Two young hackers were convicted in Germany on Thursday of stealing new songs from stars such as Lady Gaga and Mariah Carey and offering them for sale on the Internet, a court said. The local court in the western city of Duisburg found the defendants, aged 18 and 23, guilty of dozens of counts of violating copyrights and hacking confidential data, a spokesman said. Their names we
Citigroup Inc said a credit card data breach that took place in May affected over 360,000 accounts, around 80 per cent more than the initial figure revealed by the bank last week. In a statement issued late last night, Citigroup said "a total of 360,083 North America Citi-branded credit cards were affected. Only accounts issued in the US were impacted." C
Yahoo! India, the leading digital media company, plans to take its `Learn with Yahoo` programme to schools in the near future. Yahoo! India Senior Director (Marketing) Nitin Mathur told newspersons here that based on the findings of internal research, the company chose an educative route to help users discover the power of the internet and started its `Learn with Yahoo programme`
Looking to provide an online platform for non-resident Indians seeking employment in their home country, Monster.com on Thursday launched a new job portal. Monster.com is a leading online employment portal with an extensive global footprint. The new website, `Return2Home`, would be mainly for NRI job seekers from the US, UK, Canada, Gulf and South East Asia, who ar
The British government has been accused of spying on WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, sparking an outrage among civil rights campaigners in the country. A video released by WikiLeaks claim that three cameras have been erected outside the entrance of his temporary home in Ellingham Hall, Norfolk, to keep track of people visiting him. "We suddenly noticed them
SNK ETax Solutions on Wednesday launched `Taxsum.com`, a portal offering browser-based digital signature for online filing of returns and computation of tax, for all categories of assesses. "Our portal can compute tax for all categories of assesses who file returns on ITR-1 to ITR-6. It`s the first portal in India to offer browser based digital signature and enables filing o
In a bonanza for the loss making telecom PSU, state-run MTNL on Wednesday received over Rs 177 crore as income tax refund for the year 2010-11. "MTNL has received a refund order amounting to Rs 177.76 crore from the Income Tax Department pertaining to Assessment Year 2010-11," MTNL said in a filing to the Bombay Stock Exchange. MTNL had won the case in th
Communications firm Hitah on Wednesday launched its mobile security application, which allows users to protect their messages and phonebook details. "The application, called Peanut, has the ability to protect information and encrypt data on the phone`s handset providing privacy and security," Hitah Chairman M S Murty told reporters. The encryption
Spice Mobile, a B K Modi-promoted Spice Group company, may soon enter in to a tie-up with a leading chip maker to manufacture low-cost tablets and smartphones. Dilip Modi, Managing Director of Spice Mobility, on Wednesday said the company is also in discussions with a couple of companies in Nigeria and South Africa for acquisition. Spice Global is actively considering listing in
Direct-to-Home (DTH) company Airtel digital TV on Wednesday announced the launch of interactive service iKisaan designed in Hindi for farmers. "iKisaan is a pioneering initiative for rural India. With over 60 per cent of our customers coming in from rural areas, applications like these will create a stronger connect with our customers," Sugato Banerji, Airtel digital TV
Come October and small Indian businesses will be able to reach out to worldwide customers through a new business-to-business IT portal being designed on the lines of Alibaba.com by the National Small Industries Corporation (NSIC). By listing themselves on the NSIC portal for an annual fee of Rs 5,000, small and medium enterprises (SMEs) can gain access to a big database of 2,50,0
Business solutions provider Aditya Birla Minacs has been appointed as a value-added reseller for Epicor Software Corporation`s next-generation enterprise resource planning (ERP) solutions in India and the Middle East. "We are delighted to appoint Minacs as a value-added reseller for the Middle East and India," Epicor Vice-President (Sales) Basil Daniells said.
Software consulting and managed services company Ramco Systems, which is a part of the USD 875 million Ramco Group, on Wednesday announced the launch of their OnDemand-Analytics and Gateway products on Cloud computing. Ramco OnDemand-Analytics is a pre-engineered solution by which the customers can go live on cloud computing. Existing customers can avail th
Hyderabad-based Razi Healthcare has announced that it will adopt cloud computing solutions offered by Tata Consultancy Services`s (TCS) iON. iON is a unit of TCS that provides cloud computing solutions. "With the help of iON we intend to modernise patient care profiles with electronic medical records and augment medical services for long-term preservation, easy access and mo
Malaysia on Wednesday went on high alert after an anonymous hackers threatened to attack government`s official website. Comunications Minister Rais Yatim said the country`s cyber security authorities were working towards preventing a planned attack on Malaysian government website www.malaysia.gov.my. However, he declined to elaborate on the preventive actions, sayi
A group of hackers, who had earlier attacked the US Senate`s portal, have now claimed that they have breached into the CIA`s website. The website of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) faced problems in loading allegedly due to the breach. The hacker group LulZSec tweeted yesterday "Tango down - cia.", claiming that they were behind the cyber atta
Internet giant Google has partnered with SolarCity, solar power installation company, to create a USD 280 million fund for financing residential solar projects. In a joint statement, SolarCity and Google "announced the creation of a new USD 280 million fund to finance residential solar projects". The deal marks Google`s first investment in residential and
The Tamil Internet Conference 2011 that begins in the US on Thursday will discuss web assisted Tamil teaching and learning among others. "With the increasing number of Tamil users in the internet and modern gadgets, this conference will bring together software developers, academicians and users of these softwares," Badri Seshadri, one of the organisers who shortlisted t
The number of people using mobile phone for work will grow by 53 per cent over the next four years to reach 205 million by 2015, says a study by IT industry research company Springboard Research. "We spoke to top authorities of 55 large and medium size companies in India and found that most of their are using mobile phone for work and interesting many of them have smartphone
Public sector HLL Lifecare, country?s largest blood-bag manufacturer, has launched a SMS campaign on blood donation, targeting to reach over 5.5 million customers of BSNL in Kerala. The campaign, launched by state Health Minister Adoor Prakash on the Blood Donation Day on Tuesday in the state capital, was meant to convey the importance of blood donation as a vital voluntary
