India has taken up web snooping issue with US Envoy: Sources

17 Jun, 2013, 8:53 am IST General

Acting on its concern and surprise at the internet data mining by US intelligence agencies, including from India, the Indian government has taken up the issue with the US envoy... More

Bigflix's to beef up movie library size

17 Jun, 2013, 8:34 am IST Web services

With the number of registered users on its website touching around one million and Internet connectivity increasing in tier-two cities, Big Flicks Pvt. Ltd. is planning to increase the number of movie titles... More

Google may face block in Pakistan over objectionable YouTube clip

11 Jun, 2013, 12:46 pm IST tech2 News Staff Web services

If Google fails to remove blasphemous and objectionable content from YouTube, it could face a block in Pakistan, warned the nation's new IT minister... More

Google, Facebook deny providing direct access to government agencies

07 Jun, 2013, 10:25 am IST Web services

Major tech companies including Apple Inc, Google and Facebook Inc on Thursday said they do not provide any government agency with “direct access”... More

Apple denies giving government 'direct access' to servers

07 Jun, 2013, 8:08 am IST Web services

Apple Inc on Thursday said it does not provide any government agency with direct access to its servers, ... More

U.S. agents tapping servers of leading Internet companies: Report

07 Jun, 2013, 8:04 am IST Web services

The National Security Agency and the FBI are tapping directly into the central servers of nine leading ... More

YouTube mobile advertising sales triples in six months

06 Jun, 2013, 3:37 pm IST tech2 News Staff Web services

YouTube has tripled advertising sales on mobile devices in the past six months, according to Bloomberg... More

Bangladesh lifts ban on YouTube, blocked after anti-Islam film

06 Jun, 2013, 12:24 pm IST Web services

Bangladesh on Wednesday lifted a ban on video-sharing site YouTube which has been blocked since September after an online anti-Islam movie spawned violent protests across the Muslim world... More

YouTube uniformly rolls out its One Channel design

06 Jun, 2013, 8:27 am IST tech2 News Staff Web services 1 Comments

All YouTube channels will bear the new One Channel design starting today, in line with an earlier announcement. For those not in the know, last month YouTube More

Twitter revamps profile editing functionality by allowing inline changes

01 Jun, 2013, 5:54 pm IST Anujeet Majumdar Social Networking

Twitter has revised the way its profile editing functionality works. Now all functions can now be done inline while on your Twitter profile. The revamped More

Shazam now available for Windows Phone 8

31 May, 2013, 3:29 pm IST Nishtha Kanal Windows Mobile

Music discovery app Shazam has finally made its way to Windows Phone 8 devices, just a week after the launch of an iPad app. The optimized version for the More

YouTube to help you "Maximize Your Channel" for free

31 May, 2013, 1:55 pm IST tech2 News Staff Windows Mobile

Do you have your own channel on YouTube, or aspire to make the existing one more successful? Starting June 3, YouTube will be offering its Maximize Your More

YouTube for Windows Phone? Get more users to the platform first: Sundar Pichai

31 May, 2013, 9:48 am IST Nishtha Kanal Windows Mobile

Google and Microsoft’s strained relationship has seen regular outbursts in the past six months. Most times, Google’s apps are the bone of More

Smartphone users check their phones an average of 150 times a day

30 May, 2013, 7:39 pm IST Anujeet Majumdar Smartphones

According to new data revealed in the Meeker report, most smartphone users now check their phones a reported150 times a day.... More

CNN, BuzzFeed join hands for YouTube news channel

28 May, 2013, 5:13 pm IST Anujeet Majumdar Smartphones

Social news site and meme aggregator BuzzFeed is coming together with CNN and YouTube to create a new, online-video channel that will be unveiled later today.... More

The billion dollar bazaar – top 10 buyouts of the digital world

27 May, 2013, 5:12 pm IST Anuradha Shetty Smartphones 3 Comments

Here’s a rundown of the 10 of the most expensive Internet buyouts in the recent past, complete with our pick for the highest spenders. More

Google, Microsoft reconcile to work on a YouTube app for Windows Phone

25 May, 2013, 9:44 am IST Nishtha Kanal Smartphones

At last! Here’s the moment Windows Phone users have been waiting for since a long time. Google and Microsoft have finally gone down the kiss-and-make up More

Microsoft meets Google midway with YouTube for Windows Phone app update

24 May, 2013, 8:42 am IST Nishtha Kanal Smartphones 1 Comments

Microsoft has updated YouTube for Windows 8 in a move to address some of the concerns Google had about the app. The refresh comes on the More

iOS 7 could see deeper Flickr, Vimeo integration

22 May, 2013, 12:59 pm IST Nishtha Kanal iOS

Post integration with Facebook and Twitter in the recent past, Apple is looking to integrate – surprise, surprise – Flickr and Vimeo within iOS. More

Don't mess up Tumblr: Ex-YouTuber advises Yahoo!

21 May, 2013, 4:53 pm IST Nishtha Kanal iOS

So the inevitable has happened and Yahoo! has acquired Tumblr for a sum of $1.1 billion. The biggest worry for all parties now involved is to ensure a smooth More