When it comes to China, Facebook should consider itself forewarned. Cracking the world’s biggest internet population might seem an obvious ambition for the social networking giant as it trumpets its global growth before a $5 billion initial public offering, but the chances it will succeed look slim. Facebook said last week it was contemplating re-entering [...]
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15. What is the procedure to pay the fee for the examination? There are three options for the payment of fee-Pay i) by Cash in any branch of State Bank of India, ii) Pay by credit/debit Card and iii) Pay by Net Banking facility of SBI. An applicant who wants to pay the fee by [...]
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Google has received government requests for removal of 358 items from its services, including YouTube and Orkut, during the January-June period, according to a report by the internet search giant. As many as 255 item removal requests cited the government criticism as the reason, said the Google Transparency Report. The government had asked Google to remove 236 [...]
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Government jobs in India are sought after by people from all over the country and across various educational backgrounds. People are eager to join in government services and therefore they prepare themselves to fulfil the necessary criteria to become eligible for the said posts. If they are interested in the jobs under the domain of [...]
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That the recent tumult in theMiddle Eastput Al Jazeera, the largest news organisation focused on the region, in the crux of a social media storm is well-known. That Barack Obama leveraged the internet like no other during his 2008 election campaign too, is common knowledge. What is however unknown, is the fascinating [...]
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The new draft Telecom Policy, unveiled by Communications Minister Kapil Sibal, on October 10 set a target of 600 million high-speed internet connections by 2020. The new policy went to the extent of likening the broadband connectivity to basic necessities like health and education and proposes to work towards a ‘Right to Broadband’ for every [...]
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Urban development department of Gujarat issued a draft notification for amendment of Bombay Provincial Municipal Corporation (Registration of Electors) rules, 1994 to implement the e-voting system for civic elections scheduled in October. The new format of voting, for the first time India will be practiced in municipal corporation elections this year. -A voter would be [...]
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Google is to wind down its Google Labs initiative, which showcased some of the company’s experimental technologies, the internet giant announced on July 20. While we’ve learned a huge amount by launching very early prototypes in Labs, we believe that greater focus is crucial if we’re to make the most of the extraordinary opportunities ahead,” [...]
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We all use it, and have a hard time imagining life without it. Wireless Local Area Networks, better known as WLAN, make our lives easier, at least so far as internet surfing is concerned. But those networks are rarely pushed to the limits of their capacity. In theory it would be easy and beneficial to [...]
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If the internet was a global village, Facebook would be its marketplace. Almost everyone meets here and those who aren’t there yet look set to join. Once you get past all the status updates and links, pictures and videos, Facebook is, essentially, a comment posting and relaying machine. Novices need to be sure not to [...]
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In its latest report on the state of the internet, Freedom House puts India 14th on a list that ranks 37 countries on the basis of free and unrestricted access to the web. The list was topped by Estonia . According to the report, the internet is only “partly free” in India. It says that [...]
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Image via Wikipedia XBRL is a member of the family of languages based on XML, or Extensible Markup Language, which is a standard for the electronic exchange of data between businesses and on the internet. Under XML, identifying tags are applied to items of data so that they can be processed efficiently by computer software. [...]
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Image via Wikipedia Tired of getting inaccurate and snail-paced information on movement of trains? Help is expected soon with the Railways going ahead with the Rs 110 crore satellite-based system to replace manual tracking of trains to provide its exact position on real-time basis. The real-time train information system (RTIS) aims to provide train running [...]
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A key official has promised action on setting up in Bangalore the southern regional branch of the New Delhi-located IT Appellate Tribunal dealing with cyber crimes once the state offered the infrastructure. "Bangalore being hub of IT Sector, it should also be provided with sufficient judicial phenomenon such as the Appellate Tribunal." Till the Tribunal [...]
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Google officials say they will give the Nelson Mandela Foundation $1.25 million to digitalize documents, audio recordings and film clips from Mandela’s life and publish them on the internet. Google spokesman Luke Mckend said on 8th March, 2011 that the foundation will scan more than 10,000 of Mandela’s personal records, including notes he wrote during [...]
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