London: Twitter has entered into an alliance with Russian search engine Yandex. With this tie up, Yandex will tap new tweets in its search results almost in no time. Among various social media tools, Twitter has been recognized as significant while delivering real-time information. After this agreement, Yandex will have access to all the [...]
Canada’s political parties fear U.S. intelligence agencies may breach their privacy and get secret information from a cloud-based Web site Salesforce.com Under the laws in the United States, the government can ask any Web site to reveal all information to them without informing the concerned person or party, revealed James Williamson, information technology coordinator, who [...]
Democrat of Connecticut, Senator Richard Blumenthal presented a bill seeking protection of citizens’ private data from online data breaches. The legislation would punish companies and Web sites for breach of privacy in case the mishandle customers information. Senator Richard Blumenthal andSenator Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut have always emphasized on securing online security and demanded for [...]
Firefighters saved what could have been nuclear tragedy when they beat back fire that was engulfing Los Alamos National Laboratory which was the preeminent nuclear facility in the country. This has caused panic in Los Alamos which had forced the authority to order for the immediate evacuation of the people who are living in the [...]
The United States House Energy and Commerce Committee asked the mobile operators to explain their phone-tracking policy. The respondents’ operators include Microsoft, Nokia, RIM, HP, Apple and Google. The Committee asked to explain their policy on data collection, its storage and security. Also the operators have to explain how a person can get himself exempted [...]
US Congress is likely to obstacle Apple over technological transparency issues. According to legal experts, Apple is also likely to file a lawsuit regarding the same seeking justice. Sen. Al Franken from a new privacy panel questioned Apple and asked to explain the reasons for tracking iPhone users’ locations. The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) will [...]
Yukiya Amano, Chief of the U.N.’s nuclear energy agency reveals that Japan is trying its best to cool the nuclear reactors after its cooling systems failed following devastating earthquake and tsunami in the country. The nuk chief stated this after observing the situation in Tokyo and a talk with the Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan. [...]
NASA reported that the space shuttle Discovery docked with the International Space Station successfully on Saturday. The docking was riddled with a series of problems and that has pushed the crew’s schedule. The express logistic carrier now will be installed only on Sunday. Hatches linking the shuttle to the station opened on Saturday at 4:16 [...]
Despite the thrust on deficit reduction President Obama is keen on investment on research and technology. To forward his high-tech and education agenda he made quick tour of the West Coast. He toured a semiconductor plant at Oregon and before that dined with head honchos of the Silicon Valley. While Republicans have asked for budget [...]
Hillary Rodham Clinton, US Secretary of State finalizes deal with Sergey Lavrov, Russia’s Foreign Minister on Security Policy in Munich, Germany on Feb. 5. The two nations will implement the new treaty– new Strategic arms reduction treaty (START) to restrict the number of nuclear weapons they can possess. Hillary Clinton and Sergei Lavrov traded authorization [...]