The boom in the number of mobileInternet devices and tablet computers in use will help quadruple Web traffic in the coming years, a study said Wednesday. The Cisco Visual Networking Index said global Internet traffic by 2016 will be 1.3 zettabytes. A zettabyte is one trillion gigabytes, or one sextillion bytes. That will be four […]
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New cyberweapon discovered; Iranian computers hit A massive data-slurping cyberweapon is circulating in the Middle East, a Russian Internet security firm reported Monday, saying that computers in Iran appear to have been particularly affected. The virus, dubbed “Flame,” is unprecedented both in terms of its size and complexity, Moscow-based Kaspersky Lab ZAO reported, saying it […]
Social network sites can predict links even between non-members Want to stay away from Facebook, so as to safeguard your privacy? That may not work according to a study first published in April by a group of German researchers and reported in the science journal IEEE Spectrum. According to the study, called ‘One Plus One […]
A top Russian anti-virus software firm said it had uncovered a new computer virus with unprecedented destructive potential which is being used as a “cyberweapon” against several countries. Kaspersky Lab, one of the world’s biggest producers of anti-virus software, said its experts discovered the virus — known as Flame — during an investigation prompted by […]
News : A Facebook phone: Ambitious leap or fatal mistake? At this point, the fact that Facebook is struggling with its mobile strategy is not really news. The company itself flagged the issue in its pre-IPO documents, saying advertising revenue is not keeping up with expectations, and its $1-billion Instagram purchase was widely seen as […]
Four students of electronics & communication and mechanical engineering of Lovely Professional University, Punjab, under the guidance of their mentors, have successfully designed a car that can be controlled from a mobile phone, sitting at any part of the world. The car is pliable on both the auto and manual modes and has safety provisions […]
Cloud computing: How tech giants like Google, Facebook, Amazon store the world‘s data n the evening of April 11, 2012, Mike Krieger, the co-founder of Instagram, gave a talk in San Francisco. What he must have known, though his audience didn’t, was that in less than 24 hours, Mark Zuckerberg would announce that he was […]
News : It’s every tech company’s nightmare: Amid much hoopla, it rolls out a new product, but the thing doesn’t work as promised. The critics are damning and dwindling customers are in revolt. What to do? I’ve been watching the fates of three products that stumbled at the starting gate. In two cases, the companies […]
News : Websites of reputed government and private organisations are under threat from hackers, the Computer Emergency Response Team India (CERT-In) has said, warning users to be extra cautious while using the internet. “It is observed that some hacker groups are launching distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks on websites of government and private […]