Technology

Twitter's censor move with eye on China?

2012-01-27T23:03:00.000-08:00

Why Asia may not be easy for Apple

2012-01-26T23:47:00.000-08:00

Putting a human cost on the iPad

2012-01-25T23:21:00.000-08:00

Anti-SOPA, PIPA protests to continue

2012-01-19T10:24:00.000-08:00

The Govt, Army Chief battle now a political one?

2012-01-17T19:04:00.000-08:00

Delhi Court issues summons to Google, Facebook headquarters for objectionable content

2012-01-15T23:29:00.000-08:00

Delhi court sent an invitation to the headquarters of foreign Internet companies, including Google, Facebook, Microsoft and Yahoo on Friday to check your private event, objectionable content on the web. Indian operations a few of these companies had previously said that they are not responsible for its content, because the parent companies to run their websites.

A local newspaper editor Vinay Rai religious sites found that he considered to be offensive, and complained to the court in Delhi, prompting the Additional Metropolitan Magistrate Sudesh Kumar issued notices to 21 sites on the web December 2011.

In an appeal earlier this week, Google India said in Delhi High Court that it was not responsible for the company websites, run by the U.S. parent company of the pass-the-buck stand that many Internet companies have when sued in India. Facebook petition to the High Court.

As the Indian operations of foreign Internet companies threw up their hands and said they were not responsible, Rai sought permission from a judge to serve a notice of a foreign entity in India through the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, he said Friday.

The judge has asked the foreign entities and Indian Internet companies mentioned in the complaint to appear in court 13th March, Rai said.

Google declined to comment, a new development. Yahoo also declined to comment as the matter was still in court. Facebook and Microsoft did not immediately respond to requests for comment.

Case before Magistrate Kumar has been viewed exactly the Indian government has also recently expressed concerns about inappropriate content, including the religious content of websites.

Indian Communications and IT, Kapil Sibal told local TV channels in December that allows the contents of some Internet companies were not able to live up to the laws that they enforce their own standards of your community. When asked, the Ministry, in some cases to remove certain offensive content, Internet companies declined to quote your community standards, Sibal said.

Some newspapers said Sibal asked Internet companies pre-screen the content before it is inappropriate to the Internet. The minister told TV channels that he did not expect, but the Internet company wanted to develop a framework that was objectionable or inflammatory content can be removed quickly.

Indian Information Technology Act requires intermediaries like Internet service providers to remove content that is found objectionable within 36 hours of notification of the content. On foreign Internet companies fall in line with local laws might be just the greatest.

"As Chinese, we will block all such sites," Judge High Suresh Kait said Thursday, while allowing Google and Facebook application to stay proceedings, Judge Sudesh Kumar. He asked counsel Facebook and Google in India to develop a mechanism to keep under control and to remove the "offensive and objectionable" material on your Web pages according to Press Trust of India report.

Article Source:- http://www.pcworld.in/news/delhi-court-issues-summons-google-facebook-headquarters-objectionable-content-61322012

Global tech sales to surpass $1 tn in 2012: Forecast

2012-01-09T04:16:00.000-08:00

Traffic cops rethink Auto Expo at Pragati Maidan

2012-01-07T03:17:00.000-08:00

RE 60: Bajaj Auto unveils first four-wheeler; plans to target over 5 mn 3-wheelers

2012-01-04T03:05:00.000-08:00

Verizon: Recent 4G LTE outages are 'growing pains'

2011-12-30T21:50:00.000-08:00

Verizon: Here's what we're doing to fix our 4G network

2011-12-29T22:27:00.001-08:00

Wireless company statement said today that despite the hiccups, he has seen a 99 percent availability for its 4G LTE network problems that have cropped up relationship with each other.

"Each case is different from a technical standpoint," the company said. "Our engineers have successfully diagnosed with trigger events in the past, and they are not re-occurred. We also work diligently to improve the technical problems that affect our clients, before Network."

Still, Verizon said it plans to make some significant changes to its network in order to avoid future disruptions of the Gulf. One of them is falling apart in your network to keep the damage to spread from one area to another.

"One of the many measures that have been or will be the following: geographic segmentation, which allows us to isolate, contain, and to improve network performance, deployment and maintenance of most customers, when it is developed."

Verizon also said it is rolling out a "software fixes" to enhance performance and improve reliability.

Yesterday's outage, which was resolved overnight, the company said in its third month of December was the Company's 4G LTE network outage was 6th December, leaving customers throughout the U.S. intermittent access to 4G data. This particular problem was fixed and a half days. Another outage occurred last week, Verizon customers' problems, such as 4G and 3G networks.

During all three of these outages, affected users said they had problems connecting to the Verizon 4G LTE and 3G networks, but Verizon was told the 3G data access. In today's statement the company made a concession that there was at least slow down some of the "clients can not connect to the 3G network as quickly as we would have liked."

Article Source:- http://news.cnet.com/8301-1035_3-57350018-94/verizon-heres-what-were-doing-to-fix-our-4g-network/

Despite RIM takeover talk, hurdles would be high

2011-12-28T23:53:00.000-08:00