heart…
Tweets from unknowns in your timeline? You’re not alone!
Twitter has decided to make sure that you get to read tweets from unknowns on the micro-blogging land based on your interest or activities by posting tweets on users’ timelines from those…
Facebook doubles reward to $1,000 under its “bounty program”
Facebook has recently concluded a comprehensive security run on its ad code and with a view to strengthening its security features and has also announced its decision to double the reward for…
Google testing new medical video chat service
Google is reportedly testing a new service that will allow users to consult doctors via video chat when searching for health conditions. The new service, which is currently being tested with a…
Amazon is Google’s biggest threat says Eric Schmidt
Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt is of the opinion that e-commerce giant Amazon is Google’s biggest competition as a search engine. Speaking in Berlin, Schmidt, who currently serves as chairman of Google’s…
Facebook full of lonely folks finds study
Contrary to belief that Facebook makes people feel isolated, a new study has claimed that the feeling of loneliness is bringing more and more people to Facebook in search of friends. Researchers…
One-third of UK’s 18,304 ‘right to be forgotten’ requests approved: Google
Google has received over 145,000 ‘right to be forgotten’ requests from Europe since the official request process was rolled out on May 29. The search engine giant in its latest internet transparency…
EFF rolls out IFightSurveillance.org to fight online surveillance
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has launched IFightSurveillance.org, a new website that aims to fight online surveillance. The new website IFightSurveillance.org has been designed to educate people about how mass surveillance takes…
Microsoft pledges to protect student information
While there are a lot of concerns about tech giants serving the field of education that opens up several possibilities for misuse of students’ personal information, Microsoft has stepped up to convince…
McKinsey: 4.4 billion people worldwide are still offline
McKinsey Report: America’s disconnected tend to be literate, low-income women living in rural areas, where Internet access is either difficult or expensive to come by. In fact, America’s Internet divide can be seen primarily as a class divide: 80 percent of the country’s offline population falls below the poverty line, the highest proportion in any other country except Mexico.
Microsoft Bing now lets users access full lyrics of songs
Microsoft has just added a new feature to its search engine Bing enabling users to see full lyrics of their favourite songs on the search results page. Previously, any query regarding a…