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Users of Google’s new social-media utility Buzz are claiming it could allow anyone to see who they have been e-mailing.
The world’s number one search engine claims Buzz lets users “share updates, photos, videos, and more.” But users have discovered that unless privacy settings are changed, Buzz publicly shares details of users’ contacts.
When creating a new [...]
TOKYO: The Internet plays an increasingly vital role as a forum of public opinion in China as other forms of media remain under tight Communist Party control, though government restrictions on the Web will likely intensify, experts said at a recent symposium held in Tokyo.
The recent threat by the U.S. search engine giant Google to [...]
NEW YORK: Google Inc is tapping its huge network of Gmail users and web surfers to create a Buzz that it hopes will help it catch up with online social networking leaders Facebook and Twitter.
The world’s No. 1 search engine on Tuesday launched Google Buzz, which allows users to quickly share messages, web links and [...]
MIAMI: NASA will become “an agency of pipe dreams and fairy tales” under proposals by President Obama that would kill off plans for returning Man to the Moon, critics said yesterday.
Spelling out a controversial new vision for space exploration as part of his $3.8 trillion (£2.4 trillion) budget proposal to Congress yesterday, Mr Obama called [...]
The US Air Force says a missile-intercept test failed when a long-range missile launched from California missed a target missile launched from a Pacific island because of radar problems.
A statement posted on the Vandenberg Air Force Base Web site says the target missile was launched from the Kwajalein Atoll in the Marshall Islands on Sunday [...]
ISLAMABAD: The National Database and Registration Authority (NADRA) has been designated as the Asian leader for providing identity-based multi-biometric technology solutions.
“NADRA’s e-govt solutions are relevant to Europe, Central and Eastern Europe, Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) and Russia who look at the success story of NADRA and learn how to use it as a strategic [...]
BANGALORE: India will launch its first manned space mission in 2016 in a bid to match space pioneers such as Russia and the United States, a top official said Wednesday.
The government had already approved plans for a human space flight project by the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), and last year gave the go-ahead for [...]
KARACHI: The lives of thousands of passengers are at stake owing to a major security flaw at the country’s busiest airport, technical experts have warned.
The Airport Security Force is continuing to use a bomb detector at the Jinnah International Airport despite the fact that British government and scientists have declared the device “not suitable for [...]
On Monday night in San Francisco an information technology consultant named Austin Heap reported on his blog that the official Web site of Iran’s president, Ahmadinejad.ir, had been attacked by hackers.
Mr. Heap, who has been active in the effort to provide Iranians with tools to circumvent Internet censorship this year, wrote that “someone seems to [...]
A German computer scientist has published details of the secret code used to protect the conversations of more than 4bn mobile phone users.
Karsten Nohl, working with other experts, has spent the past five months cracking the algorithm used to encrypt calls using GSM technology.
GSM is the most popular standard for mobile networks around the world.
The [...]
NEW YORK: US scientists believe they have uncovered one of the mechanisms that enables the brain to form memories.
Synapses – where brain cells connect with each other – have long been known to be the key site of information exchange and storage in the brain.
But researchers say they have now learnt how molecules at the [...]
Razzaq & Salman running for captainship in T20 World Cup
Pakistan sees a massive 36.3 per cent rise in inflation
Oil crisis awaits as PSO faces default for providing cheap fuel to US-led NATO froces in Afghanistan
PCB spins again: Yousuf, Younis may be considered for selection
Muhammad Yousuf & Younis Khan suspended indefinitely from playing cricket, others heavily fined
Eight powerful cartels refuse to cough up Rs 7 billion in fines and penalties
Waqar Younis, Wasim Akram & Ijaz Ahmed are being utilized after clearance: Ijaz Butt
